Pathlight, Spring 2013

Pathlight is a magazine of Chinese fiction and poetry in English translation.


The Spring 2013 edition is themed around "The Future": stories about the

future of China, the future of technology, and the future of individual

lives. Stories by Liu Cixin, Hao Jingfang, and Xing He explore worlds

where human genetics have become mankind's plaything. Professor Wu Yan

provides an overview of Chinese science fiction. New stories from Han

Shaogong and Can Xue lie at opposite ends of the spectrum between the

prosaic and the dreamlike.


This issue's poetry section is curated by Chinese poet Yi Sha, and

features young Chinese poets that have been selected for his influential

New Poetry Canon series.