Abstract: In 21st century,the nearly-one-century-long dissemination of Xu Zhimo's image all over the world as a modern Chinese poet has entered a new phase with its interwoven clues and prospect of making new progress.Breakthroughs happened in both the historical investigation of Xu's Cambridge materials and the translation of his poetry;his cultural identity and literary status have been re-evaluated;his literary persona has been re-envisioned through varying voices of overseas biographies and autobiographical novels;and the “Cambridge Xu Zhimo Poetry & Art Festival” makes a model of promoting the value of trans-cultural heritage.All these elements together form an integral image of Xu Zhimo in a flexible grid of world literature.We see in Xu Zhimo a world literary value which fits in the global vision,appeals to foreign readers,and keep being illuminating all the way;the image's global dissemination features a route from the East to the West which calls off the occidental-centered misconception about world literary system and puts forward a multi-systematic,poly-centered mapping of world literature that is quite important nowadays.

Key words: Xu Zhimo, world literature, “Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again”, University of Cambridge, global dissemination of Chinese literature