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
Dong Xi Old Zhao Two-Times 4
Bi Feiyu The Deluge 20
Wang Anyi In the Belly of the Fog 48
Ye Mi The Hot Springs on Moon Mountain 62
Xu Haofeng The Master 86
Chen Qiufan Balin 146
Di An Beyond the Western Pass 192
Gong Ziming Déjà vu 204
Pan Xiangli Snow Deep， I’ll Be Waiting for You at Mei Nong 222
Translators 242