The Today Literary Magazine Archives, an important special collection at the City University of Hong Kong Library, is a collection of materials related to the last 30 years of the Today Literary Magazine. These materials include manuscripts, proof-read copies, illustrations, letters from readers, photographs and videotapes of activities, newspaper cuttings, books (collected essays and anthologies of poems) and literary magazines published in the late 1970’s and early 80’s by institutions of higher learning in Mainland China. They are extremely valuable and are an important source for research on modern Chinese literature and poetry, especially on the changes and developments in modern poetry in Mainland China.

This Archives is a generous donation by the publisher of the Today Literary Magazine and its chief editor Mr. Bei Dao who have entrusted to the City University of Hong Kong Library the safe custody of the materials for posterity. We in the Library are indeed greatly honoured and hereby put on record our deepest appreciation and gratitude to the donors. We further appeal to other publishers and writers to similarly support the preservation of literary materials, so as to facilitate research by other scholars and to jointly promote original writing and the freedoms of expression and publication.