Spreading its words

Thanks to new editions in different languages, a Chinese magazine publisher is bringing the country's contemporary literature to the world, Mei Jia reports.

Son of a robber, a betrayed woman and a lonely boy.

When he read stories of these characters in the first German issue of Pathlight magazine, Enrico Brandt, cultural affairs officer at the German embassy in Beijing, says he could feel their pain as they tasted society's cruelty.