Background
Zhimo Xu was born on January 15, 1897 in Haining, Zhejiang, China.
徐志摩
Zhimo Xu was born on January 15, 1897 in Haining, Zhejiang, China.
Xu Zhimo graduated from the famous Hangzhou High School. Xu Zhimo graduated from the famous Hangzhou High School. In 1916, he went to Peiyang University (now Tianjin University) to study Law. In 1917, he moved to Peking University (PKU) due to the law department of Peiyang University merging into PKU.
In 1918, Zhimo Xu traveled to the United States to study political and social science with a minor in history at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts where he earned his bachelor's degree. Shortly afterward, he enrolled at Columbia University in New York to pursue a graduate degree in economics and politics in 1919.
In 1922 Zhimo Xu returned to China and became a leading figure of the modern poetry movement. In 1923, he founded the Crescent Moon Society. 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 being killed in a plane crash on November 19, 1931 near Tai'an, Shandong while flying on a Stinson Detroiter from Nanjing to Beijing. Zhimo Xu left behind four collections of verse and several volumes of translations from various languages.
(Chinese Edition)
Zhimo Xu married Zhang Youyi on October 10, 1915. This was an arranged marriage that went against Xu's belief in free and simple love. Although Zhang gave birth to two sons, Xu still couldn't accept her.
While in London in 1921, Zhimo Xu met and fell in love with Lin Huiyin (the daughter of Lin Changmin). He divorced Zhang in March 1922. Lin and Xu became close friends. However, she was already betrothed to Liang Sicheng by his father.
Xu's last lover was Lu Xiaoman, who was married to Wang Geng, a friend of Xu. The marriage had been arranged by her parents and she felt trapped in this loveless marriage. When Xu and Lu met, they quickly bonded over the similarity of their respective experiences with arranged marriages. When it came to be known that they were in love, both were scorned by their parents and friends. Lu divorced her husband in 1925 and married Xu the next year. Their honeymoon period did not last long however and Lu gradually became more and more depressed. Because Lu was wasteful and Xu's parents refused to lend them money, Xu had to take several jobs in different cities to keep up with the lifestyle Lu desired. She was widowed when Xu died in an airplane crash.