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Index Bei Dao

Bei Dao (born August 2, 1949) is the pen name of the Chinese-American writer Zhao Zhenkai (S: 赵振开, T: 趙振開, P: Zhào Zhènkāi).[1]

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  1. 137 relations: Allen Ginsberg, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Anting, Antonio Machado, Beijing, Beijing Capital International Airport, Beijing No.4 High School, Beloit College, Bing Xin, Blowin' in the Wind, Bob Dylan, Boris Pasternak, Bourgeoisie, Breyten Breytenbach, Brown University, Cecilia Lindqvist, Central Institute of Socialism, Centre Pompidou, Chai Ling, Chengdu, Chia-ying Yeh, China, China Association for Promoting Democracy, China Zhi Gong Party, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, Cikada Prize, CITIC Press Group, Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, Contemporary literature, Cornell University, Cultural Revolution, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Democracy Wall, Down to the Countryside Movement, Duo Duo, Durham University, Eastern Michigan University, Edema, Federico García Lorca, Forbidden City, Gang of Four, Gary Snyder, Great Chinese Famine, Great Leap Forward, Gu Cheng, Guernica (magazine), Guggenheim Fellowship, Guo Lusheng, ... Expand index (87 more) »

  2. Beijing No. 4 High School alumni
  3. Beloit College faculty
  4. Chinese magazine founders
  5. Misty poets
  6. Poets from Beijing

Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. Bei Dao and Allen Ginsberg are Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureates.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.

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Anting

Anting is a town in Jiading District, Shanghai, bordering Kunshan, Jiangsu to the west.

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Antonio Machado

Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz (26 July 1875 – 22 February 1939), known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Beijing Capital International Airport

Beijing Capital International Airport is one of two international airports serving Beijing, the capital of China (the other one being Beijing Daxing International Airport).

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Beijing No.4 High School

Beijing No.4 High School is a public secondary school in Xicheng, Beijing, China.

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Beloit College

Beloit College is a private liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin.

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Bing Xin

Xie Wanying (October 5, 1900 – February 28, 1999), better known by her pen name Bing Xin or Xie Bingxin, was one of the most prolific Chinese women writers of the 20th century.

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Blowin' in the Wind

"Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (p; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.

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Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.

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Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach (born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer, poet, and painter who became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisoner of the National Party-led South African Government.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Cecilia Lindqvist

Cecilia Lindqvist (Chinese name: Lin Xili 林西莉; 4 June 1932 – 28 September 2021) was a Swedish Sinologist.

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The Central Institute of Socialism is the higher education institution in China which trains cadres from the eight minor political parties and those not affiliated with political parties.

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Centre Pompidou

The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.

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Chai Ling

Chai Ling (born April 15, 1966) is a Chinese psychologist who was one of the student leaders in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

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Chengdu

Chengdu is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan.

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Chia-ying Yeh

Florence Chia-ying Yeh (born July 2, 1924), also known as Ye Jiaying, Jialing, and by her married name Chia-ying Yeh Chao, is a Chinese-born Canadian poet and sinologist. Bei Dao and Chia-ying Yeh are Educators from Beijing.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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The China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD) is one of the eight minor political parties in the People's Republic of China under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party.

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China Zhi Gong Party

The China Zhi Gong Party (l) is one of the eight minor political parties in the People's Republic of China under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Chinese Communist Party

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong.

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Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press is the university press of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Cikada Prize

The Cikada Prize is a Swedish literary prize for East Asian poets.

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CITIC Press Group

CITIC Press Group, formerly CITIC Publishing Group, is a publishing company founded in 1988 based in Beijing, China.

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Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars

The Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) was founded in 1968 by a group of graduate students and younger faculty as part of the opposition to the American participation in the Vietnam War.

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Contemporary literature

Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World War II and coincident with contemporary history.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program

The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (German: Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD) is a residential program for artists of all countries and ages run by the German Academic Exchange Service (German: ‘Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst', DAAD) in Berlin.

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Democracy Wall

From November 1978 to December 1979, thousands of people put up "big character posters" on a long brick wall of Xidan Street, Xicheng District of Beijing, to protest about the political and social issues of China; the wall became known as the Democracy Wall.

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Down to the Countryside Movement

The Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement, often known simply as the Down to the Countryside Movement, was a policy instituted in the People's Republic of China between the mid-1950s and 1978.

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Duo Duo

Duo Duo or Duoduo (born 1951) is the pen name of contemporary Chinese poet, Li Shizheng (栗世征), a prominent exponent of the Chinese Misty Poets (朦胧诗). Bei Dao and Duo Duo are Misty poets and poets from Beijing.

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Durham University

Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837.

