Alice C Liu

The Hunter: A Middle-aged Urban Zen Fable

Pathlight Autumn 2013

"All these behaviors appear in some form in the stories and poems featured in this issue – not necessarily as explicit themes, but more often as organic parts of narrative background. Likewise, the metaphor of the Lost and Found box isn’t offered as a standard for reading, but rather as an angled mi...

Pathlight Summer 2013

For China, "more, better, bigger, faster" has been the only doctrine of development for the last thirty-five years. Resources disappear and outward identities - countrysides, communities, relationships - are forcibly repackaged in modern materials in the interest of progress. Then, one high-speed tr...

Pathlight Winter 2012

Pathlight is a magazine of Chinese fiction and poetry in English translation.The Winter 2012 issue, published shortly after Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, features exclusive Mo-Yan-related content such as a previously-untranslated short story, interview, and critical overview.The...

Pathlight Summer 2014

The Summer 2014 edition of Pathlight magazine focuses on issues to dowith gender -- femininity, masculinity, and things neither or both.The men of a migrant family all fall prey to the same wasting sicknessin Li Zishu's hallucinatory "The Northern Border"; male-femaleinteractions are handled with su...

Pathlight Spring 2014

The Spring 2014 edition features work by ethnic minority writers andpoets. Some are tales of the customs and histories of other people:Mongolian herders in Ayonga's "To the Goat-Dipping," a satirical take onfacial hair's role in Uyghur society in Memtimin Hoshur's "The MustacheDispute," and Artai's ...

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 hu...