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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.
Shao’s friend and fellow poet Xu Zhimo hailed him as ‘China’s very own Verlaine’, and Shao republished his poems with some new ones in a volume with the Baudelairean title Flower-Like Evil. The scholar Erich Fruehauf has documented how Western images of the ‘exotic orient’ were reciprocated by ‘Western exoticism’ among the ...
Jul 19, 2023 · Shao has been described by a phalanx of scholars as the most seriously underestimated modern cultural Chinese figure. This collection of his writings joins several recent publications that aim to raise Shao’s literary and historical profile.
Feb 5, 2020 · The Verse of Shao Xunmei (Homa & Sekey Books, 2016) is the first English version of Shao Xunmei who was a well-known poet in 1930s Shanghai and one of the best friends of Xu Zhimo, famous for his “Second Farewell to Cambridge”.
This observation regarding the two artists’ Modernist styles is Lu Shaofei’s, who noted in particular Zhang Guangyu’s careful study of the Ming dynasty painter Chen Laolian (1598-1652), best known for his human figures in woodblock book illustrations.
Jun 24, 2016 · Shao Xunmei (1898–1973) wrote under the noms de plume Shao Haowen, Shao Haoping, Shao Wen and Guo Ming. His grandfather was the Qing diplomat Shao Youlian and his mother was the daughter of the grand official and trader Sheng Xuanhuai.
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.
