Gu Cheng

Gu Cheng (1956-1993) was a Chinese modernist poet and an expatriate in New Zealand. He was a prominent figure in the "Misty Poets" literary movement in China. He was also remembered for his premature death in a murder-suicide incident, which he reportedly slaughtered his wife, Xie Ye and committed suicide.

Sources

• Words without Borders
• Academy of American Poets
• The Forces of Production: Symmetry and the Imagination in the Early Poetry of Gu Cheng
• Dead in Exile: The Life and Death of Gu Cheng and Xie Ye
• Renditions
• Snatching the Last Word(s): Value-driven Suicides and the Role of Narrative in Chinese Literary History