Bei Ta lives in Beijing and serves for National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature as a professional poet, critic and translator. He has published around 30 books such as poetry book “Rusting Hour Hands”, “A Rolling Stone Gathers Mosses” and “Serpents Snuggling Streets---Le Spleen de Pekin”, poetics book “Lightening One’s Own Abyss---a Selection of Essays on Poetics” and translation book “A Selection of Rabindranath Tagore’s Poems”, etc. His poetry manuscripts are collected by Shanghai Municipal Library.