教我如何不想她
How Can I Help Thinking of Her
Librarian’s score7.9Claude · AI
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As verse it is a simple four-stanza song; its lasting worth is historical, carrying the new pronoun 她 into common use through Zhao Yuanren’s setting.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Written in London in 1920 and later set to music by the linguist Zhao Yuanren, this short song uses 她 for ‘her’, the written pronoun for women that Liu Bannong had proposed, and it helped carry the character into everyday use. It is here because a single new character, offered freely, became everyone’s. Notice how each stanza passes through a different light, from light clouds and moonlight to fallen petals and the last afterglow.
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- Rights
Written in 1920 and published in book form in 1926; the author died in 1934. Public domain by age: the author died before 1956 and the text was published before 1931.
Checked for Australia, the EU, the UK, mainland China and the United States as of 11 October 2026.
- Source
Wikisource
retrieved 11 October 2026 - Translation
English: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-003025
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Full record
- Title
- 教我如何不想她
How Can I Help Thinking of Her - Author
- Liu Bannong 劉半農 (1891–1934)
- Date
- Republican era and after
written 1920, collected 1926 - Form
- Verse
- Language
- Modern Chinese; traditional characters, with a simplified copy converted by OpenCC
- Edition
- Text from Chinese Wikisource, transcribed from Raising the Whip (揚鞭集, 1926); written in London on 4 September 1920.
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.