{{Short description|Chinese poet}} {{Infobox writer | name = Mang Ke | birth_date = | birth_place = China | occupation = Poet | nationality = Chinese }} thumb '''Mang Ke''' (芒克, original name ''Jiang Shiwei''), born in 1951,<ref name="howl">{{cite book |title= Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry|last1= Bei|first1= Dao|last2= Pei|first2= Tao|editor1-first= Tony|editor1-last=Barnstone|year= 1993|publisher= Wesleyan University Press|isbn= 0-8195-1210-9|page= Biography Notes XX|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qSzCeKE-zYEC&q=%22Jiang+Shiwei%22&pg=PR20|access-date= 2009-03-25}}</ref> is a prominent Chinese poet and co-founder (with Bei Dao) of the underground literary journal Jintian (''Today''),<ref name="20th">{{cite book |title= The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century|last1= McDougall|first1= Bonnie S.|last2= Louie|first2= Kam|year= 1997|publisher= Columbia University Press|isbn= 0-231-11084-7|page= 426|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=cOxLVO1xloQC&q=%22Jiang+Shiwei%22&pg=PA426}}</ref> which appeared irregularly between 1978 and 1980 before being shut down by the Chinese Government.<ref name="howl" />
Considered a member of the Misty Poets,<ref>[http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5663 A Brief Guide to Misty Poets] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412152855/http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5663 |date=2010-04-12 }}</ref> Mang Ke's works were never officially recognized and appeared primarily as photocopies.<ref name="howl" />
Mang Ke is also an accomplished painter.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=niMM4VuVRCYC&pg=PA134 Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature]</ref>
==Interviews== In 2015, he was interviewed by the Franco-Chinese online channel CAP33.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cap33.com/show.php?id=406 |title=航向法国/Cap33 Web TV |website=www.cap33.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210050344/http://www.cap33.com/show.php?id=406 |archive-date=2015-12-10}} </ref>
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