This love of contemporary Chinese literature led Malmqvist to supervise the EACS Project on Modern Chinese Literature, the fruit of which is a set of four volumes covering novels, short stories, poetry and drama.
也是對當代文學的關注和喜愛，馬悅然在歐洲漢學協會會長任內主持的幾項大研究計畫中，同時包括了一項名為「一九○○至一九四九年現代中國文學」的龐大編纂工作。這是一套包括長篇小說、短篇小說、詩、戲劇四巨冊的工具書。