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<p class="p1">Zhaiyi (<span class="s1">摘译</span>) database: Introduction</p>
<p class="p2">The <a href="http://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/"><span class="s2">Institute of Chinese Studies Heidelberg</span></a> holds a full run of <i>Zhaiyi </i>(Selected Translations). Because it will not be found in the great collections outside the PRC and is of interest for the study of Chinese literary and cultural interactions with the world at a time when such interactions were at a low ebb, it is made accessible on-line here for scholarly research in a fully searchable version. <i>Zhaiyi</i> was “internally published” by the Shanghai Renmin Chubanshe from late 1973 to the end of 1976. It belonged to a group of journals starting publication in Shanghai around the same time, namely the literary journal <i>Zhaoxia</i> <span class="s3">朝霞</span> (Morning Dawn), a journal devoted to theoretical questions of science and philosophy, <i>Ziran bianzhengfa</i> <span class="s3">自认辩证法</span> (Dialectics of Nature), and a journal of political theory and criticism, <i>Xuexi yu pipan</i> <span class="s3">学习与批判</span> (Study and Critique). These were not marked as “internally published,” but they were all also discontinued shortly after the end of the Cultural Revolution.</p>
<p class="p2"><i>Zhaiyi</i> (print run 15.000) in a way took the place of <i>Yiwen</i> <span class="s3">译文</span> (Translation Literature), by far the most widely read literary journal in the PRC during the 1950s. <i>Yiwen</i> was published between 1953 and 1958, when its title was changed to <i>Shijie Wenxue</i> <span class="s3">世界文学</span> (World Literature) . It was suspended in 1965 and between 1967 and 1976. <i>Zhaiyi</i>, however, had a much narrower focus than <i>Yiwen</i> and its successor. Its purpose was to document social and political developments and conflicts in the Soviet Union, the US, and Japan through translations, synopses, criticism and news summaries of works of fiction, film, theater, and poetry. In issue 1 (1976) the editors responded in kind to readers and potential writers who would have preferred greater emphasis on introducing foreign works of high literary quality. The journal, they said, was to serve as internal reference for researchers studying these three societies (and not as a window to world literature).</p>
<p class="p2">The importance of <i>Zhaiyi</i> lies in its providing one of the few Chinese windows to international culture at the time, the others being translations (in “white” or “yellow” binding without book number) with a much more restricted circulation. One will find in <i>Zhaiyi</i> full translations of Soviet works, Japanese film scripts, and North American works such as Neill Simon’s <i>Prisoner of Second Avenue</i> or works by Malcolm X, all of them coming with some literary and political comment. The selection criteria was not simply “black material” but the journal often also included “progressive” works whose critical take on the political and social situation of the country in question would highlight certain conflicts.</p>
<p class="p4">The Heidelberg Institute hopes that this resource will be of use to scholars. Interested scholars apply for access at: <span class="s2"><a href="http://uni-heidelberg.de/zhaiyi">http://uni-heidelberg.de/zhaiyi</a></span></p>
<p class="p5">Kind regards</p>
<p class="p5">Rudolf G. Wagner</p>
<p class="p5">Senior Professor, Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University, Cluster "Asia and Europe"</p>
<p class="p5">Associate, John K. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University</p> </div>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on June 16, 2015 </div>
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