Bai Hua
(China, 1956)
Born in Sichuan province in 1956, Bai Hua seems to have decided from an early age to …
Bei Dao
(China, 1949)
Bei Dao began writing poetry in the early 1970s. He is seen as the figurehead of the …
Chen Kehua
(Taiwan, 1961)
Chen Kehua was born in Hualian on the east coast of Taiwan in 1961 and currently works …
Duo Yu
(China, 1973)
Although, as Fred Inglis once wrote in An Essential Discipline, the highest function of …
Fang Xianhai
(China, 1971)
Fang Xianhai was born on one of the Zhoushan Islands (he doesn't like to specify …
Han Dong
(China, 1961)
Han Dong was born on 17 May 1961 in Nanjing. At the height of the Cultural Revolution, …
He Xiaozhu
(China, 1963)
He Xiaozhu is a poet of the periphery in China, both imagined and real. Born in 1963 to …
Hsia Yü (Xia Yu)
(Taiwan, 1956)
Hsia Yü studied film and drama at the National Taiwan Academy of the Arts. Besides …
Jin Haishu
(China, 1961)
Jin Haishu pushes his tough side forward in his poetry: sex, drugs and rigmarole are …
Yan Jun
(China, 1973)
In recent years, the poet and musician Yan Jun has been writing mainly diary poems and …
Jun Er
(China, 1968)
More than twenty-five years of economic reform in the People’s Republic have undeniably …
Jimu Langge
(China, 1963)
In the southwest corner of China, the grand mountains and rivers that border the …
Lo Fu
(China, 1928)
The poet did not wish for his photograph to be displayed. Lo Fu (Luo Fu) is the penname …
Lü De'an
(China, 1960)
In his own words, Lü De’an is a happy poet. This may have something to do with the fact …
Ye Mimi
(Taiwan, 1980)
Ye Mimi studies at the Graduate Institute of Creative Writing and English Literature of …
Che Qianzi
(China, 1963)
Che Qianzi (1963) was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, moved to Beijing in 1998, and …
Shang Qin
(China, 1930)
Shang Qin was born in southern China and has lived in Taiwan since 1948. ‘When I look …
Sheng Xing
(China, 1978)
For Sheng Xing, a disquieting new voice in contemporary Chinese literature, poetry …
Shuijing Zhulian
(China, 1981)
The rapid growth of the internet in China over the last five years has given rise to a …
Song Xiaoxian
(China)
The events and energies of mundane, down-in-the-dirt reality inspire much of the poetry …
Wang Xiaoni
(China, 1955)
Call it a miracle of gravity . . . With simple words and startling images, Wang …
Xi Chuan
(China, 1963)
Xi Chuan (official name Liu Jun), poet, essayist, translator, was born in the City of …
Xiao Kaiyu
(China, 1960)
In today’s Chinese poetry we find some remarkable imagery: Bei Dao’s needle sliding …
Yang Li
(China, 1962)
The spirit of Ted Berrigan is alive and well in the Chinese poet Yang Li! He too can be …
Yang Lian
(Switzerland, 1955)
Yang Lian was born in Bern (Switzerland) in 1955, where his parents were in the …
Yao Feng
(China, 1958)
Yao Feng, the pen-name of Yao Jingming, was born in Beijing in 1958. He studied …
Yi Sha
(China, 1966)
There are no hints in Yi Sha’s poetry, no over-reliance on the imagination of his …
Yu Jian
(China, 1954)
For Yu Jian, poetry is largely a matter of sounding his world with words. Born on 8 …
Zhai Yongming
(China, 1955)
Turn out all the lights and close all the curtains! Although her name means “eternal …
Zhang Zao
(China, 1962–2010)
By turns erotic and enigmatic, Zhang Zao’s poetry is driven by two compulsions: …
 

 
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