{"title":"Cheow Thia Chan","description":"\u003cp\u003eCheow Thia Chan’s works explore the intricate tapestry of Malaysian identity through the lens of arts and culture. With a thoughtful and evocative style, the author delves into themes of heritage, memory, and the intersections of tradition and modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect reflective narratives that illuminate the richness of Malaysia’s multicultural landscapes, inviting a deeper appreciation of its social and artistic crossings. Cheow’s writing offers both a cultural journey and an insightful meditation on belonging and change.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"malaysian-crossings-by-cheow-thia-chan-9780231203395","title":"Malaysian Crossings","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMalaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalised on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favour mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. However, Mahua authors have produced creative and thought-provoking works that have won growing critical recognition, showing Malaysia to be a laboratory for imaginative Chinese writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHighlighting Mahua literature's distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors' grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness. He foregrounds the historical links between Malaysia and other Chinese-speaking regions, tracing how Mahua writers engage in the \"worlding\" of modern Chinese literature by navigating interconnected literary spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing on writers including Lin Cantian, Han Suyin, Wang Anyi, and Li Yongping, whose works craft signature literary languages, Chan examines narrative representations of multilingual social realities and authorial reflections on colonial Malaya or independent Malaysia as valid literary terrain. Delineating the inter-Asian \"crossings\" of Mahua literary production—physical journeys, interactions among social groups, and mindset shifts—from the 1930s to the 2000s, he contends that new perspectives from the periphery are essential to understanding the globalisation of modern Chinese literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy emphasising the inner diversities and connected histories in the margins, \u003cem\u003eMalaysian Crossings\u003c\/em\u003e offers a powerful argument for remapping global Chinese literature and world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463528235244,"sku":"9780231203395","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231203395-malaysian-crossings.jpg?v=1775034172"},{"product_id":"malaysian-crossings-by-cheow-thia-chan-9780231203388","title":"Malaysian Crossings","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMalaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalised on several fronts. 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