Bei Ling

Bei Ling
Born (1959-12-28) 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

Works in English

References

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