Bei Ling ( zh, t=貝嶺) (born December 28, 1959, in

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) is a Chinese

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, and journal editor. He is usually associated with the Chinese

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Life

He came to the

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as an exchange student, he was a fellow at

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. After the

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, in 1992, he founded the literary journal (Tendency). In 2000, he opened an office in

. 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

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, and

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. He founded the Independent Chinese PEN Center together with

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and later became its president In 2009, he sought dialogue with Chinese officials at the

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. In 2010, he wrote about

in ''The Wall Street Journal''. In 2011, he organized a letter in support of

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. In 2016, he was prominent in the campaign to preserve freedom of expression in Hong Kong after the

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, one of whom was

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, his friend since the 1980s.

Works

*主題與變奏, 貝嶺, 黎明文化事業股份有限公司, 1994, *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, *半先知與賣文人: 哈維爾評論集, 貝嶺, 鄭純宜, 傾向出版社, 2004, *在土星的光環下 : 蘇珊·桑塔格紀念文選, 貝嶺, 傾向, 2007, *''Wandering in March'' *''The Deceived''

Works in English

*''Bei Ling selected poems'', 貝嶺, Willis Barnstone, Denis Mair, 傾向出版社, 2006,

References

External links

"Under the aura of Saturn"
''Griffith REVIEW Edition 18'' *http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/bei-ling/ * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bei, Ling Chinese expatriates in the United States Living people 1959 births Poets from Beijing 20th-century Chinese journalists Misty poets Capital University of Economics and Business alumni Academic staff of Shenzhen University