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Produced by the Survivors Poetry Club in Beijing, The Survivor (aka in English as Survivor) is part of the legacy of Today (Jintian), visible in the involvement of Mang Ke, Yang Lian, Duoduo, and Lin Mang, together with critic Tang Xiaodu. Following two regular issues, a third issue appeared on the occasion of the First Survivors Poetry Festival in April 1989, during the turbulent months prior to the suppression of the 1989 Protest Movement remembered as June Fourth. The Festival was closely watched by the authorities, and the power was cut before the program was finished.
Almost thirty years later, in 2017, The Survivors / Survivor was revived as an online journal, still involving Mang Ke, Yang Lian, and Tang Xiaodu, together with younger authors.
Text in simplified characters (Jiantizi)
This collection has a copy of issue # 1 with an entirely black cover, but also contains a photocopy of an alternative cover, listing the journal's name and the issue number in white. Following the two regular issues, a third issue appeared on the occasion of the First Survivors Poetry Festival held in April 1989 "Shou jie xing cun zhe shi ge yi shu jie" (First Survivors Poetry Festival)