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Bibliography

Have commenced tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in

AACR2 and RDA; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 05:30, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply

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Hi Wikipedians – I’ve just done a complete rewrite of the Bei Dao page and wanted to leave a brief explanation. Basically, the page prior to the rewrite left much to be desired, in my opinion. It lacked citations for information that should have been sourced, contained assertions that violated neutrality (such as claiming that Bei Dao is “the most notable representative” of the Misty Poets), had incorrect info (e.g., most egregiously, claiming that Bei Dao was sent to “re-education” because he’d expressed misgivings about the Cultural Revolution, when in fact he was sent for the opposite reason: he’d been a member of the Red Guards; also, the claim that he was in Berlin when the 1989 Tiananmen protests began, or that Jintian was resurrected in Stockholm (it was Oslo) were also incorrect), and the page lacked clarity (including citations in Chinese).

I’ve added more biographical info that I think will be helpful for a general reader who wants to understand the basic outline of Bei Dao’s story, as well as a brief summary of his work. I’ve broken the article into sections to make info easier to find. I’ve also removed the Chinese renderings of titles in the bibliography—given that this is English Wikipedia, I don’t know that it’s desirable to have information in a language other than English, except sparingly, and I don’t see that Bei Dao’s page on other Wikis (Spanish, German, Polish, etc.) contains information in Chinese. (The bibliography also incorrectly listed “The Answer” as a 1976 publication as if it were a book—in fact, it appeared as a single poem in Jintian in 1978.) That being said, if you have info about his Chinese publications, that would be great to add in English to the bibliography.

If you see further areas for improvement, or disagree with my reasoning, feel free to proceed as you see fit. I hope this revised page is helpful. Thanks! IbIANTiA (talk) 14:27, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]