Gu Cheng

Gu Cheng was born in Beijing on 24 September 1956, the son of the poet Gu Gong. In 1969 his family was sent to the countryside in Shandong, where he raised pigs. Back in Beijing in 1974, he did odd jobs, carpentry among them, then joined the group around the journal Jintian, from which so-called obscure poetry emerged. He married Xie Ye in 1983, left for Europe in 1987 and settled on Waiheke Island, in New Zealand, where he taught Chinese at the University of Auckland. There he killed his wife and then took his own life, on 8 October 1993.

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• PoetryOne Generation一代人Gu Cheng · 1980Literature