Dai Wangshu
Chinese poet
Died when: 44 years 360 days (539 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Dai Wangshu (Chinese: 戴望舒; pinyin: Dài Wàngshū;Wade–Giles: Tai Wang-shu;March 5, 1905 – February 28, 1950), also Tai Van-chou, was a Chinese poet, essayist and translator active from the late 1920s to the end of the 1940s.
A native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, he graduated from the Aurora University, Shanghai in 1926, majoring in French.He was closely associated with the Shanghai Modernist school, also known as New Sensibility or New Sensation School, a name inspired by the Japanese modernist writer Riichi Yokomitsu.
Other members of the group were Mu Shiying, , Shi Zhecun, and , whose Third Category thesis (that a writer could be on the left but remain independent) Dai defended against the hard line taken by the May Fourth Movement veteran Lu Xun.
