Su Manshu

Su Manshu (traditional Chinese: 蘇曼殊; simplified Chinese: 苏曼殊; pinyin: Sū Mànshū, 1884–1918) was a Chinese writer, poet, painter, revolutionist and translator; his original name was Su Xuanying (Chinese: 蘇玄瑛; pinyin: Sū Xuányīng). Su had been named as a writer of poetry and romantic love stories in the history of early modern Chinese literature. However, he was most commonly known as a Buddhist monk, a poetry monk, "the monk of sentiment" (Chinese: 情僧; pinyin: qíng sēng) and "the revolutionary monk" (Chinese: 革命僧; pinyin: gémìng sēng). Su was born out of wedlock in Yokohama, Japan in 1884. His father was a Cantonese merchant, and his mother was his father's Japanese maid. His ancestral home was in Zhongshan city, Guangdong Province, China. He died at the age of 34 due to a stomach disease in Shanghai.