WRITER

Xu Zhimo

1897 - 1931

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Xu Zhimo (徐志摩, Wu Chinese pronunciation: [ʑi tsɿ mu], Mandarin: [ɕy̌ ʈʂî mwǒ], 15 January 1897 – 19 November 1931) was a Chinese romantic poet and writer of modern Chinese poetry who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Xu Zhimo has received more than 315,519 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Xu Zhimo is the 2,509th most popular writer (up from 2,562nd in 2019), the 649th most popular biography from China (down from 627th in 2019) and the 64th most popular Chinese Writer.

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  • 320k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Zai bie Kangqiao
1993
Correspondence
Conduct of life, Correspondence, History
1959
Xu Zhimo quan ji
1966
Wo suo zhi dao de Kangqiao
Chinese essays
2001
Poems
Chinese poetry
1981
Hsü Chih-mo chʻüan chi
1966

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Xu Zhimo ranks 2,509 out of 7,302. Before him are Annie M. G. Schmidt, Alice B. Toklas, Gustave Aimard, Bulleh Shah, René Crevel, and Theodore Prodromos. After him are Ron Kovic, Okakura Kakuzō, Ewald Christian von Kleist, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Donald E. Westlake, and Bella Rosenfeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Xu Zhimo ranks 132. Before him are Ernst-Günther Baade, Manlio Brosio, Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, Štefan Tiso, Valentin Kataev, and Traicho Kostov. After him are Peter Högl, Nima Yooshij, Edith Head, Georgios Grivas, Wilfred Bion, and August Heissmeyer. Among people deceased in 1931, Xu Zhimo ranks 60. Before him are Felix Blumenfeld, Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Melvil Dewey, William Bates, Princess Isabella of Croÿ, and David Bruce. After him are Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme, Osachi Hamaguchi, Louise, Princess Royal, Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, Jean-Louis Forain, and Hanns Hörbiger.

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In China

Among people born in China, Xu Zhimo ranks 649 out of 1,610. Before him are Yuan Longping (1930), Yan Liben (600), Ma Huan (1380), Bo Gu (1907), Peng Zhen (1902), and Yuan Mei (1716). After him are Emperor Mingyuan of Northern Wei (392), Jung Chang (1952), Wang Huning (1955), Li Bingbing (1973), Jimmy Wang Yu (1943), and Empress Wang (-8).

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Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Xu Zhimo ranks 64. Before him are Ding Ling (1904), Xue Tao (768), Zhou Daguan (1266), Ai Qing (1910), Guan Hanqing (1210), and Yuan Mei (1716). After him are Jung Chang (1952), Sima Tan (-165), Tian Han (1898), Lu Ji (261), Sogyal Rinpoche (1947), and Tang Xianzu (1550).

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