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===Love affairs=== Xu Zhimo's various love affairs with Zhang Youyi, [[Lin Huiyin]], and [[Lu Xiaoman]] are well known in China. Xu married Zhang Youyi,<ref name="library.thinkquest.org">[https://book.douban.com/subject/3105699/ Reminiscences of Xu Zhimo]</ref> (the sister of the politician [[Zhang Junmai]]) on 10 October 1915. This was an arranged marriage that went against Xu's belief in free and simple love. Although Zhang gave birth to two sons, Xu still couldn't accept her. While in London in 1921, Xu met and fell in love with Lin Huiyin (the daughter of Lin Changmin). He divorced Zhang in March 1922. Inspired by this newly found love, Xu wrote a large number of poems during this time. Lin and Xu became friends. However, she was already betrothed to [[Liang Sicheng]] by his father. Xu's last lover was Lu Xiaoman, who was married to Wang Geng, a friend of Xu. The marriage had been arranged by her parents and she felt trapped in this loveless marriage. When Xu and Lu met, they quickly bonded over the similarity of their respective experiences with arranged marriages. When it came to be known that they were in love, both were scorned by their parents and friends. Lu divorced her husband in 1925 and married Xu the next year.<ref name="library.thinkquest.org"/> Their honeymoon period did not last long however and Lu gradually became more and more depressed.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}} Because of Lu's spending habits{{citation needed|date=May 2017}} and Xu's parents refusing to lend them money, Xu had to take several jobs in different cities to keep up with the lifestyle Lu desired. She was widowed when Xu died in an airplane crash. Xu was also romantically linked to American author [[Pearl S. Buck]] and American journalist [[Agnes Smedley]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Conn |first=Peter |year=1996 |title=Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-63989-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/pearlsbuck00pete/page/103 103, 397] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/pearlsbuck00pete/page/103 }}</ref> In an obituary, writer [[Wen Yuan-ning]] commented that Xu's "relations with women are exactly like [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley]]'s. Let no woman flatter herself that Tse-mo has ever loved her; he has only loved his own inner version of Ideal Beauty."<ref>"The Late Mr. Hsu Tse-mo, A Child," in [[Wen Yuan-ning]], "Imperfect Understanding: Intimate Portraits of Modern Chinese Celebrities," edited by Christopher Rea (Amherst, MA: Cambria Press, 2018), p. 45.</ref>
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