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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 Jun
(China, 1974)
Chen Jun (陈均) specializes in Kun Opera, a form of theatre in the 16th-18th century in …
Chen Kehua
(Taiwan, 1961)
Chen Kehua was born in Hualian on the east coast of Taiwan in 1961 and currently works …
Ming Di
(China)
Ming Di is a poet, translator and editor, born in China, currently living in USA, …
Duo Duo
(China, 1951)
Duo Duo 多多 (penname for Li Shizheng 栗世征) grew up in the years when China was going …
Duo Yu
(China, 1973)
Although, as Fred Inglis once wrote in An Essential Discipline, the highest …
Fang Xianhai
(China, 1971)
Fang Xianhai was born on one of the Zhoushan Islands (he doesn't like to specify …
Gu Cheng
(China, 1956–1993)
Gu Cheng was a famous Chinese modern poet, essayist and novelist. He was a prominent …
Guo Jinniu
(China, 1966)
Guo Jinniu, born in Hebei and now living in Shenzhen, was a migrant worker in South …
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 …
Sarah Howe
(Hong Kong, 1983)
Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Born in Hong Kong to an English …
Hsia Yü (Xia Yu)
(Taiwan, 1956)
Hsia Yü studied film and drama at the National Taiwan Academy of the Arts. Besides …
Hu Xudong
(China, 1974)
Hu Xudong began writing modern poetry as a student at Peking University when, without …
Jiang Hao
(China, 1971)
Jiang Hao 蒋浩 stands out among his peers for his unique, and sometimes startling, grace …
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 …
Li Heng
(China, 1986)
Li Heng (黎衡) is one of the most talented young poets in China today, praised for the …
Liu Waitong
(China, 1975)
It is through poetry that Liu reflects on the past and present of China and Hong Kong. …
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 …
Na Ye
(China, 1964)
Na Ye 娜夜 is an ethnic Manchu poet in China. While her family was originally from …
Kawa Niangji ལགས་ཀྱི་ཟིན་བྲིས།
(China, 1989–2015)
Kawa Niangji 卡瓦娘吉 is the pen name for Niangjiben ལགས་ཀྱི་ཟིན་བྲིས།, a Tibetan poet and …
Che Qianzi
(China, 1963)
Che Qianzi (1963) was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, moved to Beijing in 1998, and …
Qin Xiaoyu
(China, 1974)
From real estate to an Arcadian landscape, from a yurt to a bank building, for Qin …
Trilingual renshi
(Asia, 2015)
Renshi is a modern version of the traditional Japanese linked poem, …
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 Lin
(China, 1959)
Song Lin 宋琳 was born in Fujian, graduated from East China Normal University in 1983. He …
Song Xiaoxian
(China)
The events and energies of mundane, down-in-the-dirt reality inspire much of the poetry …
Sun Wenbo
(China, 1956)
Sun Wenbo 孙文波 was a soldier, factory worker, editor, and then a prominent poet for over …
Wang Jiaxin
(China, 1957)
Wang Jiaxin 王家新 was born in Danjiangkou, Hubei Province, and was sent to the …
Wang Xiaoni
(China, 1955)
Call it a miracle of gravity . . . With simple words and startling images, Wang …
Aku Wuwu
(China, 1964)
Aku Wuwu 阿库乌雾 (b. 1964) is a poet of the Nuosu subgroup of the large Yi …
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 …
Ya Shi
(China, 1966)
Ya Shi 哑石 (pen name of Chen Xiaoping) has an alchemical genius – in his poetry we …
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 Xiuhua
(China, 1976)
Yu Xiuhua (余秀华) is an emerging star in China, a woman poet that The New York …
Yu Jian
(China, 1954)
For Yu Jian, poetry is largely a matter of sounding his world with words. Born on 8 …
Zang Di
(China, 1964)
How often do we bite off more than we can chew? Whether it is something concrete, like …
Zhai Yongming
(China, 1955)
Turn out all the lights and close all the curtains! Although her name means “eternal …
Zhang Zhihao
(China, 1965)
Zhang Zhihao (张执浩), poet and novelist, is a member of the Writers Association in Hubei …
Zhang Zao
(China, 1962–2010)
By turns erotic and enigmatic, Zhang Zao’s poetry is driven by two compulsions: …
Zheng Min
(China, 1920)
Zheng Min 郑敏 was born in Fujian,  graduated from Southwest United University in …
Zheng Xiaoqiong
(China, 1980)
Zheng XIaoqiong 郑小琼’s poetry exploded on the Chinese literary scene when it won …
Zhu Zhu
(China, 1969)
From a creeping plant to a launderette, from the Chinese Wall to Florence and New …
 
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