Gu Cheng (simplified Chinese: 顾城; traditional Chinese: 顧城; September 24, 1956 – October 8, 1993) was a famous Chinese modern poet, essayist and novelist. He was a prominent member of the "Misty Poets", a group of Chinese modernist poets.

Gu Cheng was a world-famous modernist Chinese poet, essayist, and novelist. He was born in Beijing in 1956, the son of poet and People’s Liberation Army soldier Gu Gong. When Gu was twelve, Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution began its violent “re-education” programs, and his family was sent to rural Shandong province.

2015年11月5日 · The Chinese modernist poet Gu Cheng, whose violent end is frequently placed at the centre of his work, is a case in point. In 1993, exiled from China and living in the isolated New Zealand community of Waiheke Island, Gu Cheng murdered his wife Xie Ye with an axe.

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.

SIDELIGHTS: Gu Cheng was one of the Chinese group known as the "misty" poets, writers who challenged the tenets of Communism and who introduced the notion of expressing subjective ideas in their poetry.

Offering a unique blend of brooding imagism and political innuendo, Gu Cheng's poetry traces complex changes in the poet's lifefamilial, psychological, culturaland also radiates an...

Gu Cheng’s position in contemporary Chinese poetry remains a mystery despite all the seemingly obvious facts surrounding it. Born in Beijing in 1956, and being the youngest of the “misty” (menglong) poets, Gu Cheng actually got an early start as a writer.

2022年12月24日 · This week we have a poem by Gu Cheng 顧城, one of the wonderboys to come out of the 1980’s. He left China, immigrating to New Zealand, got a teaching job and then murdered his wife with an ax. His poetry was as sharp and succinct as his ax.

Gu Cheng (1956-1993) is one of China’s most celebrated contemporary poets. His early death ended a literary career that was influenced by the Cultural Revolution and that reawakened the lyricism of Chinese poets during the 1980s.

2023年3月7日 · As a young boy, Gu Cheng is said to have created his own birdlike language that only his sister could understand and translate into Mandarin.