Yang Lian

Publications & Biography | On-line works | Essay, Interviews | Video | Archives | Links

Publications & Biography

• Yang Lian's personal website
• Biographical Note 
• Bibliography
• Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland (Auckland UP)

Gallery

• Yang Lian, Gu Cheng and families hold a banner with the word 
  "mourn" in Chinese (Auckland Star, June 5, 1989)
• Portrait, 1985
• Yang Lian, Auckland 2003. (Credit: Godfrey Boehnke)

On-line Works

• Ten Years (Jacket 15)
• Notes of a Blissful Ghost (Painted Bride Quarterly 65)
• Where the sea stands still, Section 1 Part 1 (WellSweep)
• Crocodile, The Non-Personal Snow 6 (WellSweep)
• The Composer’s Tower (Civitella Ranieri Foundation)
• 12 Storkwinkel, Berlin (Jacket 16)
• London (Jacket 16)
• Moonlit night in the sky (Octopus Magazine 3)

• Until; Then; Since (Words Without Borders)

   

From Non-Person Singular, trans. Brian Holton. (WellSweep, 1994)

• Winter Garden / Garden on a Winter’s Day
  
• Grafton Bridge
  
• City of Dead Poets / The Dead Poet’s City
  
• The Garden This Afternoon
  
• Incident
  
• Hospital
• Deathtrap
• Mountain Valley
• The Street I See from My Window
  
• Traveling with the Stars 

From ‘The Sky Shifts’ in Where the Sea Stands Still: New Poems, trans. Brian Holton. (Bloodaxe, 1999)

• Broken Foot That Walks the Wall
  
• Sea of Dead Lambs
  
• Museum Windows Carved with the Names of Different Oceans
  
• The Sky Shifts
  
• The Shore of Time
  

Where the Sea Stands Still (WellSweep, 1995; Bloodaxe 1999)

From Nine Exiled Poets (nzepc and  The Poetics of Exile conference)

• Another Decade, Hudson River
• Brian Holton Travelling in New Zealand

Essays by Yang Lian

• Ghostspeak excerpts (nzepc/Renditions 46)
• In the Timeless Air: Chinese Language, Pound and The Cantos (Painted Bride Quarterly 65)

• The dark side of the Chinese moon (New Left Review 32)

• Selected Essays
  

Interviews and Debates

• Debate with Yang Lian at Deep Europe Workshop (Nettime Archive)
• China: the language of exile Gao Xingjian and Yang Lian ( Index on Censorship)
• Kim Hill with Yang Lian (nzepc/Radio NZ, 2001 Posted with permission)
  
• Lynn Freeman with Yang Lian (nzepc/Radio NZ, 2003)
  

Video

The following video clips were recorded at a University of Auckland seminar held on October 15th 2001, hosted jointly by the School of Asian Studies and the Centre for Comparative Literature. They include:
 -  readings by Yang Lian in Chinese
 -  readings by Jacob Edmond in English translation
 -  commentary by Yang Lian in English

Jacob Edmond is a lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at the University of Otago

• The title Yi [commentary]
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• Fire (1) (English)
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• Fire (1) (Chinese)
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• Fire 2 (English & Chinese)
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• Fire 7 (English)
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• Fire 7 (Chinese)
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• Fire 8 (English)
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• Fire 8 (Chinese)
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• On banned poetry [commentary]
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• Banned Poem (English & Chinese)
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• On exile [commentary]
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• Grafton Bridge (English)
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• Grafton Bridge (Chinese)
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• Old Story (4) (English & Chinese)
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• Old Story (5) (English & Chinese)
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• On Gu Cheng [commentary]
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• 12 Storkwinkel, Berlin (English & Chinese)
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• On Where the sea stands still [commentary]
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• Where the sea stands still (English & Chinese)
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• Question: "Why is there so much death in your poems?"
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• Question: "Is it possible for poetry to be translated?"
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• Question: "Have you been back to China?"
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• Question: "How do you balance being a Chinese and a New Zealand poet?"
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Archive

• Manuscripts and Rare Publications at the University of Auckland Library 
• Tapa Notebook

Links

• Bei Dao, From the Founding of Today to Today: A Reminiscence (Stanford Presidential Lectures 1998)
• Writers-in-exile after Tiananmen: An Interview with Oliver Kramer (Road to East Asia 1.3)
• Live, Local and International: Yang Lian at University of Auckland (nzepc celebration reading) 
• Asian Studies / Comparative Literature seminar at the University of Auckland 
• City of Dead Poets  details of a multimedia book of poems based on poems by Yang Lian

credit:Godfrey Boehnke	credit: Sandor Lau
	University of Auckland seminar held on October 15th 2001, hosted jointly by the School of Asian Studies and the Centre for Comparative Literature. Left to right: Jacob Edmond, Yang Lian, Hilary Chung.

credit: Hilary Chung

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Last updated 12 March, 2018