He (November 24, 1899 - July 15, 1946) was a Chinese national poet knownfor his nationalist poems. He was born in Xishui County, Hubei Province. After receivinga traditional Chinese Confucian education, he attended Tsinghua University. In 1922, hewent to the United States to study fine arts and literature at the Chicago Art Institute. Hisfirst poems were published during this period. He returned to China in 1925 and worked asa university lecturer. With the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, he emigrated toKunming. There, he was able to continue teaching, this time at the National Southwest JointUniversity during the war. In his poems, he tried to recreate the symbolism and morality ofpre-modern Chinese society. He was assassinated by the Kuomintang in 1946. The poet andhis wife Gao Zhen are buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing.