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    Bei Dao (simplified Chinese: 北岛; traditional Chinese: 北島; pinyin: Běi Dǎo; lit. 'Northern Island', born August 2, 1949) is the pen name of the Chinese-American...
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  • Zhifu Island (redirect from Zhifù Dao)
    Island (Chinese: 芝罘島; pinyin: Zhīfú dǎo; Wade–Giles: Chih-fu tao) or North Island (Chinese: 北島; pinyin: Běi dǎo; Wade–Giles: Pei tao), is an islet with...
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  • movement was initially centered on the magazine Jintian, which was founded by Bei Dao and Mang Ke and published from 1978 until 1980, when it was banned. Guo...
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  • France Mia Couto Mozambique Jim Crace United Kingdom Edwidge Danticat Haiti Bei Dao China Assia Djebar Algeria Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Iran Jean Echenoz France...
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    essays Julian Barnes 1946  United Kingdom 33 novel, short story, essays Bei Dao 1949  China 45 poetry, short story, essays, memoirs Tahar Ben Jelloun 1944...
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  • Miroslav Krleža, Yehuda Amichai, Seamus Heaney, Tomas Gösta Tranströmer, Bei Dao, Amir Or and domestic authors such as Blaže Koneski and Mateja Matevski...
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  • presenting encounters between poetry and visual arts, e.g. Francesco Clemente & Bei Dao, Rosemarie Trockel & Henri Michaux, Marcel Broodthaers, Jean Fautrier &...
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    'West Sand Archipelago') and the Hoàng Sa Archipelago (Vietnamese: Quần đảo Hoàng Sa, lit. 'Yellow Sand Archipelago'), are a disputed archipelago in...
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    Wole Soyinka, Yasar Kemal, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Seamus Heaney, Amos Oz, Bei Dao, Hans Blix Qiu Xiaolong and Thor Heyerdahl. Norwegian Festival of Literature...
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  • the book were translated by Bei Dao, Gong Hua (= Karen Kung), and Zhao Zhenkai (= Bei Dao !) together with the author. Bei Dao also translated Droogenbroodt's...
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    Dao (pronunciation: [táʊ], English approximation: /daʊ/ dow, Chinese: 刀; pinyin: dāo; jyutping: dou1) are single-edged Chinese swords, primarily used for...
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    Looking at Wang Wei, Weinberger is a translator of the poetry of the poet Bei Dao, and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry...
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    Liu Bei (Chinese: 劉備, pronunciation; Mandarin pronunciation: [ljǒʊ pêɪ]; 161 – 10 June 223), courtesy name Xuande (玄德), was a Chinese warlord in the late...
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  • under the warlord Liu Bei, the founding emperor of Shu Han, in the late Eastern Han dynasty. Little is recorded about Chen Dao in history; unlike other...
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    (2011) Mongane Wally Serote (2012) José Emilio Pacheco (2013) Ko Un (2014) Bei Dao (2015) Margaret Atwood (2016) Charles Simic (2017) Adam Zagajewski (2018)...
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  • part of the group known as the Misty Poets. Other Misty Poets include Bei Dao, Gu Cheng, Fei Ye, and Duo Duo. The journal, Jīntiān ran from 1978 to 1980...
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    allusions and hermetic references. The most important Misty Poets include Bei Dao, Duo Duo, Shu Ting, Yang Lian, and Gu Cheng, most of whom were exiled after...
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    Sony Pictures Entertainment executive James Zwerg, civil rights activist Bei Dao, poet Jackson J. Bushnell, educator Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, founder...
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  • publishing work by Bei Dao, Duo Duo, Shu Ting, Yang Lian and others. It ran for nine issues and published four books (poetry by Mang Ke, Bei Dao, and Jiang He...
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  • past: Huang Dao Guo. In that nation, leadership is rotated among the twelve constellations every thousand years. The current emperor is Bei Tang Yi of...
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  • revived. Poetry also changed in its form and content. Four "misty poets", Bei Dao, Gu Cheng, Duo Duo and Yang Lian expressed themselves in deliberately obscure...
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    Soyinka South African poet and memoirist Breyten Breytenbach Chinese poet Bei Dao Spanish novelist Juan Goytisolo Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago...
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  • of Lí Po. New Directions. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8112-1323-3. David Hinton. Bei Dao (1996). Landscape Over Zero. New Directions. ISBN 978-0-8112-1334-9. The...
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  • See also Ai Qing Bai Juyi or Bo Juyi Consort Ban Ban Gu (32–92 A.D.) Bei Dao Bei Ling Bian Zhilin Cai Wenji Cai Yong Cao Cao 曹操 Cao Pi Cao Zhi Cen Shen...
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    Ah Cheng (China) Gu Cheng (China) Bei Dao (China) Osamu Dazai (Japan) Shūsaku Endō (Japan) Tu Fu (China) Takashi Hiraide (Japan) Taeko Kono (Japan) Yukio...
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    stylized pen names. One example is the poet Zhao Zhenkai, whose pen name is "Bei Dao" (北岛; 'North Island'). Posthumous names (諡號; shìhào) were honorary names...
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  • pages. Bei Dao, Daydream (Minneapolis, MN: OHM Editions, 2010). Co-translated with Lucas Klein. Reprinted in Bei Dao, Endure. 23 pages. Bei Dao, Endure...
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  • Leading figures Bei Dao Chai Ling Cui Jian Dai Qing Ding Zilin Fang Lizhi Fang Zheng Feng Congde Liu Gang Han Dongfang Hou Dejian Li Lu Liu Xianbin Liu...
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    Hanan al-Shaykh (Lebanon) Carlos Fuentes  Mexico Mario Valdés (Canada) Bei Dao  China/ United States Eliot Weinberger (US) 1998 Nuruddin Farah  Somalia...
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  • married to Bei Dao, a Chinese poet who openly opposed the Chinese government.  They had one child. In 1987, they went to England when Bei Dao was invited...
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