Yang Lian at poetry reading

Yang Lian is considered one of the most important living Chinese poets. Like many form his generation, he suffered from the Cultural Revolution, became active in Beijing underground culture during the late 1970s and early 1980s, was a founder of the literary journal Today (Jin tian) with Bei Dao and Mang Ke and went into exile in London where he has been active in literary circles. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. This photograph was taken at a poetry reading in NYC when he was reading from his book Xing fu gui hun shou ji,

• 2003-03

• Spencer, Norman A.

• Writers

• New York (N.Y.)

• Yang, Lian, 1955-

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