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Duo Duo (Li Shizheng) was born on 1951 in Beijing, PRC, is an A chinese male writer. Discover Duo Duo's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

Popular As Li Shizheng
Occupation Poet
Age 73 years old
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Birthplace Beijing, PRC
Nationality Beijing

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1951

Duo Duo or Duoduo (, born 1951) is the pen name of contemporary Chinese poet, Li Shizheng (栗世征), a prominent exponent of the Chinese Misty Poets (朦胧诗).

1980

His style underwent a shift in the mid-1980s to longer, more philosophical poetry.

In contrast to the clipped, image-based style of Bei Dao, Duo Duo tended to use longer, more flowing lines, and paid more attention to sound and rhetoric.

1984

Some of his poems border on the essayistic, such as the 1984 Lessons also translated as Instruction (诲教), which spoke for China's "lost generation" as much as Bei Dao's Answer.

1989

In 1989, Duo Duo having been witness to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, as fortune had it was booked on a plane on 4 June to London where he was due to give a poetry reading at the British Museum.

He went on to live for many years in the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.

His poetic language went through another shift, taking up the themes of exile and rootlessness.

In the absence of a Chinese-speaking community, Duo Duo began to use the Chinese language more self-consciously.

Sometimes his poems border on the impenetrable yet are highly effective, such as the poem Watching the Sea (看海).

1993

A good selection of the translations was published by American Poetry Review in 1993, which became a milestone for Chinese poetry published in this magazine.

2004

In 2004, Duo Duo returned to China and began to teach at Hainan University.

2009

In 2009, a jury representing nine countries selected Duo Duo as the 2010 winner of the $50,000 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, making him the award's 21st laureate and the first Chinese author to win the prize.

He is also associated with many respected Chinese literary festivals and awards, such as Yinchuan Poetry Prize and others.

The author and academic Gregory B. Lee has translated many of Duo Duo's poems into English, and has written about the poet's work, most recently in his book China's Lost Decade.

Jin Zhong 金重( Jone Guo, USA) was also one of the earliest translators of Duo Duo's poetry.

2010

Duo Duo was awarded the 2010 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

Duo Duo was born in Beijing, China.

As a youth in the Cultural Revolution, he was sent down to the countryside in Baiyangdian (白洋淀), where he began reading and writing poetry.

Several of his schoolmates would also become famous as members of the underground poetry movement described as "Misty" by the authorities: Bei Dao, Gu Cheng and Mang Ke.

Duo Duo's early poems are short and elliptical, in which some see barbed political references.

In his early poems, there are numerous intertextual links to Western poets such as Charles Baudelaire, Marina Tsvetaeva and Sylvia Plath.