Editor's Note
By Yang Haocheng
Featured Author: Zhou Meisen
In the Name of the People (An Excerpt)
A Tribute to Balzac
Critique
From New Historical Fiction to New Political Fiction--A study guide to Zhou Meisen by He Shaojun
Interview
Zhou Meisen: One Step Closer to Balzac by Shu Jinyu
Articles
Nationalism, Individualism, and Class: Intersecting Itineraries for Xiangtu Literature in Republican-Era Literary Criticism by Mark McConaghy
Emperor Huizong and the Lantern Festival in Song Times by Han Lifeng
Short Stories
Leftover Man by Bi Feiyu
Wang Family Village, The World by Bi Feiyu
The Nighthawk by Ye Zhaoyan
Purple Cloud Lake by Ye Zhaoyan
Prose
The Little Hand Reaching for the Night Sky--From the journal of a single mother by Zhao Yiru
Poems
Eight Poems by Cheqianzi
Art
The Past and the Future: On My Pursuit in Oil Painting by Chen Shining
Emotions Flowing Unrestrained from the Brushtip: On the Xieyi Qualities of Chen Shining's Oil Paintings by Shen Xinggong