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4 unusual facts about Yang Lian


Kate Daudy

She has since collaborated with Lemn Sissay, Glyndebourne Opera, Yang Lian,House of Voltaire6, Grant White, the Southbank Centre, Poetry International, Rufus Wainwright and other artists and poets including the Icelandic singer Björk.

Mabel Lee

Lee was a professor of South-East Asian Studies at Sydney University and had already begun translation of the poems of Chinese writer, Yang Lian when she met Gao Xingjian, in Paris in 1991.

Pascale Petit

She has translated poems of a number of contemporary Chinese poets including Yang Lian, Wang Xiaoni and Zhai Yongming.

Yang Lian

Yang Lian was in Auckland, New Zealand at the time of the Tiananmen incident, and was involved with protests against the actions of the Chinese government.



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