Pathlight: New Chinese Writing

Pathlight is a new English-language literary magazine produced by Paper Republic and People's Literature Magazine (《人民文学》杂志社). Pathlight aims to introduce the best new writing and poetry from China, with occasional detours.

Pathlight is currently available in print edition in select bookstores around China, and in ebook version from Amazon and the iTunes bookstore, see specific links below. We also offer university library subscriptions: if your university uses EBSCO we are listed with them, or can email us directly.

Please contact Pathlight Managing Editor Alice Xin Liu at alicexinliu@paper-republic.org with editorial inquiries. You can also sign up here for notifications on new issues of Pathlight magazine, and how to get them.

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Pathlight Issue 2012-3

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Mo Yan

  • Nobel Lecture
  • Mo Yan: A Date with the Master
  • An Interview with Mo Yan
  • Qiu Huadong: Rural Raconteur
  • Timeline of Achievements

Criticism

  • Shi Zhanjun: A Tale of Many Cities

Fiction

  • Deng Yiguang: Shenzhen is Located at 22°27’-22°52’ N
  • Xiao Hang: The Gift
  • Pan Xiangli: A Miraculous Sleigh Ride
  • Xu Yigua: How to Grow Bananas
  • Wang Shou: Death of a Playboy
  • Han Song: The Last Subway
  • Zhang Yiwei: Only Later
  • Xue Yiwei: The Taxi Driver
  • Dung Kai-cheung: Windows 98 and South Park

Poetry

  • Tai Kuang: Watching the Sunset from the World Trade Center, What do you need to build a skyscraper?, Rain Traffic Jam
  • Zhu Ling: World Map, The Intersection of Nanjing Rd. and Beijing Rd.
  • Ou Ning: Lost and Regained, Empty City, San Yuan Li
  • Wang Yin: White Sea, Time of Flowers, The Scent of Autumn, No. 9 New Continental Village
  • Wang Xiaolong: Men Must Also Give Birth Once, Surgical Ward, The Taxi Always Comes at the Moment of Despair, A Surplus Economy
  • Yangzi: As Night Fell, It Started Raining, Yellow Flowers Beneath the Overpass
  • Huang Jinming: A Corner of Milky Way Park, In Pearl Square, A Building’s History of Collapse
  • Yao Feng: Amsterdam, Early Morning in Rio de Janeiro, Breakfast at Lisboa, Pattaya, Joyous Pavilion
  • Liao Weitang: Minibus 9, Aubade, Ballad of Queen’s Pier, Written in Fog, A Song of Departure for the Pearl River Delta, Summer 2012, Hong Kong Rain
  • Yang Xiaobin: The Dude Sonnet, Female Bank Monogatari, A lively weekend in the underpass, A Boutique Called Hustler