Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t8.5

v2.c10.s2.t8.5

In 1922, he went back to China and became a leader of the modern poetry movement. In 1923, he founded the Crescent Moon Society and served as an editor of the literary supplement of the Chenbao (Morning Post), the most important literary supplement in Beijing at that time. When Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore visited China in 1924, Xu Zhimo played the part of oral interpreter.