Chen Jiaping
Chen Jiaping
Chen Jiaping is a poet and documentary filmmaker. He was born in April 1970 in Chongqing and currently resides in Beijing.
In 1998, he participated in the interviews and compilation of The Fallen Temple: Images of the Underground Poetry of the 1970s, which was selected as one of Southern Weekly’s Top Ten Books of the Year.
In 1999, he worked as an editor and journalist for the Reading and Theory sections of Xinjiang Economic Daily.
In 2000, he served as editor and later editor-in-chief of the “China Academic City” channel on Peking University Online's New Youth website.
In 2005, he became editor-in-chief of the China Academic Forum website.
In 2011, he published the poetry collection Mourning Shuihu. A seminar on the collection was held in 2016 at the former residence of Yin Haiguang in Taiwan.
In 2017, he directed the documentary Orphans, which won the 7th Houtian Film Award in 2018. The film was screened at the Universities Service Centre for China Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and added to its permanent collection. In 2021, it was also permanently archived by the Chinese Independent Film Archive at Newcastle University, UK.
In 2018, he directed The Daxing Fire and Poplars and Zhang Dongcui, both of which were permanently collected by Newcastle University's Chinese Independent Film Archive in 2021. The Daxing Fire was also selected for the NYU Independent Film Biennale in 2019.
In 2019, he directed The Politician, which was nominated at the 56th Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan.
In 2021, he completed the documentary An Unremarkable Era.
In 2022, he independently published the poetry collection The Cell and the Iris.
In the same year, he directed Only the Dawn Is Smiling, which was selected as one of the Top Ten Documentaries at the 2nd World Nomadic Film Festival. The film was also featured at the 1st Director's Art Exhibition in 2023.
In 2023, he independently published the poetry collection Morning Prayer, and won the 2nd Interview Literature Award from The Interviewer.
In 2024, he directed the documentary Poet Ma Yan, which was selected for the 2nd Director's Art Exhibition.
