Yang Lian (poet)

For other people named Yang Lian, see Yang Lian (disambiguation).

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yang.
Yang Lian
Yang Lian, 2013
Yang Lian, 2013
Native name
楊煉
Born (1955-02-22) 22 February 1955 (age 69)
Bern, Switzerland
OccupationPoet
LanguageMandarin Chinese
PeriodContemporary
GenrePoetry
Literary movementMisty Poets, Searching for Roots School

Yang Lian (Chinese: 楊煉 Yáng Liàn; born 22 February 1955) is a Swiss-Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets and also with the Searching for Roots school. He was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1955 and was raised in Beijing, China. where he attended primary school.[1][2]

His education was interrupted by the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution after 1966. In 1974, he was sent to Changping county near Beijing to undergo "re-education through labor", where he undertook a variety of tasks including digging graves. In 1977, after the Cultural Revolution had ended and Mao Zedong had died, Yang returned to Beijing, where he worked with the state broadcasting service.

  1. ^ "Yang Lian Faculty Page at European Graduate School (Biography, bibliography and video lectures)". European Graduate School. Archived from the original on 9 July 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  2. ^ Poets, Academy of American. "A Brief Guide to Misty Poets | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Archived from the original on 12 April 2010.