Bei Ling (貝嶺) (born December 28, 1959 Beijing) is a Chinese poet, and journal editor.[1][2]
He came to the United States on an exchange, he was a fellow at Brown University.[3] After the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, in 1992, he founded the literary journal 傾向 (Tendency).[4] Beginning in 1998, he traveled to China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. In 2000, he opened an office in Beijing. On August 13, 2000, he was detained for 14 days at the Qinghe Detention Center, and charged with "illegal publication." After an international protest, he was fined $24,000, and deported.[5]
He lived in Boston, and New York City. He is Executive Director of the Independent Chinese PEN Center.[6]
In 2009, he sought dialogue with Chinese officials at the Frankfurt Book Fair.[7] In 2010, he wrote about Liu Xiaobo in The Wall Street Journal.[8] In 2011, he organized a letter in support of Ai Weiwei.[9]
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