Bian Zhilin (, 1910–2000) was a 20th-century

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, translator and literature researcher. Bian was born in

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on December 8, 1910, and liked to read classical and modern Chinese poems when he was very young. In 1929, he entered the English department of

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to study. During this time he was greatly influenced by the English romantic poems and French symbolic poems, and began to write poems by himself. The poetry anthology ''The Han Garden Collection'' () co-written by Bian, Li Guangtian and He Qifang, was published in 1936. Bian's poems were related to the Crescent School () which advocated modern metrical poetry, but his style was closer to the Chinese symbolists. He once coedited the magazine ''New Poems'' () with the representative figure of Chinese symbolist poetry

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. Bian's poems of this time represented his dissatisfaction and thinking of the social reality as a young intellectual, showed his quick perception, and sometimes hard to understand. He sought for strangeness of words, tidiness of syllables, and many of his poems were full of a melancholy mood. During the

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, he taught at

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and

National Southwestern Associated University When the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out between China and Japan in 1937, Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University merged to form Changsha Temporary University in Changsha and later National Southwestern Associated Universi ...

. From 1938 to 1939 he took a visit to

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and

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, and once taught at the institute of Lu Xun's art and literature. Bian compiled his ''A Selection of 10 Years' Poetry (1930–1939)'' () in 1941, and it was published in the next year. In 1946, he went to the Nankai University to teach. In 1949, Bian became a professor of the foreign language department of

. From 1964, he served as a researcher of the Institute of Foreign Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (). Wu Zimin. ''Bian Zhilin'', ''Encyclopedia of China'' (Chinese Literature Edition), 1st ed.

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Bian Zhilin Encyclopædia Britannica
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