Shanxing Wang is a contemporary

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and

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. Wang's first full-length book, ''Mad Science in Imperial City'', was published in 2005 by Futurepoem Books and was awarded the 2006

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for poetry. ''Mad Science'' combines Wang's past in the 1980s as an activist and scientist in

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with his current life as a poet in America.

Biography

He was born in

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Province of China in 1965 and studied

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from 1980 to 1987. As a faculty member at

Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT, ), colloquially known in Chinese as Beihua (北化, ''Běihuà'') or Huada (化大, ''Huàdà''), is a public technological university in mainland China. BUCT was founded in 1958 and is a part ...

, he was an active participant in the

Tiananmen Square Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square (; 天安门广场; Pinyin: ''Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng''; Wade–Giles: ''Tʻien1-an1-mên2 Kuang3-chʻang3'') is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, named after the eponymous Tiananmen (" ...

demonstrations during the spring of 1989. He moved to the United States in 1991 and did

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study in mechanical engineering at

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. In 2001, he began taking creative writing classes while teaching

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and eventually took further classes at the St. Mark's Poetry Project and

Naropa University Naropa University is a private university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, it is named for the 11th-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda. The university describes itself as B ...

. He currently lives in

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and is working on his second book to be published by Atelos.

References

External links

''Jacket Magazine'', Interview with Shanxing Wang, October 2007

Shanxing Wang's blog
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