TY - JOUR
AU1 - Xue, Di
AB -  X U E D I with M E L I S S A C L A R K Xue Di was born in Beijing in 1957. In 1983, he helped found the Yuan Ming Yuan Poetry Society, an avant-garde poetry group continuing in the tradition of the Today Poetry Society, formed during the 1978 democracy movement. He organized readings at Beijing University and other educational centers and edited an anthology, The Yuan Ming Yuan Poetry Collection. He helped organize and participated in the 1989 demonstration in Tiananmen Square, escaping to the United States soon after the massacre. Since 1990, he has been a fellow in Brown University's Freedom to Write Program. Among his works are three books of poetry in Chinese--Hui Yi (Remembering), Chan Li (Trembling), and Meng Yi (Dream Talk)--and four books in English translation: Heart into Soil, Circumstances, An Ordinary Day, and Another Kind of Tenderness. He has twice received a Hellman / Hammett grant, awarded by Human Rights Watch. MC When and why did you start writing poetry? XD When I was a small boy, my parents got divorced. Back then, divorce very rarely happened in mainland China. The government strictly forbade couples to divorce 
TI - A Commitment to Life: An Interview
JF - Manoa
DA - 2006-08-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-hawai-i-press/a-commitment-to-life-an-interview-YImekW5a3O
SP - 155
EP - 162
VL - 18
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -