No. 50 ((Autumn 1998)
| Contents | |
| 4 | RICHARD KING: Writings on the Urban Youth Generation |
| 10 | GUO XIANHONG: The Journey: excerpts (translated by Richard King) |
| 18 | Propaganda for Rustication: Poetry Collection and Red Letters Home |
| WANG XIPENG: A Group of Urban Youths is on Its Way (translated by Richard King) CHEN JINGHUA : Our Will to Settle Here Will Never Fail (translated by Richard King) AN ZANLUN: Stepping Boldly into the Kitchen (translated by Chu Chiyu) | |
| 24 | HUA TONG: Yan'an Seeds (translated by Mark Caltonhill) |
| 37 | ZHU LIN: The Sobbing Lancang River: excerpts (translated by Richard King) |
| 53 | Eight Verses of a Girl (translated by Ian Chapman) |
| 55 | LIANG XIAOSHENG: For the Sake of the Harvest (translated by Daniel Bryant and Yixi Zhang) |
| 83 | GAN TIESHENG : The Reunion (translated by Mark Caltonhill) |
| 93 | DENG XIAN: Dream of the Chinese Urban Youth: excerpts (translated by Richard King) |
| 105 | SHU TING: The Cry of a Generation (translated by Richard King) |
| 109 | YE XIN: The Wages of Sin: excerpts (translated by Ian Chapman) |
| 124 | The Oriental Decameron: excerpts (translated by Rita Lin) |
| FENG TAI: A Soul Departed Before Its time FU LUJIAN: The Humiliation of the Dead XIN CHENG: Ties of Friendship Solid as Mountains | |
| 134 | XING QI: Grassland Poems (translated by Song Xianlin and Gary Sigley) |
| 140 | Youth Equation: Narratives by Fifty Female Urban Youth from Beijing: excerpts |
| LU QINGHE: Girls Grow Up and Then They Marry (translated by Alison Bailey) ZHANG PING: An Earnest Search (translated by Rita Lin) | |
| 154 | WANG XIAOYING: Faces Remembered (translated by Jennifer Eagleton) |
| 158 | Notes on Authors |
| 160 | Notes on Contributors |