Path Light, the new English-language journal produced by Paper Republic and People’s Literature 人民文学, is beginning to have a web presence. Sign up here for information & notification on news and new issues. And as an added bonus, here’s the table of contents of the first issue, including four Xi Chuan pieces in my translation:

Feature: 8th Mao Dun Literature Prize

Zhang Wei	You Are on the Highland
Liu Xinglong	Holy Heaven’s Gate
Liu Zhenyun	A Word is Worth Ten Thousand Words

Fiction / Non-Fiction

Jiang Yitan	‘China Story’
Di An	‘Williams’ Tomb’
Qi Ge	‘The Sugar Blower’
Xiang Zuotie	‘A Rare Steed for the Martial Emperor’ and ‘Raising Whales’
Li Juan	‘The Winter of 2009’ and ‘The Road to Weeping Spring’

Poetry

Lei Pingyang	Prayer-Poem on Mt. Jinuo, White Herons, Keeping a Cat, Going Home for a Funeral, The Myna Bird Asks a Question, Collectivist Insect Calls, and Abandoned City
Hou Ma	Bloodsucking Rapture, Subway, Li Hong’s Kiss and A Wolf? In Sheep’s Clothing?
Sun Lei	Travel
Yu Xiang	Sunlight Shines Where It’s Needed, My House, They, A Gust of Wind, Low Key, It Goes Without Saying, Holy Front and Street
Wong Leung Wo	At Midnight, I See Your Shoes in the Bathroom, Father, This is the Last Day, The Story of Santa and I Thought We Wouldn’t Meet Again
Xi Chuan	The Body and History, Ill Fortune H 00325, Looking at the Mural in the Ruicheng Temple of Eternal Joy and Dragon

Editor’s Pick