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Guo Xiaochuan

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Guo Xiaochuan
Native name
郭小川
BornGuo Enda
(1919-09-02)September 2, 1919
Fengshan, Rehe, Republic of China
DiedOctober 18, 1976(1976-10-18) (aged 57)
Anyang, Henan
LanguageChinese
NationalityChinese
Alma materNortheastern University
Genrepoetry
Literary movement"political lyric poetry"
Years active1940s - 1960s

Guo Xiaochuan (Chinese: 郭小川; 1919-1976), original name Guo Enda, was a Chinese poet. He joined the Eighth Route Army in 1937, and began to write free-verse poems during the Second Sino-Japanese War. After 1949, he worked for the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.[citation needed]

Guo's best known poems includes One and Eight (on which Zhang Junzhao's film of the same name is based), Tree Songs on Forested Areas, Forest of Sugar Cane -- Gree Gauze Curtain and Gazing at the Starring Sky. Along with He Jingzhi, he is considered as one of the major practitioners of "political lyric poetry" style. However, Guo's poems care more about individual perception, and some of his works were strictly criticized in China in the late 1950s.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ Chang, Kang-i Sun; Owen, Stephen, eds. (2010). The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature: From 1375. Cambridge University Press. p. 603. ISBN 9780521855594.
  2. ^ Hong, Zicheng (2007) [1999]. A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature. BRILL. pp. 87–89. ISBN 9789004157545.