Běi Dǎo de míngjù 'bēibǐ shì bēibǐ zhě de tōngxíngzhèng' guǎng wéi chuánsòng.
Bei Dao's famous line 'Baseness is the passport of the base' is widely quoted.
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The pen name 北岛 ('Northern Island') evokes the loneliness and coldness the poet felt in 1970s Beijing. His poem 《回答》 (The Answer) became an anthem of the 1989 democracy movement, leading to years of exile.
