Shen Yinmo

Template:Chinese name Shen Yinmo (沈尹默, 1883 – June 1, 1971) was a Chinese poet and calligrapher.

He was born in Wuxing, Zhejiang province. He made his name in Kyoto, Japan. He was one of the first to write in the new style and he published his poems in periodicals such as La Jeunesse (New Youth) and Xīncháo (新潮, The Renaissance). Two works that made him famous were Sānxián Jí (三弦集) and Qiūmíng Jí (秋明集). He also wrote poems in the classical style. In his poems, he used rhyme and alliteration similarly to the way they had come to be used in classical poetry. He was professor in several universities, and later became president of Beiping University.

Around 1950, his poems appeared prominently in the literature supplement of the newspapers Guangming Daily, Wen Hui Bao, and Jiefang Daily.

He was also known as a calligrapher. He was director of a research institute and published historical studies on calligraphy.

During the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) Shen, already in his 80s, was tortured by the Red Guards. The Red Guards were against all non-communist forms of art and culture and declared Shen a "counter-revolutionary".

External links

• Straddling East and West: Lin Yutang, a modern literatus: the Lin Yutang family collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Shen Yinmo (see table of contents)