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Chinese Literature Magazine


                       

      Chinese Literature was an English-language magazine of Chinese literature in translation, which also often included paintings by Chinese artists. It was founded in 1951 by Yeh Chun-chan (叶君健), Sidney Shapiro, Yang Xianyi, and Gladys Yang, and had its headquarters in Beijing. In 1956 publication of the magazine was taken over by the government-run Foreign Languages Press. It ceased publication at the end of 2000, though its website posted some new material for a while after that.

      Chinese Literature began as a quarterly publication in October 1951, was a bi-monthly (6 issues) in 1958, was a monthly magazine from 1959 through 1983, then a quarterly again from 1984 through 1999. In its final year of publication, in 2000, it was once again a bi-monthly. According to the Wikipedia, over 2000 writers and artists were featured in its issues.

      In 1964 a quarterly edition in French was also added (Littérature chinoise). We don’t know when the French edition ceased publication.

      If you have any of the missing issues below and are willing to donate, loan or sell them, we would like to obtain them for scanning and posting. Please contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net


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