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Armijn Pane is the co-founder of the literary journal, Pujangga Baru. Throughout the 1930s Armijn wrote many poems, short stories, and literary criticism. He worked briefly as an editor at the Balai Pustaka publishing house. He is considered as one of the many writers who laid the groundwork for Generation '45 writers. He also published a history of the Chinese since the 19th century and a book on Indonesian language development. John H. McGlynn has translated several dozen publications under his own name, and through the Lontar Foundation, which he co-founded in 1987, has ushered into print close to two hundred books on Indonesian language, literature, and culture. He is the Indonesian country editor for MĀNOA, a literary journal published by the University of Hawai'i Press; the senior editor for I-Lit, an on-line journal focusing on Indonesian literature in translation; a contributing editor to Words Without Borders and Warscapes, U.S. based literary journals; and an editor advisor for Jurnal Sastra, an Indonesian-language on-line journal. He is also a frequent speaker at seminars both in Indonesia and abroad.