Guo Lusheng

Who is Guo Lusheng?

Guo Lusheng, pen name Shi Zhi, was an influential Chinese poet of the 1960s, considered the "founder of the New Poetry movement".

His poems were the first to break with the Mao Zedong-style classicist poetry, expressing the "bewilderment of the Red Guard generation". Young readers spread his poems widely in hand-copied form, and he was one of the mascots of the zhiqing generation - educated youth who were sent to the countryside during the cultural revolution. This underground poetry movement continued over the next 30 years, and he inspired several modern movements including the Misty poets.