1. Xu Zhimo (1897)

Chinese Poet

Chinese Romantic poet who is most remembered for a 1928 poem entitled "On Leaving Cambridge."

2. Hai Zi (1964)

Chinese Poet

Hai Zi is the pen name of the Chinese poet Zha Haisheng. He was one of the most famous poets in Mainland China after the Cultural Revolution. He committed suicide...

3. Yang Lian (Unknow)

Chinese Poet

Yang Lian is a Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets and also with the Searching for Roots school. He was born in Bern Switzerland in 1955 and raised in...

4. Zhou Libo (comedian) (1967)

Chinese Poet

Zhou Libo is a Chinese stand-up comedian. On December 1 2006 he made his first special performance in Anfu Road Shanghai. In late 2008 Zhou Libo create his own stand-up...

5. Jin Kemu (Unknow)

Chinese Poet

Jin Kemu is a Chinese poet scholar translator and essay writer professor of Beijing University. In 1935 he started to write poems and novels. In his early years he had...

6. Wei Zhuang (0836)

Chinese Poet

Zhuang style name Duanyi was a Chinese poet and late Tang Dynasty and early Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period historical figure best known for his poetry in shi and...

7. Tao Yuanming (0365)

Chinese Poet

Tao Yuanming also often referred to in some sources as Tao Qian or T'ao Ch'ien was a Chinese poet who lived in the middle of the Six Dynasties period. By...

8. Dai Wangshu (1905)

Chinese Poet

Dai Wangshu was a Chinese poet essayist and translator active from the late 1920s to the end of the 1940s.

9. Jiang Pinchao (1967)

Chinese Poet

Jiang Pinchao is a Chinese poet. He is the director of June Fourth Heritage & Culture Association chief editor of Collection of June Fourth Poems and Collection of Human Right...

10. Sun Zhu (Unknow)

Chinese Poet

Sun Zhu the Qing scholar also known as Hengtang Tuishi was the original compiler and editor of the anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems a popular compilation of Tang poetry...

11. Wang Zhihuan (1970)

Chinese Poet

g Zhihuan and whose name has been traditionally been transcribed Wang Tsu-huan was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty's Kaiyuan era. He is known for his famous poem entitled...

12. Mu Dan (1918)

Chinese Poet

Mu Dan was one of the most important poets of 20th century China. Born Zha Liangzheng in Tianjin he attended Tsinghua University at the age of 17 and graduated from...

13. Lin Bu (1970)

Chinese Poet

Lin Bu was a Chinese poet during the Northern Song Dynasty. His style name was Lin Hejing. One of the most famous verse masters of his time Lin lived...

14. Yang Zi (poet) (1963)

Chinese Poet

Yang Zi is a Chinese poet and translator.

15. Li Shangyin (1970)

Chinese Poet

Li Shangyin courtesy name Yishan was a Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty born in Henei. Along with Li He he was much admired and rediscovered in the 20th...

16. Wen Tianxiang (1236)

Chinese Poet

Tianxiang Duke of Xinguo was a scholar-general in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty. For his resistance to Kublai Khan's invasion of the Song and for his refusal...

17. Li Bai (0701)

Chinese Poet

Li Bai also known as Li Po was a Chinese poet acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius and romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms...

18. Zhai Yongming (Unknow)

Chinese Poet

Zhai Yongming is a Chinese poet from Chengdu. After being sent away for two years during the Cultural Revolution to do manual labor in the countryside she returned to Chengdu....

19. Zhao Luorui (Unknow)

Chinese Poet

Zhao Luorui was a Chinese poet and translator.

20. Yu Xuanji (1970)

Chinese Poet

Yu Xuanji courtesy names Youwei and Huìlan was a Late Tang Dynasty Chinese poet from in Chang'an. Her family name Yu is relatively rare.

21. Xu Ling (1970)

Chinese Poet

Xu Ling was the compiler and editor of the famous poetry anthology New Songs from the Jade Terrace during the poetically prolific Southern Dynasties era 420–589. His courtesy name...

22. Wu Mi (1894)

Chinese Poet

u Mi ) was one of the founders of Chinese comparative literature a critic redologist educator and poet. In 1942 he become a professor in Ministry of Education. He...

23. Yang Wanli (Unknow)

Chinese Poet

Yang Wanli was a Chinese poet born in Jishui Jiangxi. He was one of the four masters of Song Dynasty poetry. Written during the final exile of the Song...

24. Zunun Kadir (Unknow)

Chinese Poet

Zunun Kadir was a modern Uyghur poet playwright and novelist. He was born in Emin Xinjiang in 1911. Kadir began his career in 1936 and published his three-acts drama Wen-chʻing-mu...

