ASIAN POET/SHORT FILMS WRITER: Zhao Zhenkai “Bei Dao” Zhao Zhenkai also known as Bei Dao is a Chinese man born in Beijing, China. He is one of the most outstanding, extraordinary and illustrious Chinese poets of his generation. He is seen and considered by many to be one of the greatest writers of modern China. Bei Dao which literally means "Northern Island" is the pen name of this Chinese poet and he has won numerous international prizes for his poetry, was separately nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is also an author of short stories. He is known through his writings as a critical thinker who creatively constitutes a driving force in culture and is seen as a pervasive, irrepressible media machine that relentlessly turns lives into plots and human voices into carefully twinkling sound bites. The main concern of Bai's poetry at this time is a call for the reimposition of personal space and the ordinariness of life against the general destitution of humanity in China over the past decade. Bai wrote many poems that challenge the issue of corrupt society, abuse of power, and the bloody landscape of fascist dictatorship in China. Some of Bei Dao's books of poetry and essays include Blue House (2000), Unlock (2000), Midnight Gate (2005), The August Sleeper (1988), Old Snow (1991), and at the Sky's Edge Poems (1991-1996 ). ) and without title. I will present the poem “Requiem” by Bei Dao which appeared in the poetry collection “Old Snow” (1991). Bei Dao wrote this poem in memory of the dead civilians who protested and were…half of paper…cannot be shared by Chinese legal media. Furthermore, despite his repeated rejection of the label “political poet,” the political reading of his work remains a maddening ongoing practice and, fortunately for him, cannot avoid being read by his Chinese readers in the social context of contemporary China. (MLA 7th edition)Li, Dian. "Ideology and Conflict in Bei Dao Poetry." Modern Chinese Literature 9.2 (Fall 1996): 369-385. Rpt. in Criticism of Poetry. Ed. Michelle Lee. vol. 130. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Literature Resource Center. Network. 6 April 2014.Prezi.” 'Requiem' by Bei Dao” January 10, 2013/>