Alice H Liu

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...

The Hunter: A Middle-aged Urban Zen Fable