25. Zuo Si (1970)

Chinese Poet

Zuo Si courtesy name Taichong was a writer and poet of the Western Jin.

26. Xu Zihua (1873)

Chinese Poet

Xu Zihua was a Chinese poet. She was educated at home and interested in poetry from an early age. She became a widow when she was still young and became...

27. Xin Qiji (1140)

Chinese Poet

Xin Qiji was a Chinese poet military leader and statesman during the Southern Song dynasty.

28. Yao Sui (Unknow)

Chinese Poet

Yao Sui 姚燧 writer of Chinese Sanqu poetry and official was the nephew of the noted official Yao Shu 姚樞 and uncle of the dramatist and sanqu poet Yao Shouzhong...

29. John Ching Hsiung Wu (1899)

Chinese Poet

John Ching Hsiung Wu was a Chinese jurist and author. He wrote works in Chinese English French and German on Christian spirituality Chinese literature and on legal topics. A...

30. Zhang Ji (poet from Jiangnan) (0766)

Chinese Poet

Zhang Ji courtesy name Wenchang was a Tang Dynasty poet and scholar.

31. Gu Cheng (1956)

Chinese Poet

Gu Cheng was a famous Chinese modern poet essayist and novelist. He was a prominent member of the Misty Poets a group of Chinese modernist poets.

32. Yuan Hongdao (1568)

Chinese Poet

Yuan Hongdao was a Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty and one of the Three Yuan Brothers. His life spanned nearly the whole of the Wanli period in Chinese history....

33. Yuan Mei (Unknow)

Chinese Poet

Yuan Mei was a well-known poet scholar artist and gastronome of the Qing Dynasty.

34. Yuan Zhen (1970)

Chinese Poet

Yuan Zhen courtesy name Weizhi was a politician of the middle Tang Dynasty but is more known as an important Chinese writer and poet. In prose literature Yuan Zhen...

35. Yuan Zhongdao (1570)

Chinese Poet

Yuan Zhongdao 袁中道 Chinese poet essayist travel diarist and official was born in Kung-an in Hukuang. He shares his fame with two other brothers Yuan Zongdao and Yuan Hongdao. The...

36. Zang Kejia (1905)

Chinese Poet

Zang Kejia was a Chinese poet. He was born in the Shandong province Zhucheng county. Zang entered the Shandong Provincial First Normal School in 1923 and later trained at the...

37. Zhang Jiuling (1970)

Chinese Poet

Zhang Jiuling courtesy name Zishou nickname Bowu formally Count Wenxian of Shixing was a prominent minister noted poet and scholar of the Tang Dynasty serving as chancellor during the...

38. Zhou Lianggong (Unknow)

Chinese Poet

Zhou Lianggong was a Chinese poet born in Kaifeng was an essayist and art historian and had long family ties to Nanjing. He passed his Jinshi degree in 1640 becoming...

39. Zhu Ziqing (1898)

Chinese Poet

Zhu Ziqing born Zhu Zihua was a renowned Chinese poet and essayist. Zhu studied at Peking University and during the May Fourth Movement became one of several pioneers of modernism...

40. Du Fu (1970)

Chinese Poet

Du Fu was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. Along with Li Bai he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets. His greatest ambition was to...

41. Wu Jiaji (Unknow)

Chinese Poet

u Jiaji was a Chinese poet and an associate of the official and literary figure Zhou Lianggong. Wu’s writings provide us with a glimpse of conditions just prior to the...

42. Yan Yu (poetry theorist) (1191)

Chinese Poet

Yan Yu was a Chinese poetry theorist and poet of the southern Song Dynasty. He was born in Shaowu and was active during the reign of Lizong. Yan never became...

43. Shiwu (1272)

Chinese Poet

Shiwu or Stonehouse was a Chinese Chan poet and hermit who lived during the Yuan Dynasty. Shiwu was born in the town of Changshu. Taking his name from the Shihwutung...

44. Wang Rong (Jin dynasty) (1970)

Chinese Poet

g Rong courtesy name Junchong was a politician who lived in the Western Jin dynasty. Wang Rong served under Jin as the 3rd East General. Wang Rong participated during the...

45. Wang Wei (17th-century poet) (1597)

Chinese Poet

g Wei was a Chinese poet. Orphaned at the age of seven she became a prostitute in Yangzhou. In later life she was twice married and twice widowed before...

46. Wang Yun (Yuan dynasty) (Unknow)

Chinese Poet

g Yun was a writer of Chinese Sanqu poetry from Weizhou in Henan province. He was born during the Jin Dynasty but became an official under the Yuan Dynasty. Initially...

47. Liu Yong (Song dynasty) (1970)

Chinese Poet

Liu Yong was a Chinese poet of the Song Dynasty. He was born in Chong'an Fujian.