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Caratteri (Characters, the Italian edition of Pathlight) is a literary journal founded in 2014 by Renmin wenxue (People’s Literature), under the expert guidance of Shi Zhanjun and with editorial direction by Qiu Huadong, Patrizia Liberati, and Silvia Pozzi. Today, the Chinese editor-in-chief is Xu Zechen. Published by Beijing’s Foreign Languages Press, the journal explores contemporary Chinese literature, publishing stories and poems often by authors previously unpublished in Italy. Each issue is centred around a specific theme, and between 2016 and 2018, three bilingual editions were also released.

Issues in Italian

• Orientamenti (Compass), 2014

• Tempi (Times), 2015

• Visioni (Visions), 2016

• Città (Cities), 2017

• Le vie della seta (The Silk Road), 2018

• Mondi Futuri (Future Worlds), 2019

• Dei fiumi e dei laghi - Racconti wuxia (Of Rivers and Lakes – Wuxia Tales), 2020

• Tempi che corrono (Passing Times), 2021

• Vita vissuta (Lives Lived), 2024

Italian-Chinese bilingual issues

• Radici (Roots), 2016

• Impulsi (Impulses), 2017 

• Premio Lu Xun (Lu Xun Prize), 2018

Every year, Caratteri organizes a translation contest open to all aspiring translators from Chinese into Italian.

Issues up to 2019 are available in electronic format on major online platforms and in print (while supplies last) at the following bookstores:

Libreria Cortina Bicocca
Via dell’Innovazione 13, Milano
Tel. 02-66102401
bicocca[at]libreriacortinamilano.it

Orientalia
Via Cairoli 125, Roma
Tel. 06-4464956
info[at]orientalia-editrice.com

Issues from 2020 onward can be downloaded for free from this website using the links above.

Information: caratteri[at]yahoo.com

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