Background
Yip was born in Guangdong province, China, and at the age of twelve moved to Hong Kong, where he started writing poetry and was active on the poetry scene.
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Wai-lim Yip
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Education
He graduated from National Taiwan University (Bachelor, 1959) and went on to National Taiwan Normal University (Master of Arts, 1961), where he did a thesis on Thomas Stearns Eliot and translated "The Waste Land." In 1963 he went to the United States to attend the Iowa Writers" hop at the University of Iowa, whose director, Paul Engle, went to Taipei to negotiate permission for Yip"s wife Tzu-mei and their daughter to leave Taiwan. He received an Master of Fine Arts in 1964.
Career
He then did graduate work at Princeton University, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy in comparative literature in 1967. In the same year he joined the faculty of University of California, San Diego, with which he has been affiliated ever since. In 1970 he returned to National Taiwan University as a visiting professor of comparative literature.
In 1980 he joined the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a visiting professor
Since then, he has visited mainland China many times, teaching comparative literature at Peking University and Tsinghua University. In recent years he has been the object of considerable attention in China, with exhibitions of his archives and conferences devoted to his poetry, as well as publication of his Complete in nine volumes.
