One of the foremostpractitioners of contemporary Chinese poetry in Taiwan, Chen Li has translated,with his wife Chang Fen-ling, the works of many poets—such as Plath, Heaney,Neruda, Paz, Tranströmer, Szymborska, Yosano Akiko—into Chinese. He subtlycombines in his poetry the elements of Western modernism and post-modernismwith the merits of Oriental poetics and the Chinese language, seekingincessantly to find a balance between art and life, suffering and joy, dreamand reality. In 2012, he was invited to the Olympic poetry festival (PoetryParnassus) in London as the poet representing Taiwan.