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Bei Ling
Born (1959-12-28) December 28, 1959 (age 64)
Beijing
Alma materCapital University of Economics and Business, Brown University
GenrePoetry
Literary movementIndependent Chinese PEN Center

Bei Ling (Chinese: 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[edit]

He came to the United States as an exchange student, 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 lives in Boston, and New York City. He founded the Independent Chinese PEN Center together with Liu Xiaobo[8] and later became its president [9]

In 2009, he sought dialogue with Chinese officials at the Frankfurt Book Fair.[10] In 2010, he wrote about Liu XiaoboinThe Wall Street Journal.[11] In 2011, he organized a letter in support of Ai Weiwei.[12] 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]

Works[edit]

Works in English[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Home". Lyrikline.org.
  • ^ "Tough times for writers in China | Human Rights in China 中国人权". Archived from the original on 2011-10-31. Retrieved 2011-06-24.
  • ^ "A Brief Guide to Misty Poets". poets.org. Archived from the original on 2010-04-12. Retrieved 2013-09-25.
  • ^ "Literary Arts". Brown University.
  • ^ "Introduction: Bei Ling / Anastasios Kozaitis". Buffalo University.
  • ^ a b "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
  • ^ Change, China (2017-07-09). "Liu Xiaobo: The founder of China's political opposition movement". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  • ^ "Bei Ling".
  • ^ http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4810775,00.html [dead link]
  • ^ 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. 15 April 2011.
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