WANG Jiaxin was born in 1957 in the Province of Hubei. After having worked in the countryside for three years as a consequence of the Cultural Revolution, he studied at university, then worked as a reader for a poetry magazine.

From 1992 to 1994, he traveled as a writer to England, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Since 1994, he has been a lecturer on modern Chinese literature and comparative literary studies at the Beijing Institute for Education Sciences.

He has published poetry in China and in England: Stairway (1991), Watching (1993), Nightingale in his own time and The Wandering Rocks in 1996. He works en lives in Beijing.

Date: 01.12.2009  Place: Poëziecentrum, Gent

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Editor: Dong Jirong