Author · China
Xu Zhimo
Died in 1931
Xu Zhimo was born on 15 January 1897 in Zhejiang, into a well-off family of Haining. After studying at Peking University, he left in 1918 for the United States, passed through Columbia, then in 1921 went to Cambridge, where English Romantic poetry made him decide to write. Back in China in 1922, he founded the Crescent Moon Society the following year, acted as interpreter for Tagore and taught at several universities. His marriage to Lu Xiaoman caused a scandal in literary circles according to Chinawriter. He died on 19 November 1931 in a plane crash, in Shandong.