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Meng Lang passes away (1)
Thank you for this posting.
I myself first knew Meng Lang in the 1980s when I was also very much into literature and poetry (and translations), and worked in Beijing; Meng Lang and I rejoined contact again in recent years, over the Chinese state kidnapping in late 2015 of our fellow friend, Gui Minhai, the Swedish citizen and HK publisher who was also part of the same poetry and literary circles in China in the 1980s onwards. In exile, Meng Lang devoted much time and energy to the Independent Chinese PEN club he co-directed, and especially to defending and helping imprisoned fellow writers, including Gui Minhai, and I much admire him for it.
I wrote on Twitter, that I will always remember him as the kind, warm, fundamentally decent human being that he was. Brave, which you used, is another most suitable word for Meng Lang. I think there will be many more tributes to Meng Lang and his life's work.
A few more links available now (on his passing away, on his work, and more):
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/poet-12142018111833.html
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2018/12/%e6%b1%89%e5%b0%8a2-%e5%ad%9f%e6%b5%aa%ef%bc%9a%e6%88%91%e6%8a%8a%e6%88%91%e5%89%a9%e4%b8%8b%e7%9a%84%e6%9c%80%e5%90%8e%e4%b8%80%e7%82%b9%e5%8b%87%e6%95%a2%e7%94%a8%e5%ae%8c/
https://www.hk01.com/%E5%8D%B3%E6%99%82%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B/270444/%E6%9B%BE%E4%B8%BB%E7%B7%A8%E5%8A%89%E6%9B%89%E6%B3%A2%E7%B4%80%E5%BF%B5%E8%A9%A9%E9%9B%86-%E8%A9%A9%E4%BA%BA%E5%AD%9F%E6%B5%AA%E5%9B%A0%E8%82%BA%E7%99%8C%E5%9C%A8%E6%B8%AF%E7%97%85%E9%80%9Dhttps://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QY2b-_s17pUh944LwgrdyQ
https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Meng_Lang_trans.pdf
https://www.asiancha.com/content/view/907/299/https://www.asiancha.com/content/view/911/116/
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2143965/hong-kong-poet-and-supporter-late-dissident-liu-xiaobo
A few tributes on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Magnus_Fiskesjo/status/1072880007603765249
https://twitter.com/degewa/status/1072863969965043715
https://twitter.com/tengbiao/status/1072859114529832960
https://twitter.com/nadmussen/status/1072890180640616454
https://twitter.com/beilingwriter/status/1073552224188456963
https://twitter.com/HuaYong798/status/1073646382882279424
https://twitter.com/ChipRolley/status/1072920830882078720
--Sincerely,
Magnus Fiskesjö nf42 at cornell.edu
by denton.2 at osu.edu on December 15, 2018
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