Tjerita Roman

Among its authors were many of the notables of the Chinese Indonesian literary world including Njoo Cheong Seng, Pouw Kioe An, Tan Boen Soan, and Liem Khing Hoo.

[1][2][3] At first, it was printed by the firm Hahn & Co. in Surabaya, with capital provided by a businessman named Han Sing Thjiang, who was the owner of Liberty magazine.

[2] Ong Ping Lok, who in addition to being an editor wrote fiction under the pen name Monsieur Novel, often printed his pieces in the magazine.

The contents of the magazine also reflected shifting tastes among Chinese Indonesian readers; while publications of the 1910s had often consisted of historical martial arts or cloak-and-dagger stories set in China, Tjerita Roman mainly printed stories written and set in the contemporary Dutch East Indies.

[5] The magazine also sometimes printed stories or novels by women authors, which was unheard of before the 1920s in the Indies; these included Nyonya The Tiang Ek and The Liep Nio.