Ai Qing (Chinese: 艾青; pinyin: Ài Qīng; Wade–Giles: Ai Ch'ing, March 27, 1910 – May 5, 1996), born Jiang Zhenghan (Chinese: 蒋正涵; pinyin: Jiǎng Zhènghán) and styled Jiang Haicheng (Chinese: 蒋海澄; pinyin: Jiǎng Hǎichéng), was a 20th-century Chinese poet.

Mar 23, 2025 · Ai Qing (born March 27, 1910, Jinhua, Zhejiang province, China—died May 5, 1996, Beijing) was a Chinese poet whose free verse was influential in the development of xinshi (“new poetry”). The son of a well-to-do landowner, Ai …

Ai Qing (1910-1996), a native of Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, was born in a landlord family but was breast-fed by a poor countrywoman. This special life experience exerted profound and major influence on the formation of Ai Qing's personality and his later poetry creation.

Breaking with traditional forms of Chinese poetry, Ai Qing innovatively adapted free verse, writing with a simple sincerity in clear lines that could be understood by everyday readers.

Nov 2, 2021 · Ai Qing (1910-1996) is regarded as one of the finest modern Chinese poets, and his free verse was influential in the development of new poetry in China. Robert Dorsett, translator, studied Chinese at the Yale-in-China Program at the Chinese University in Hong Kong.

Ai Qing (March 27, 1910-May 5, 1996), whose original name was Jiang Zhenghan (Chinese: 蒋正涵) and later went by Jiang Haicheng (Chinese:蒋海澄), was a famous Chinese poet who came to national prominence with his poem “Da Yan River—My Wet Nurse."

May 6, 1996 · Ai Qing, one of modern China's most famous poets, died at a hospital here today. He was 86. Mr. Ai, born in 1910 to a prosperous landed family in coastal Zhejiang Province, spent his first five...

ACTICE OF AI QING: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE By Angela Jung Palandri Among contemporary Chinas veteran poets who have survived the Cultural Rev. lution, Ai Qing is perhaps one of the most popular and enduring. Having been branded a rightist in 1957, during the first political storm that crushed the blooming of the "Hundred Flow.

Aug 24, 2016 · Ai Ch'ing or Ai Qing (both: ī´ chĬng´), pseud. of Chiang Hai-ch'eng or Jiang Haicheng, 1910–96, Chinese poet. After studying painting in France (1929–32), where he discovered realist literature and was particularly influenced by the Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren, he returned to China and wrote modernist poetry in flamboyant free verse ...

Ai Qing was a Chinese poet who made significant contributions to the development of free verse. He was born in 1910 in Zhejiang, China. In 1929, he went to France to study and stayed there until 1932. During his time in France, Ai Qing was heavily influenced by the works of E. Verhaeren, Walt Whitman, and Vladimir Mayakovsky.