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Bei Dao

Author of Waves: Stories by Bei Dao

46+ Works 464 Members 1 Review 2 Favorited

About the Author

Includes the names: Beidao, 北岛, 北島,, Pei-Tao, Bei Dao, 北島., Zhao Zhenkai, Zhenkai Zhao, Беи Дао, pseud. Bei Dao

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Works by Bei Dao

Waves: Stories by Bei Dao (1985) 78 copies

Unlock (1991) 53 copies, 1 review

The August Sleepwalker (1988) 47 copies

At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 (2001) 36 copies

The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition) (New Directions Paperbook) (2009) 33 copies

Forms of Distance (1994) 33 copies

Landscape over Zero (New Directions Paperbook, 831) (1996) 33 copies

Old Snow: Poems (1991) 30 copies

Midnight's Gate: Essays (2005) 18 copies

City Gate, Open Up (2010) 18 copies

Blue House (1998) 15 copies

ENDURE (Black Widow Press Modern Poetry) (2011) 9 copies

Sidetracks (2024) 7 copies

Olas (1990) 4 copies

Puhun peilille kiinaa (2013) 4 copies

Lumearmee (2007) 3 copies

Samlade dikter (1995) 3 copies

Speranza fredda (2003) 3 copies

Paisaje Sobre Cero (Spanish Edition) (2001) 2 copies

Gezeiten (1990) 2 copies

Golven (1989) 2 copies

Gå mot vinteren : dikt i utvalg (2000) 2 copies

Notes from the city of the sun : poems (1983) 2 copies

在天涯：北島詩選 (1993) 2 copies

Stranden och det bortskämda barnet (1983) 2 copies

Das Stadttor geht auf: Eine Jugend in Peking (2021) 2 copies

Não acredito no eco dos trovões (Portuguese Edition) (2022) 2 copies

Bei Dao zuopin jingxuan (2011) 1 copy

青灯 (2012) 1 copy

失败之书 (2004) 1 copy

城門開 (2010) 1 copy

time Rose: North Island Essay (Paperback) (1991) 1 copy

Постела од несоници 1 copy

Das Buch der Niederlage: Herausgegeben und übersetzt von Wolfgang Kubin. Edition Lyrik Kabinett bei Hanser (2009) 1 copy

Ancient enmity (2018) 1 copy

Poems to Kids (Chinese Edition) (2014) 1 copy

Bei Dao Poetry set (paperback) (2003) 1 copy

Não Acredito No Eco Dos Trovões (2022) 1 copy

Dagdröm (1989) 1 copy

Islands or Continents: International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013 (Eighteen-volume box set) (2014) 1 copy

Bei Dao in Exile 1 copy

七十年�� 1 copy

Når frosten kommer 1 copy

Rise and Fall (Chinese Edition) (2015) 1 copy

Best Of Time 1 copy

重影（著名诗人北岛第一部摄影诗文集，摄影与诗歌相遇，感受光影与文字的相映成趣。摄… (2019) 1 copy

Associated Works

Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contributor — 341 copies, 2 reviews

The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 318 copies

Granta 108: Chicago (2009) — Contributor — 144 copies, 1 review

Lucky Peach : Issue 5 : Chinatown (2012) — Contributor — 35 copies

One World of Literature (1992) — Contributor — 24 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Bei Dao
Legal name: Zhao, Zhenkai
Other names: Pei-tao
Birthdate: 1949-08-02
Gender: male
Nationality: China (birth)
Birthplace: Peking, China
Places of residence: Beijing, China
Occupations: poet
editor
fiction writer
Organizations: American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1996)

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Unlock by Bei Dao

Bei Dao is a giant in contemporary Chinese poetry and his works were inspirational for the Democracy Movement; I love several of his poems that appear in “A Splintered Mirror” which I would recommend (e.g. “Answer, “Notes on the City of the Sun”, “Transparent Grief”), but unfortunately I did not like this collection as much. The subjects are less interesting and it seems to me he was trying too hard. I suppose my favorite here is “The Old Castle”, which ends:

“hearing the sighs of tomorrow
the main gate clangs shut
art is dead
roses bloom”… (more)

½

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gbill | Dec 3, 2011 |

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The China Project Book List (1)

Awards

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Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Landscape over Zero (New Directions Paperbook, 831) (David Hinton – 1997)

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation

City Gate, Open Up (Winner – Literary Work – 2017)

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Statistics

Works: 46
Also by: 5
Members: 464
Popularity: #53,001
Rating: 4.0

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 74
Languages: 11
Favorited: 2

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