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Eastern Michigan University

Eastern Michigan University (EMU, EMich, Eastern Michigan or simply Eastern), is a public research university in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

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Edema

Edema (AmE), also spelled oedema (BrE), and also known as fluid retention, dropsy, hydropsy and swelling, is the build-up of fluid in the body's tissue.

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Federico García Lorca

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca, was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.

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Forbidden City

The Forbidden City is the imperial palace complex in the center of the Imperial City in Beijing, China.

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Gang of Four

The Gang of Four was a Maoist political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials.

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Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist.

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Great Chinese Famine

The Great Chinese Famine was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Great Leap Forward

The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign within the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Gu Cheng

Gu Cheng (September 24, 1956 – October 8, 1993) was a famous Chinese modern poet, essayist and novelist. Bei Dao and Gu Cheng are Misty poets and poets from Beijing.

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Guernica (magazine)

Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics is an American online magazine that publishes art, photography, fiction, and poetry, along with nonfiction such as letters, investigative pieces, and opinion pieces on international affairs and U.S. domestic policy.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim.

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Guo Lusheng

Guo Lusheng (born 1948 Shandong), pen name Shi Zhi (食指, index finger), was an influential Chinese poet of the 1960s, considered the "founder of the New Poetry movement".

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hubei

Hubei is an inland province of China, and is part of the Central China region.

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Hunan

Hunan is an inland province of China.

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Huzhou

Huzhou (Huzhou dialect: ''ghou² cieu¹'') is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province (Hangzhou–Jiaxing–Huzhou Plain, China).

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January Storm

The January Storm, formally known as the January Revolution, was a coup d'état in Shanghai that occurred during the Cultural Revolution in between 5 January to 23 February 1967.

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Jiang Qing

Jiang Qing (19 March 191414 May 1991), also known as Madame Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary, actress, and major political figure during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976).

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Jintian (journal)

Jintian is the title of a Chinese literary journal.

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Jonathan D. Spence

Jonathan Dermot Spence (11 August 1936 – 25 December 2021) was a British-American historian, sinologist, and author who specialised in Chinese history.

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José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer.

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Juan Goytisolo

Juan Goytisolo Gay (6 January 1931 – 4 June 2017) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist.

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Julian Gewirtz

Julian Gewirtz is an American diplomat, historian, and poet currently serving as Deputy Coordinator for Global China Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in the Biden administration.

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Kangxi Emperor

The Kangxi Emperor (4 May 165420 December 1722), also known by his temple name Emperor Shengzu of Qing, personal name Xuanye, was the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the second Qing emperor to rule over China proper.

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Leiden University

Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands.

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Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish (Maḥmūd Darwīsh; 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet. Bei Dao and Mahmoud Darwish are Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureates.

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Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.

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Mang Ke

Mang Ke (芒克, original name Jiang Shiwei), born in 1951, is a prominent Chinese poet and co-founder (with Bei Dao) of the underground literary journal Jintian (Today), which appeared irregularly between 1978 and 1980 before being shut down by the Chinese Government. Bei Dao and Mang Ke are Chinese magazine founders and Misty poets.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Maoism

Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China and later the People's Republic of China.

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May Seventh Cadre School

May Seventh Cadre Schools were a system of rural communes in China established during the Cultural Revolution to train Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres to follow the mass line, including through the use of manual labor.

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Misty Poets

The Misty Poets are a group of 20th-century Chinese poets who reacted against the restrictions on art during the Cultural Revolution. Bei Dao and Misty Poets are Misty poets.

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Naturalization

Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth.

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Neustadt International Prize for Literature

The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award for literature sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).

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Osip Mandelstam

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам,; – 27 December 1938) was a Russian and Soviet poet.

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Oslo

Oslo (or; Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paradox

A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Parmenides (dialogue)

Parmenides (Παρμενίδης) is one of the dialogues of Plato.

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Paul Celan

Paul Celan, born Paul Antschel, (23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born French poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator.

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PEN American Center inactive awards

Awards presented by the PEN American Center (today PEN America) that are no longer active.

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PEN International

PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere.

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People's Insurance Company of China

The People's Insurance Company (Group) of China Limited, known as PICC Group or just PICC, is a Chinese listed insurer.

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People's Liberation Army

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China.

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Plato

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.

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Prague Writers' Festival

The Prague Writers' Festival (PWF) (Festival spisovatelů Praha) is an annual literary festival in Prague, Czech Republic, taking place every spring since 1991.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Qinghai

Qinghai is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the northeast, Xinjiang on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region on the southwest.

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Rafael Alberti

Rafael Alberti Merello (16 December 1902 – 28 October 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. Bei Dao and Rafael Alberti are Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureates.

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Re-education through labor

Re-education through labor (RTL), abbreviated laojiao was a system of administrative detention in mainland China.

