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                                                                                                                                        <p><a href="http://www.ou.edu/clt">Chinese Literature Today | The University of Oklahoma</a></p>
<p><a href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/?attachment_id=14467#main" rel="attachment wp-att-14467"><img style="max-width:100%" class="size-full wp-image-14467 alignleft" src="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/files/2016/04/CLT-Issue-10-220px-t33u3g.jpg" alt="CLT-Issue-10-220px" /></a>Chinese Literature Today, the biannual literary magazine featuring Chinese literature</p>
<p class="p9">The 10th issue of <i>CLT</i> features the 2015 winner of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, screenwriter and novelist Chu T’ien-wen, plus a sampling of novellas by Han Shaogong, Xu Zechen, and Chi Zijian from <i>By the River: The Novella in Twenty-First-Century China</i>, an upcoming volume in the CLT book series with the University of Oklahoma Press Edited by Charles Laughlin, Liu Hongtao and Jonathan Stalling. Featured scholar Mark Bender takes readers on a tour of his new work on epic literature from southwest China. Rounding out the issue is a selection of avant-garde prose poetry  from experimental author Ya Shi.</p>
<p class="p11"><b>THE NOVELLA IN CHINESE LITERATURE</b></p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">6 Introduction, by Charles A. Laughlin with Liu Hongtao</p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">8 <i>Mountain Songs from the Heavens</i>, by Han Shaogong</p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">16 <i>“Creating the Old” in Literature</i>, by Han Shaogong</p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">19 <i>Voice Change</i>, by Xu Zechen 25 <i>Novellas, Contemporary Chinese Literature, and My Writing, </i>by Xu Zechen</p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">30 <i>A Flurry of Blessings</i>, by Chi Zijian 36 <i>River Water, </i>by Chi Zijian</p>
<p class="p2"><b>2015 NEWMAN PRIZE FOR CHINESE LITERATURE: CHU T’IEN-WEN</b></p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">38 Introduction, by Ping Zhu</p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">40 <i>Chu T’ien-wen’s </i>Shijimo de huali: <i>As Nominated for the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, </i>by Margaret Hillenbrand</p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">42 <i>We All Change into Somebody Else: In Acceptance of the 2015 Newman</i> <i>Prize for Chinese Literature, </i>by Chu T’ien-wen</p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">44 <i>Tribute to Chu T’ien-wen, </i>by Ban Wang</p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">46 <i>Three Times: Chu T’ien-wen on Writing, Screenwriting, and New Taiwan</i> <i>Cinema, </i>by Michael Berry</p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">58 <i>On Confessions, </i>by Chu T’ien-wen</p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">63 <i>On Myths and Riddles, </i>by Chu T’ien-wen</p>
<p class="p11"><b>THE PROSE POEMS OF YA SHI</b></p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">70 Introduction, by Nick Admussen</p>
<p class="p13" style="padding-left: 30px;">72  <i>The Cartoon Cat and Postmodern Poetry, </i>by Ya Shi</p>
<p class="p13" style="padding-left: 30px;">73  <i>Adultery and Lyric Poetry, </i>by Ya Shi</p>
<p class="p13" style="padding-left: 30px;">74  <i>Tight Corsets and the Narrativity of Poetry, </i>by Ya Shi</p>
<p class="p13" style="padding-left: 30px;">75  <i>An Ear of Grass and Pure Poetry, </i>by Ya Shi</p>
<p class="p11"><b>FEATURED SCHOLAR: MARK BENDER</b></p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">76 <i>From Appalachia to Liangshan: Translation, Collaboration, and the Research of Mark Bender, </i>by Timothy Thurston</p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">81 <i>The Art of Collaboration and the Work of Translation: An Interview with Mark Bender, </i>by Timothy Thurston</p>
<p class="p2" style="padding-left: 30px;">88 <i>Landscapes and Life-Forms in Cosmographic Epics from Southwest China, </i>by Mark Bender</p>
<p class="p11">In Every Issue</p>
<p class="p2">3 Editor’s Note</p>
<p class="p2">4 Contributors</p>
<p class="p2">98 Chinese Literature in Review</p>
<p class="p2">108 Pacific Bridge</p>
<p class="p14">This Issue’s Art</p>
<p class="p2">“Seductive Evolution of Animated Illuminations, 2013.” By Shih Chieh Huang. (Modification of fifteenth-century Renaissance period Murano glass chandelier. Combined with micro controller, computer cooling fans, LEDs, garbage bags, and plastic shrink wrap.) Image courtesy of the artist.</p>
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