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Shao Xunmei (Chinese: 邵洵美; Shanghainese: Zau Sinmay; 1906–1968) was a Chinese poet and publisher. He was a contributing writer for T'ien Hsia Monthly, and also was the owner of Modern Sketch. He originated from Shanghai.
China’s Swinburne: the Enigma of Shao Xunmei’s Life and Art - The London Magazine. In both China and the West, very little has been written on Shao Xunmei. Googling his name leads to a few articles chronicling his affair with the American writer Emily Hahn, while a search on Amazon results in several studies with chapters about him, plus ...
Oct 28, 2017 · Only several poems by the now forgotten 1930s Shanghai poet Shao Xunmei (1906-1968) have previously been rendered into English, making our translation of his two major volumes a first. We have long considered Shao well worth translating, owing as much to his colorful artistic persona as to his verse.
Shao Xunmei (邵洵美, 1906-1968) is a fascinating figure. A poet, translator, critical essayist, and editor, his cosmopolitan, decadent, deeply Shanghainese voice both influenced and, in some ways, epitomized a certain strand of Republican-era literature.
Jul 19, 2023 · Shao Xunmei, poet, essayist, publisher, and printer, played a significant role in the publication and dissemination of journals and pictorial magazines in Shanghai during the 1920s and 1930s.
Jun 24, 2016 · Shao Xunmei was heavily influenced by the British and French symbolist and aestheticist-decadent schools of the end of the nineteenth century. He relates how he discovered his revered Swinburne from the Greek Sapho , “From Swinburne I discovered the Pre-Raphaelite group and then from them, accessed Baudelaire and Paul Verlain.”
In A Modern Miscellany: Shanghai Cartoon Artists, Shao Xunmei’s Circle and the Travels of Jack Chen, 1926-1938 Paul Bevan explores how the cartoon (manhua) emerged from its place in the Chinese modern art world to become a propaganda tool in the hands of left-wing artists.