Chinese Lit 101 | China Hang-Up

With the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, China embarked on a hundred-year literary journey that has been at times cosmopolitan, political, bawdy, thoughtful, elegant, critical, playful, pensive and blatantly commercial. But what are mainland youth reading today?

To answer that query, and to help us chart a course through the last century of mainland lit, we’ve brought in Alice Xin Liu and Eric Abrahamsen, co-editors of Pathlight: a literary magazine that translates some of the best new Chinese writing and poetry into English. So strap in, hold on, and enjoy the comprehensive author list we’ve provided below. It’s on the house.

Footnote: Well-read listeners will note that in our haste we skipped right over one of the early 20th century’s big names, Lao She 老舍! For more on his contributions check out his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_She

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Links:

Pathlight Magazine
http://paper-republic.org/pubs/pathlight/
http://pathlightmag.tumblr.com/

Paper Republic
http://paper-republic.org/

Author list:
(All the writers below also have pages at Paper Republic: http://paper-republic.org/authors/)

1. Post-Qing/Republican Era

Lu Xun 鲁迅
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xun