Bei Ling
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Bei Ling
Bei Ling, born in Shanghai in 1959, is an editor, poet, essayist and the founder of the Chinese P.E.N. Club, as well as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo’s biographer. Bei Ling lives in the USA and in Taiwan and is barred from setting foot on Chinese soil.
Bei Ling, born in Shanghai in 1959, is an editor, poet, essayist and the founder of the Chinese P.E.N. Club, as well as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo’s biographer. Bei Ling lives in the USA and in Taiwan and is barred from setting foot on Chinese soil.
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Year of Publication: 2012
Bei LingYear of Publication: 2012
Exiled
»My home is no longer China. My home is the Chinese language.«
Celebrated in the West; branded an outcast in his own country. In this autobiographical book, Bei Ling – editor, author and friend to the activists Liu Xiaobo and Ai Weiwei – offers a glimpse of the mechanisms of Chinese State power, in particular State censorship. His work as a...
Celebrated in the West; branded an outcast in his own country. In this autobiographical book, Bei Ling – editor, author and friend to the activists Liu Xiaobo and Ai Weiwei – offers a glimpse of the mechanisms of Chinese State power, in particular State censorship. His work as a...