Judy Polumbaum, in Poets & Writers Magazine (Jan.-Feb. 1995), 72 Spring St., New York, N.Y. 10012.
Most observers of cultural developments in China assumed that the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and massacre would have an extremely chilling effect, particularly on Chi- nese literature. But the cultural frost was not as severe as expected. Indeed, literature in China seems to be flourishing today, reports Polumbaum, a journalism professor at the University of Iowa. In the past year alone, about...