Gentle Youth's Affection: Xu Zhimo's Essays

Author: Xu Zhimo
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Little Pearl May Fourth Collection. Xu Zhimo (1897-1931) was from Haining, Zhejiang. He studied at Tianjin Beiyang University and later transferred to Peking University. In 1918, he went to the United States for studies. During this period, he was exposed to bourgeois democratic thought and humanitarianism. Xu Zhimo began writing poetry in 1921, imitating the British aesthetic movement poets and showing a tendency toward art for art's sake. He traveled across Europe with the Indian poet Tagore. After returning to China, he wrote many excellent poems and prose. In terms of art, he demonstrated bright and delicate features.