Poet of the 新月派 (Crescent Moon school) who wrote in the new vernacular. Chinese students learn his 再别康桥, a farewell to Cambridge, where he had studied. He died in a plane crash at 34.
2000 Taiwanese TV drama starring Huang Lei as Xu Zhimo and Zhou Xun as Lin Huiyin - cemented the romanticized image of Xu in mainland and Taiwan popular memory.
