11 Facts About Shao Xunmei

Shao Xunmei was a contributing writer for T'ien Hsia Monthly, and was the owner of Modern Sketch.

Shao Xunmei lived in the wealthiest part of Shanghai, Bubbling Well Road.

Shao Xunmei's grandfather Shao Youlian was a high-ranking official who served as governor of Taiwan and as a diplomat to Russia.

Shao Xunmei began a tour of Europe at age 17 in 1923 and continued it until 1927, going to Naples, Italy; Cambridge, England, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris; he was educated in Cambridge and Paris.

Shao Xunmei finished a poetry collection towards the end of the trip and published it, titled Parade and May, in 1927.

Shao Xunmei became intrigued by the English writer Algernon Charles Swinburne and French writer Charles Baudelaire.

Hahn stated that Shao Xunmei's wife approved of the document since it was a possible method of saving his press and that Shao Xunmei had not been married "according to foreign law".

Shao Xunmei had a son, Shao Xunmei Zucheng, who attended schools operated by American missionaries and became an English teacher.

In 1958 Shao Xunmei wrote a letter to a friend in the United States and as a result was imprisoned.

Shao Xunmei was released in three years but his health had declined and did not improve afterwards.

Hutt stated that Shao Xunmei continued to be perceived as "a caricature" by the 1990s even though his image had been somewhat rehabilitated in that decade.