Bei Dao

Bei Dao (Hanzi sederhana: 北岛; Hanzi tradisional: 北島; Pinyin: Běi Dǎo; harfiah: 'Pulau Utara', lahir 2 Agustus 1949) adalah nama pena dari penulis Tionghoa-Amerika Zhao Zhenkai (S: 赵振开, T: 趙振開, P: Zhào Zhènkāi). Menjadi salah satu penyair berbahasa Tionghoa paling menonjol dari generasinya, ia berulang kali dinominasikan untuk Nobel Kesusastraan. Selain syair, ia merupakan penulis fiksi pendek, esai dan memoir.

Bei Dao
Bei Dao di Tallinn, 2010
Lahir	Zhao Zhenkai 2 Agustus 1949 Beijing, Tiongkok
Warga negara	Tiongkok (1949-89) Tak bernegara (1989-2009) Amerika Serikat (dari 2009)
Pekerjaan	Penyair, Profesor, Esayis, Penulis Fiksi
Tahun aktif	1978–kini
Penghargaan	Guggenheim Fellowship (1998) Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings (2015)

Karya

• The August Sleepwalker (1990)
• Old Snow (1991)
• Forms of Distance (1994)
• Landscape Over Zero (1995)
• At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 (1996)
• Unlock (2000).

Bacaan tambahan

• Edmond, Jacob, "Bei Dao and World Literature," A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature, New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. pp. 95–124.
• Kinkley, Jeffrey (penyunting), After Mao: Chinese Literature and Society, 1978-1981, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
• Li, Dian, The Chinese Poetry of Bei Dao, 1978-2000: Resistance and Exile, Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
• McDougall, Bonnie, "Bei Dao's Poetry: Revelation and Communication," Modern Chinese Literature, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1985. pp. 225–252.
• McDougall, Bonnie, "Zhao Zhenkai's Fiction: A Study in Cultural Alienation," Modern Chinese Literature, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1984. pp. 103–130.
• Schwarcz, Vera, Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
• Sze, Arthur (penyunting), Chinese Writers on Writing, San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2010.
• Tan, Chee-Lay, Constructing a System of Irregularities: The Poetry of Bei Dao, Yang Lian, and Duoduo, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Pranala luar

• Profile at Poets.org
• Profile at Poetry Foundation
• "Travel" by Bei Dao at Guernica Magazine.
• Interview with Visiting Artist Bei Dao by Siobhan LaPiana in The Journal
• "Thirteen poems", Jacket 14, July 2001
• "Untitled"; "This Day"; "February"; "We", In Translation, December, 2009
• Profile and links at Stanford Presidential lectures