Bei Ling | |
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| Born | December 28, 1959 |
| Education | Capital University of Economics and Business, Brown University |
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| Genre | Poetry |
Movement | Independent Chinese PEN Center |
Bei Ling (Chinese: 貝嶺) (born December 28, 1959, in Beijing) is a Chinese poet, and journal editor. He is usually associated with the Chinese misty poets.
He came to the United States as an exchange student, he was a fellow at Brown University. After the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, in 1992, he founded the literary journal 傾向 (Tendency).
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. 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.
He lives in Boston, and New York City. He founded the Independent Chinese PEN Center together with Liu Xiaobo and later became its president
In 2009, he sought dialogue with Chinese officials at the Frankfurt Book Fair. In 2010, he wrote about Liu Xiaobo in The Wall Street Journal. In 2011, he organized a letter in support of Ai Weiwei. 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.
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