Wen I-to : his life and poetry

Wen I-to, poet, painter, scholar and revolutionary, was born in Hupeh province, China, in 1899 and died by assassination at the age of forty-six in Kunming on 15 July 1946. His life-span embraced some of the most tumultuous events of modern times in China. On the political front, it covered the 1911 revolution against the Manchu government, the establishment of the Republic, the rise of modern national.ism during and after the May Fourth Movement in 1919, the growth of the Nationalist and Communist parties, the Northern Expedition for the unification of the country, the Kuomintang coup of 1927 and the consequent campaign against the Communists, and the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-45