Qin Xiaoyu (China, 1974) spent his youth as a shepherd boy with his grandfather, but returned to his home when he was seven, where his father, the poet Lin Qing, made him enthusiastic about poetry. In his own words, Xiaoyu was ‘addicted’ to classical poetry when he began to write poems himself. While studying Industrial Engineering, he founded the literary magazine Genesis and self-published the collection Dream Away. Since 2001 he has lived and worked in Beijing, where he contributed to the literary forum Poemlife, released a collection of essays on the development of Chinese poetry since the seventies, and published a number of influential articles. He also worked on Jade Ladder, a collection of contemporary and newly translated Chinese poetry. Over the course of the coming year, he will also finish his own collection of 'contemporary classical Chinese poems’.

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