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Issue # 11 of the Northeast Asia Poetry Journal lists its producers as the Northeast Asia Poetry Society (东北亚诗社). Issue # 12, dated December 2000, is simply called Northeast Asia (东北亚) and subtitled Modern Han Poetry Texts for the New Century or Modern Poetry in Chinese: Texts for the New Century (新世纪现代汉诗文本). The journal calls itself "internal material, for the provision of exchange" (内部资料, 提供交流).
In issue # 11, an "Exhibition of Modern Han Poetry and Theory from China" or "Exhibition of Modern Poetry in Chinese and Theory from China" (中国现代汉诗及理论大展), the journal combines a regional (Heilongjiang) identity with aspirations towards national inclusiveness. This is visible in a special section devoted to Heilongjiang poets, and one devoted to "Out-of-Province Poets" or, more precisely, "Poets from [Other] Provinces" (外省诗人), from elsewhere in the country.
This usage can be read as a subversive turn-around of a term usually denoting poets from "the provinces" - that is, as opposed to the capital Beijing. In this latter, common usage, Out-of-Province was one of the most aggressively operative notions in the 1998-2000 Intellectual-Popular polemic. Perceived by the Popular side as a derogatory term employed by the Intellectuals, Popular critics appropriated it as a proud epithet.
Text in simplified characters (Jiantizi)