New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

WRITER

Xu Zhimo

1897 - 1931

Photo of Xu Zhimo

Icon of person Xu Zhimo

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 292,960 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Xu Zhimo is the 2,570th most popular writer (up from 2,746th in 2019), the 628th most popular biography from China (down from 611th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Chinese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Page views of Xu Zhimos by language


Among WRITERS

Among writers, Xu Zhimo ranks 2,570 out of 5,755Before him are William Ernest Henley, Nodar Dumbadze, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, FM-2030, Uladzimir Karatkievich, and Harold Robbins. After him are Polemon I of Pontus, Cornelis de Bruijn, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Benjamin Fondane, Abu-l-'Atahiya, and Horace McCoy.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Xu Zhimo ranks 134Before him are August Heissmeyer, Tan Malaka, Gaspar Cassadó, Ram Prasad Bismil, Edith Head, and Marian Anderson. After him are Horace McCoy, Traicho Kostov, Lazare Ponticelli, Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, John Bagot Glubb, and Natacha Rambova. Among people deceased in 1931, Xu Zhimo ranks 65Before him are Nicolae Paulescu, Samad bey Mehmandarov, Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, Felix Blumenfeld, Gustaf Kossinna, and Osachi Hamaguchi. After him are Jean-Louis Forain, Arnold Bennett, Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Rachel Bluwstein, Henri Mathias Berthelot, and Frank Wigglesworth Clarke.

Others Born in 1897

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1931

Go to all Rankings

In China

Among people born in China, Xu Zhimo ranks 628 out of 1,392Before him are Cheng Pei-pei (1946), Bo Yibo (1908), Yuan Zhen (779), Lee Hoi-chuen (1901), Zao Wou-Ki (1920), and Hu Hanmin (1879). After him are Thonmi Sambhota (618), Guan Hanqing (1210), Ngawang Namgyal (1594), He Long (1896), Hai Rui (1514), and Jiong of Xia (null).

Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Xu Zhimo ranks 62Before him are Consort Ban (-48), Tian Han (1898), Jung Chang (1952), Han Suyin (1917), Lu Ji (261), and Yuan Zhen (779). After him are Guan Hanqing (1210), Zhou Daguan (1266), Tang Xianzu (1550), Sogyal Rinpoche (1947), Yuan Mei (1716), and François Cheng (1929).