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
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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