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Place of Birth: Zhejiang, China
About Xu Xu
- Xu Xu, aka Hsu Yu (??), was the pen name of Xu Boyu (???; 11 November 1908 – 5 October 1980), an important figure in modern Chinese literature.
- Born in Cixi in the coastal province of Zhejiang, Xu Xu attended Peking University between 1927 and 1932 where he studied philosophy and psychology.
- In 1932, he moved to Shanghai where he became an associate of Lin Yutang, a liberal and polyglot intellectual who ran a number of successful literary journals.
- In 1950, Xu Xu left the newly founded People's Republic of China for Hong Kong where he stayed for the rest of his life.
- Best known as the author of the modern gothic tale Ghost Love (??, 1937) or his wartime spy-epic The Rustling Wind (???, 1944), Xu Xu was also a prolific poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, journal editor, and professor of literature.
- Many of his popular novels were turned into movies or TV series in post-war Hong Kong and Taiwan.
- As a writer, editor, and educator, Xu Xu has had a formative impact on a younger generation of post-war writers emerging in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
- In much of his fiction, and especially in his later works from Hong Kong, Xu Xu explored reality-defying experiences and displayed neo-romantic tendencies, such as aesthetic escapism and mysticism, which place him in the proximity of other modern artists associated with the global revival of romanticism in the 20th-century.
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