Guo Xiaochuan

Guo Xiaochuan
Native name	郭小川
Born	Guo Enda September 2, 1919 Fengshan, Rehe, Republic of China
Died	October 18, 1976 (aged 57) Anyang, Henan
Language	Chinese
Nationality	China
Ethnicity	Han Chinese
Alma mater	Northeastern University
Genre	poetry
Literary movement	"political lyric poetry"
Years active	1940s - 1960s

Guo Xiaochuan (Chinese: 郭小川; 1919-1976), original name Guo Enda, was a Chinese poet. He joined the Eighth Route Army in 1937, and began to write free-verse poems during the second Sino-Japanese War. After 1949, he worked for the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China.

Guo's best known poems includes One and Eight (which Zhang Junzhao's film of the same name is based on), Tree Songs on Forested Areas, Forest of Sugar Cane --Gree Gauze Curtain and Gazing at the Starring Sky. Along with He Jingzhi, he is considered as one of the major practitioners of "political lyric poetry" style. But Guo's poems care more about individual perception, and some of his works were strictly criticized in China in the late 1950s.^[1][2]

References

1. Chang, Kang-i Sun; Owen, Stephen, eds. (2010). The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature: From 1375. Cambridge University Press. p. 603. ISBN 9780521855594.
2. Hong, Zicheng (2007) [1999]. A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature. BRILL. pp. 87–89. ISBN 9789004157545.