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Red Guards

The Red Guards were a mass, student-led, paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 until their abolishment in 1968, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.

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Renditions (magazine)

Renditions: A Chinese-English Translation Magazine is a literary magazine on Chinese literature in English translation published by the Research Centre for Translation (RCT) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Republic of China (1912–1949)

The Republic of China (ROC), or simply China, as a sovereign state was based on mainland China from 1912 to 1949, when the government retreated to Taiwan, where it continues to be based.

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Russell Banks

Russell Earl Banks (March 28, 1940 – January 8, 2023) was an American writer of fiction and poetry.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Shanghai

Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.

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Shao Fei

Shao Fei (born 1954) is a contemporary Chinese female artist from Beijing.

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Shu Ting

Shu Ting (born 1952 in Jinjiang, Fujian) is the pen name of Gong Peiyu, a modern Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets. Bei Dao and Shu Ting are Misty poets.

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Socialist realism was the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union that mandated an idealized representation of life under socialism in literature and the visual arts.

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Statelessness

In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law".

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Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university on Long Island in Stony Brook, New York.

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Struga Poetry Evenings

Struga Poetry Evenings (SPE) (Струшки вечери на поезијата, СВП; tr. Struški večeri na poezijata, SVP) is an international poetry festival held annually in Struga, North Macedonia.

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Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925),Singtao daily.

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Susan Sontag

Susan Lee Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual.

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Taiping Rebellion

The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a civil war in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

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The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

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Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, named after the eponymous Tiananmen ("Gate of Heavenly Peace") located to its north, which separates it from the Forbidden City.

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Tomas Tranströmer

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. Bei Dao and Tomas Tranströmer are Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureates.

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Tongmenghui

The Tongmenghui of China was a secret society and underground resistance movement founded by Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others in Tokyo, Empire of Japan, on 20 August 1905, with the goal of overthrowing China's Qing dynasty.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Alabama

The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, the Capstone, or Bama) is a public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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University of Artois

The University of Artois (French: Université d'Artois) is a public university situated in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments of northern France.

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University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame (ND), is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana.

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University of Oklahoma

The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, United States.

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Vera Schwarcz

Vera Schwarcz (born 1947) was the Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University.

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Vicente Aleixandre

Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville.

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Vincenzo Consolo

Vincenzo Consolo (18 February 1933 – 21 January 2012) was an Italian writer.

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Wei Jingsheng

Wei Jingsheng (born 20 May 1950) is a Chinese human rights activist and dissident.

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West Bank

The West Bank (aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip).

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West Berlin

West Berlin (Berlin (West) or West-Berlin) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War.

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Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde "Wole" Soyinka (Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé "Wọlé" Ṣóyíinká,; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language.

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Wuchang Uprising

The Wuchang Uprising was an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty that took place in Wuchang (now Wuchang District of Wuhan), Hubei, China on 10 October 1911, beginning the Xinhai Revolution that successfully overthrew China's last imperial dynasty.

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Wuhan

Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province of China.

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Xianfeng Emperor

The Xianfeng Emperor (17 July 1831 – 22 August 1861), also known by his temple name Emperor Wenzong of Qing, personal name Yizhu, was the eighth emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the seventh Qing emperor to rule over China proper.

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Xicheng, Beijing

Xicheng is a district of the city of Beijing.

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Xu Bing

Xu Bing (born 1955) is a Chinese artist who served as vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

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Yan'an Forum

The Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art was a May 1942 forum held in the Yan'an Soviet and a significant event in the Yan'an Rectification Movement.

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Yang Lian (poet)

Yang Lian (楊煉 Yáng Liàn; born 22 February 1955) is a Swiss-Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets and also with the Searching for Roots school. Bei Dao and Yang Lian (poet) are Educators from Beijing, Misty poets and poets from Beijing.

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Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader.

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Young Pioneers of China

The Young Pioneers of China, often shortened to the Young Pioneers and sometimes translated into English as Red Pioneers, is a mass youth organization for children aged six to fourteen in the People's Republic of China.

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Zheng He

Zheng He (also romanized Cheng Ho; 1371–1433/1435) was a Chinese fleet admiral, explorer, diplomat, and bureaucrat during the early Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

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Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai (5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from September 1954 until his death in January 1976.

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1976 Tiananmen incident

The 1976 Tiananmen incident or the April 5 Tiananmen incident was a mass gathering and protest that took place on April 4–5, 1976, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.

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1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre

The Tiananmen Square protests, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989.

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See also

Beijing No. 4 High School alumni

Beloit College faculty

Chinese magazine founders

Misty poets

Poets from Beijing

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bei_Dao

Also known as Beo Dao, Zhao Zhenkai, Zhào Zhènkāi.

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