Hsu Chih-mo (徐志摩, pinyin: Xú Zhìmó) (January 15, 1897-November 19, 1931) was a twentieth-century Chinese poet. Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; Hanyu Pinyin: , lit. ... January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ...

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 Indian 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. Zhejiang (Chinese: 浙江; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Che-chiang; Postal System Pinyin: Chehkiang or Chekiang) is an eastern coastal province of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Location within China Jinan (Simplified Chinese: 济南; Traditional Chinese: 濟南; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chi-nan) is the capital and a sub-provincial city of Shandong province in China. ... Shandong (Simplified Chinese: 山东; Traditional Chinese: 山東; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Shan-tung) is a coastal province of eastern Peoples Republic of China. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Peking University 博学审问慎思明辨 Peking University or Beijing University (Simplified Chinese: 北京大学; Traditional Chinese: 北京大學; Hanyu Pinyin: ), colloquially known as Beida (北大, BÄ›idà). Established in 1898, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China. ... Peking University 博学审问慎思明辨 Peking University or Beijing University (pinyin Běijīng Dàxué), colloquially Beida (北大, pinyin běidà), is one of the most prestigious universities in China. ... Buyers bargain for good prices while sellers put forth their best front in Chichicastenango Market, Guatemala. ... Political science is a social science discipline that deals with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ... 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Romanticism was a secular and intellectual movement in the history of ideas that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. ... John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets in the English Romantic movement. ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... A poet exists within a cultural and intellectual tradition and usually writes in a specific language, but the qualities of good poetry are to some extent timeless and address issues common to all humanity. ... রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর — Gurudev. ... Interpreter can mean one of the following: In communication, an interpreter is a person whose role is to facilitate dialogue between two parties that do not use the same language. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Location within China Jinan (Simplified Chinese: 济南; Traditional Chinese: 濟南; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chi-nan) is the capital and a sub-provincial city of Shandong province in China. ... Shandong (Simplified Chinese: 山东; Traditional Chinese: 山東; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Shan-tung) is a coastal province of eastern Peoples Republic of China. ... Nanjing (Chinese: 南京; Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Nan-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Nanking), is the capital of Chinas Jiangsu Province and a city with a prominent place in Chinese history and culture. ... (help· info) (IPA peiË© tɕɪŋ˦), a city in northern China, is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...

References

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.