Ricerc@Sapienza

Through a critical analysis of some articles in the column “New literary and artistic tendencies in the post-WWI period” written by Mao Dun and published in the Fiction Monthly (Xiaoshuo yuebao), this paper aims to examine the new editorial policy that Mao Dun tried to impress on the periodical to spread and encourage the creation of a “New Literature”. In the paper some articles written by Mao Dun in 1922, dedicated to Italian literature after the First World War, will be analysed.