Crescent Moon Society

… and Xu Zhimo, founded the Crescent Moon Society in 1927 and published their ideas in the journal Xinyue (“Crescent Moon”). Liang taught English literature at Peking University (1934–37) and worked on his translation into vernacular Chinese of the complete works of Shakespeare (completed in 1967). He began his prose writing…

…of the Xinyue She (“Crescent Moon Society”), such as the British-educated Xu Zhimo and the American-educated Wen Yiduo, were creating new forms based on Western models, introducing the beauty of music and colour into their extremely popular lyrical verse.