Paris, 1992 Photo by Zhiping Wang used with permission. Bei Dao (pseudonym of Zhao Zhenkai), one of Chinas foremost poets of the misty school, was born in 1949 in Beijing. Both his father, an administrative cadre, and his mother, a medical doctor, came from traditional, middle-class Shanghai families. During the Cultural Revolution, Bei joined the Red Guard movement, expecting a spirit of ...