Fei Ye

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Fei Ye ({{zh|菲野}}; born 1962) is a Chinese poet who was also involved in the Chinese democracy movement.{{cite news|last=Iwata|first=Edward|title=Writing in Exile: A Chinese Tale : Authors: After the horrors of Tian An Men Square, more than 100 dissident Chinese writers have fled their home. The exiled are learning to cope and create in foreign lands|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-08-16-vw-1212-story.html|access-date=2 January 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|year=1990}} Although often associated with the Misty Poets,{{Cite web |url=http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5663 |title=A Brief Guide to Misty Poets |access-date=2013-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412152855/http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5663 |archive-date=2010-04-12 |url-status=dead }} he considers himself of a younger generation and dismisses the label.{{cite book|author1=Beidao|author2=Tony Barnstone|title=Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry : Poems by Bei Dao ... [et Al.]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qSzCeKE-zYEC&pg=PA33|accessdate=21 December 2012|year=1993|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-1210-9|pages=33–}} Fei has published four underground books of poetry and translated two books of Russian poetry, including the work of Osip Mandelstam. He lives in the United States after being exiled from China.

Biography

He was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang (Black Dragon River) in the northernmost province of China.

Fei began editing the banned literary journal Lone Army.{{cite journal|last=Donald|first=Stephanie|title=Women reading Chinese films: between orientalism and silence|journal=Screen|year=1995|volume=24|issue=6|pages=325–40|doi=10.1093/screen/36.4.325}} He was arrested in 1983 when a Communist Party loyalist had spotted him editing in a classroom in Harbin.

Fei fled China in 1987 with the help of the American Embassy. As an exile, he moved to Berkeley, California. In 1989, he founded the organization "Chinese Writers in Exile" in Berkeley.{{cite journal | last = Schwartz | first = Leonard | year =1995 | title = Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry by Tony Barnstone | journal = Manoa | volume = 7 | issue = 1 | pages = 262 | jstor = 4229206}} Fei Ye's poems The Curse and The Poet in America were written while in America.

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