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The name of this journal can be rendered in English as Modern Han Poetry but also as Modern Chinese Poetry or Modern Poetry in Chinese. The journal aspires to a nationally inclusive scope that exceeds the regional. Modern Han Poetry is generally seen as embodying continuity with Today and The Survivors, especially in some of its central people, such as Mang Ke and Lao E (= E Fuming).
A notable difference is that Modern Han Poetry is anything but Beijing-centric. While the journal was ultimately managed from Beijing, successive issues were edited in various other cities.
The journal was established at least partly in conscious reaction to the cultural purge after the suppression of the 1989 Protest Movement remembered as June Fourth, which made the need for alternative, unofficial channels for poetry acute once more. It exudes a sense of responsibility for safeguarding the avant-garde on the national level. The editorial board and the list of contributors reads like a who's who in poetry across the PRC.
Text in simplified characters (Jiantizi)
from 1992 onwards two issues in one.