September 3, 2010

A few years ago when I was on the editorial team of Renditions, we celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the magazine. We had a book exhibition with a festive opening ceremony and the publication of a very precious collection entitled The Renditions Experience 1973-2003 containing essays written by contributors to Renditions, including authors, translators and editorial staff, reflecting on their history with Renditions. Thirty years, no small feat to keep a magazine going that long, I thought.

But now in one of the recent posts on MCLC there is an article about Beijing Literature 北京文學 celebrating its sixtieth anniversary this month. The magazine was launched on 10 September 1950 as Beijing Literature and Arts and its title was changed to Beijing New Literature and Arts in 1971 and finally in October 1980 it became the present Beijing Literature.

According to the article which was originally published at Danwei.org, ‘the sixtieth anniversary commemorative issue includes reflections by a number of major authors on their history with Beijing Literature, as well as original fiction including a new novella by Cao Naiqian, whose five vignettes published under the title When I Think of You Late at Night, There is Nothing I Can Do appeared in the June 1988 issue of the magazine after receiving high praise from Wang Zengqi.’

Chinese literature keeps going strong, both in English and Chinese. For more information, please see the article by Joel Martinsen on Danwei.org and the website of Beijing Wenxue.

Written by: Audrey

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