Literary journal puts authors abroad in focus

People's Literature, China's prestigious monthly literary journal, has dedicated its December issue to new overseas Chinese literature, with three novellas, one novel, one short story, one essay and a collection of poems.

According to editor Xu Zechen, all the contributors are those who left the Chinese mainland to go abroad after China's reform and opening up in 1979.

For instance, Chen Qian, author of Looking for the Wild Goose Flying South (望断南飞雁), went to the United States in 1989 to earn her Master's degree in electrical engineering and worked for a long time in the chip design industry, before becoming a freelance writer.