Bei Dao

Zhao Zhenkai, who writes under the name Bei Dao, was born in Beijing on 2 August 1949. A Red Guard for a time in 1966, he then worked for about ten years as a construction worker. In 1978 he founded, with the poet Mang Ke according to PEN America, the unofficial magazine Jintian, banned in 1980. He was in Berlin in June 1989 and was unable to return to China; he relaunched Jintian in Sweden in 1990 and subsequently lived in several countries in Europe and in the United States. He teaches at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, since 2007 according to PEN America.

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