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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2018/12/15/meng-lang-passes-away-1/" target="_blank">Meng Lang passes away (1)</a></h3>
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<p>Thank you for this posting.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>A few more links available now (on his passing away, on his work, and more):</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/poet-12142018111833.html">https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/poet-12142018111833.html</a></p>
<p><a href="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://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/</a></p>
<p><a href="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%9D">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%9D</a><a href="https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QY2b-_s17pUh944LwgrdyQ">https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QY2b-_s17pUh944LwgrdyQ</a></p>
<p><a href="https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Meng_Lang_trans.pdf">https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Meng_Lang_trans.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.asiancha.com/content/view/907/299/">https://www.asiancha.com/content/view/907/299/</a><a href="https://www.asiancha.com/content/view/911/116/">https://www.asiancha.com/content/view/911/116/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2143965/hong-kong-poet-and-supporter-late-dissident-liu-xiaobo">https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2143965/hong-kong-poet-and-supporter-late-dissident-liu-xiaobo</a></p>
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<li>A few tributes on Twitter:<br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/Magnus_Fiskesjo/status/1072880007603765249">https://twitter.com/Magnus_Fiskesjo/status/1072880007603765249</a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/degewa/status/1072863969965043715">https://twitter.com/degewa/status/1072863969965043715</a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/tengbiao/status/1072859114529832960">https://twitter.com/tengbiao/status/1072859114529832960</a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/nadmussen/status/1072890180640616454">https://twitter.com/nadmussen/status/1072890180640616454</a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/beilingwriter/status/1073552224188456963">https://twitter.com/beilingwriter/status/1073552224188456963</a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/HuaYong798/status/1073646382882279424">https://twitter.com/HuaYong798/status/1073646382882279424</a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/ChipRolley/status/1072920830882078720">https://twitter.com/ChipRolley/status/1072920830882078720</a></li>
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<p>--Sincerely,</p>
<p>Magnus Fiskesjö <a href="mailto:nf42@cornell.edu">nf42@cornell.edu</a></p>
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