Author Description

Xu Zhimo was a famous Chinese poet and writers, whose poem 'Second Farewell and Cambridge' is learnt by many school children. His life and work was central to the first great opening up of China to Western artistic and literary influences during the 1920s and 1930s. Curated by Zilan Wang and Alan Macfarlane and others on behalf of the Cambridge Rivers Project, a company which strives to bridge cultural understanding and education between China and the West. A dual language book in English and Mandarin Chinese.