Xu Zhi Mo

He was born in Xiashi , in Zhejiang province, and died in Ji'nan in the Shandong provence. In 1918 , after studying at Peking University (now a.k.a. Beijing University ) he traveled to the United States to study Economics and Political Science at Columbia University in New York City . Finding the States "intolerable", he left in 1920 to study at Cambridge University in England where he fell in love with English Romantic poetry like that of Keats and Shelley . In 1922 he went back to China and became a leader of the modern poetry movement. When the India n Poet Rabindranath Tagore visited China , he played the part of oral Interpreter . His literary ideology was mostly pro-western, and pro-vernacular. He was one of the first Chinese writers to successfully naturalize Western romantic forms into modern Chinese poetry. He worked as an editor and professor at several schools before dying in a plane crash on November 19, 1931 in Ji'nan , Shandong while flying from Nanjing to Beijing . He left behind four collections of verse and several volumes of translations from various languages.

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Encyclopædia Britannica 2005 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD, article- "Hsü Chih-mo"

There is a book titled "Bound Feet & Western Dress" written by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang which record the memoir of the aurthor's grand-aunt, Chang Yu-i, who at the age of 15 was arranged to married to Hsu Chih-mo as his first wife and later divorced with him after the birth of their second child. "Bound Feet & Western Dress" is a dual memoir of the aurthor's life as an American-Chinese, who suffered a sense of lost with her own culture in the West and Chang Yu-i, who born at the turn of the century of China and later moved to the West. This is definitely a page-turner and every details of Hsu Chih-Mo's early life in the West is being recorded accurately.

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