From their website:
Chutzpah! was originally Tiannan, a literary magazine dedicated to vernacular folk writing founded in 1982 by the Guangdong Vernacular Artists’ Association. In 2005, Modern Media Group purchased the magazine and converted it into a book review magazine called Modern Book Review. In 2011, it was renamed Chutzpah! and transformed into a new literary bimonthly. Chutzpah, a Yiddish word originally meaning "insolence" and "impertinence," entered English with the added connotations of "audacity" and "sheer nerve." We at Chutzpah! take this to encompass "innovation" and "experimentation." Chutzpah! and Tiannan are now the Chinese and English names of the magazine, reflecting its outer image and inner spirit.
China’s literary magazine market is filled with diverse products of varying quality. Most either chase ephemeral fashions, offering a fast-food-like reading experience, or indulge in narcissistic ivory-tower navel-gazing. Fashionable magazines strive for visual effect, padding beautiful images with writing that is shallow and out of date, while highbrow magazines yoked to outdated editing frameworks do a poor job of attracting readers. No magazine provides in-depth reading and visual experience at the same time. Chutzpah! aims to fill this gap, exploring new ideas and literary forms and creating a fresh, modern kind of reading experience.
Chutzpah!’s domestic serial number in the PRC is CN 44-1181/I, and its International Standard Serial Number is ISSN1004-6399. The magazine is 185mm X 230mm, and each issue runs for more than 260 pages, partially printed in color. Each issue contains a “parasite” of selected English translations of the content, called Peregrine. Chutzpah! releases on the 1st of the month once every two months, domestically and internationally, and is available in bookstores and at newsstands. The hard copy of the magazine features in-depth reading, and the accompanying website is an online space dedicated to domestic and international literary news, as well as an open forum for the authors, editors, and readers. The print magazine, with its bimonthly cycle, cannot instantaneously capture the happenings of the literary world, so the website strives to provide real-time information, featuring content from the magazine as well as weekly, sometimes daily, updates..
