Bei Ling
| Bei Ling | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
December 28, 1959 Beijing |
| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Literary movement | Independent Chinese PEN Center |
Bei Ling (貝嶺) (born December 28, 1959 in Beijing) is a Chinese poet, and journal editor.[1][2] He is usually associated with the Chinese misty poets.[3]
Life
He came to the United States on an exchange, he was a fellow at Brown University.[4] After the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, in 1992, he founded the literary journal 傾向 (Tendency).[5]
In 2000, he opened an office in Beijing.
He launched a literary magazine named Tendency in 1993 as a platform for young underground writers' talents.[6] On August 13, 2000, he was detained for 14 days at the Qinghe Detention Center, and charged with "illegal publication." After an international protest, he was fined $24,000, and deported.[7]
He lived in Boston, and New York City. He is Executive Director of the Independent Chinese PEN Center.[8]
In 2009, he sought dialogue with Chinese officials at the Frankfurt Book Fair.[9] In 2010, he wrote about Liu Xiaobo in The Wall Street Journal.[10] In 2011, he organized a letter in support of Ai Weiwei.[11] In 2016, he was prominent in the campaign to preserve freedom of expression in Hong Kong after the Causeway Bay Books disappearances, one of whom was Gui Minhai, his friend since the 1980s.[6]
He claimed to have many houses in Germany, Taiwan, Thailand, and U.S.A.
Works
- 主題與變奏, 貝嶺, 黎明文化事業股份有限公司, 1994, ISBN 978-957-16-0334-6
- 政治, 再见, Havel, Vaclav 哈维尔, 貝嶺, 林宗憲, 左岸文化: 傾向出版社出版, 2003, ISBN 978-986-7854-26-1
- 半先知與賣文人: 哈維爾評論集 , 貝嶺, 鄭純宜, 傾向出版社, 2004, ISBN 978-957-0329-87-2
- 在土星的光環下 : 蘇珊·桑塔格紀念文選 , 貝嶺, 傾向, 2007, ISBN 978-957-28408-6-3
- Wandering in March
- The Deceived
Works in English
- Bei Ling selected poems, 貝嶺, Willis Barnstone, Denis Mair, 傾向出版社, 2006, ISBN 978-957-28408-3-2
References
- ↑ "Home". Lyrikline.org.
- ↑ http://www.hrichina.org/crf/article/4562
- ↑ "A Brief Guide to Misty Poets". poets.org.
- ↑ "Literary Arts". Brown University.
- ↑ "Introduction: Bei Ling / Anastasios Kozaitis". Buffalo University.
- 1 2 "Dissident poet turns sleuth to uncover disappearance of bookseller friend Gui Minhai". South China Morning Post. 6 March 2016.
- ↑ https://www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k2/awards.html#Bei Ling
- ↑ http://www.griffithreview.com/contributors/bei-ling
- ↑ http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4810775,00.html
- ↑ Bei Ling (19 October 2010). "My Old Friend Liu Xiaobo". The Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ "欧洲作家致温家宝联署签名信 吁请释放艾未未". aboluowang.
External links
- "Under the aura of Saturn", Griffith REVIEW Edition 18
- http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/bei-ling/
- Bei Ling, Chinese poet and journal editor on YouTube