[1] Although often associated with the Misty Poets,[2] he considers himself of a younger generation and dismisses the label.
He was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang (Black Dragon River) in the northernmost province of China.
[3] Fei began editing the banned literary journal Lone Army.
[4] He was arrested in 1983 when a Communist Party loyalist had spotted him editing in a classroom in Harbin.
In 1989, he founded the organization "Chinese Writers in Exile" in Berkeley.