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.

顾城（1956年9月24日—1993年10月8日），男，原籍 上海，1956年生于北京一个诗人之家，中国 朦胧诗派 的重要代表，被称为当代的“唯灵浪漫主义”诗人。 顾城在 新诗 、 旧体诗 和寓言故事诗上都有很高的造诣，其《一代人》中的一句“黑夜给了我黑色的眼睛/我却用它寻找光明”成为 中国新诗 的经典名句。 顾城17岁开始写作生涯，给各个报社杂志投稿。 1987年开始游历 欧洲 做文化交流，1988年便隐居 新西兰 激流岛，过自给自足的生活，1993年10月8日在其新西兰寓所因婚 …

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.

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.

Nov 5, 2015 · 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.

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 was desperate about being left alone; Xie Ye was frantic about getting away from him and being reunited with her son. This book considers the contemporary political formula of the “Chinese Dream” in the light of the treatment of dreams in Chinese literary history since antiquity.

Mar 7, 2023 · 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.

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.