Crescent Moon Society

Ling Shuhua married Chen Xiying , a literary critic and historian who founded the Contemporary Review, an important publication venue for the Crescent Moon Group of writers based in Beijing.

The Crescent Moon Society , a salon for modern Chinese authors with which Ling Shuhua was affiliated, was founded by a group who included Xu Zhimo and Chen Xiying (the latter of whom she would...

The group's founders emphasised exchanges between Asian and British literary cultures; they named it after Rabindrath Tagore 's prose-poem collection The Crescent Moon (1903), after they brought Tagore to Beijing via the Society for Lectures on the New Learning

Xu Zhimo was one of several Crescent Moon members who played a vital role in LS's creative life. He and LS collaborated, for instance, on producing the literary supplement for the Morning Post newspaper (where...

A writer and visual artist active primarily between the 1920s and 1950s, LS published short stories, essays, translations, and a memoir whose reception was shaped by frequently restrictive expectations for women writers of her time...

Ling Shuhua 's first volume of short stories, Temple of Flowers, was published by the Crescent Moon Bookstore , opened in Shanghai by the Crescent Moon Society .

In the later 1920s LS was involved with the Crescent Moon Society , dedicated to nurturing modern writing in China. The collective (named after a volume of poetry by Rabindrath Tagore ) of writers and...