GTLF Session Highlights

No reader of modern Chinese literature in its globalizing mode will miss the recent spotlight on Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) narratives. Previously untapped, works from or about the Southeast Asian country are now read for bracing ideas on language, ethnicity and diaspora. In his monograph Malaysian Crossings, Chan Cheow Thia shows how the minor literary formation’s grasp of its own marginality in the world-Chinese literary space constitutes the threshold—instead of a hurdle—to creating signature aesthetic imprints that foster global outlooks.

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