People's Literature adds Japanese to its multilingual editions

Izumi Miyazaki, a Japanese expert with Tsinghua University, is drawn to well-translated contemporary Chinese writing.

But she is also touched by accounts of stressful lives depicted in books. An example being the struggle for better schooling for children.

"It's the same, whether in China or in Japan - the feelings are shared," Miyazaki says in fluent Mandarin at the recent launch of a Japanese edition of People's Literature magazine in Beijing. She is an avid reader of the magazine.