Overseen by the China Writers Association, People's Literature Magazine is the People's Republic of China's first national literary magazine. For more than seventy years it has contributed greatly to the promotion and prosperous development of literature in China, and has been an essential journal of modern Chinese literature for foreign Sinological institutions and libraries alike.

CONTENTS
Alai Three Grassworms 4
Su Tong The Multimeter 98
Tie Ning Meimei Had Never Seen the Mountains 132
Wang Jinkang The Lost Treasure 146
Wu Yan September Sunshine 164
Jiang Yun The Red Detachment of Women 174
Zhang Wei Snow by the Sea 194
Wei Wei Dressing Up 224
Xiao Fuxing Late Osmanthus 258
Translators 274