Hand in hand

High-profile authors from China, Japan and South Korea decide to take regional literature forward, Mei Jia reports.

Writers from China, Japan and South Korea recently met in Beijing and Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, to brainstorm on literature in the region and the world.

China's Nobel Prize winner in literature, Mo Yan, and more than 30 other writers from the three countries gathered in the Chinese capital for the five-day China-South Korea-Japan Forum of East Asian Literature that ended with a "writers night" on Tuesday in Qingdao.