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Yang Lian

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: February 19 1955

Yang Lian is a Swiss-Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets and also with the Searching for Roots school. He was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1955 and raised in Beijing, where he attended primary school.

His education was interrupted by the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution after 1966. In 1974 he was sent to Changping county near Beijing to undergo 're-education through labor', where he undertook a variety of tasks including digging graves. In 1977, after the Cultural Revolution had ended and Mao Zedong had died, Yang returned to Beijing where he worked with the state broadcasting service.

Yang Lian

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: February 19 1955

Yang Lian is a Swiss-Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets and also with the Searching for Roots school. He was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1955 and raised in Beijing, where he attended primary school.

His education was interrupted by the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution after 1966. In 1974 he was sent to Changping county near Beijing to undergo 're-education through labor', where he undertook a variety of tasks including digging graves. In 1977, after the Cultural Revolution had ended and Mao Zedong had died, Yang returned to Beijing where he worked with the state broadcasting service.

Books from Yang Lian

Lee Valley Poems

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Concentric Circles

4.3/5 ( ratings)

A Splintered Mirror: Chinese Poetry from the Democracy Movement

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Yi

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Konst och människa: ett samtal med Ai Weiwei

Notes of a Blissful Ghost

2.6/5 ( ratings)

Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Non-Person Singular: Selected Poems of Yang Lian

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Narrative Poem

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Anniversary Snow

The Third Shore

Ett lyckligt spökes anteckningar

Poems of Hong Ying, Zhai Yongming & Yang Lian

Il pane dell'esilio