2016
《過客書》 The Letters of Passerby
Poetry collection, published by Got One Publisher Sdn Bhd (有人出版社).
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Writing
Poetry collections and published columns
Published Books
2026
《女兒書》 Book of Daughter: Dwelling Poetically in a City on Sick
Poetry collection exploring fatherhood, published by Got One Publisher Sdn Bhd (有人出版社).
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Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2026-07-13
As a Homeland in a Foreign Land (作为他乡的原乡)
A review of Qiu Wanni's essay collection 在流牧地, on the spiritual 'homeland' she found while studying and traveling in Nanjing, China.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2026-05-05
Poetry as Resistance: On "How Much It Wanted to Kill My Okapi" (《祂多么想杀死我的㺢㹢狓》诗作为一种抵御)
A review of poet Chen Hongliang's collection, on writing as a way to resist how everyday life erodes a writer's passion for poetry.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2026-01-20
The Novelist's Power: Undertones of "Silk of Vengeance" (小说家手里的权柄：《仇丝》的弦外之音)
A review of Ma Tutu's novel 仇丝, based on a real tragedy, on the novelist's power to imagine and fill in the untold details of true events.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2025-11-17
The Reason for Travel (旅行的缘故)
A discussion of Wu Yanling's travel essay collection 移动的光, reflecting on what travel is really for — beyond sightseeing.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2025-07-30
513: The Weight of Remembering (五一三•忆述之沉重)
A reflection on personal and family memories of the May 13, 1969 racial riots, and the weight they still carry for the older generation.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2025-06-19
The Rose of Names (名字的薔薇)
A review of Weida's novel 眉妩, inspired by the real historical figure Chen Huizhen, on how a name shapes a woman's fate.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2025-02-10
Malaysia–Singapore Transnational Poetry Anthology (马新跨国诗选)
A review of the poetry anthology 新马文学高铁之新诗, on the shared literary lineage between Malaysian and Singaporean Chinese poets.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2024-10-21
Seeing the Artificial Girl, Starting from the Afterword (从后记开始看见人工少女)
A review of Gong Wanhui's novel 人工少女, on its use of speculative fiction to explore paternal grief and the transmission of memory.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2024-08-20
Our Martial World and Secret Societies (我们的武林与帮会)
A historical and literary analysis of fictional secret societies in colonial Southeast Asia and their cultural significance.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2024-07-09
The Garden's Map (花园的地图)
A review of Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists, tracing its three themes of memory, borrowed scenery, and maps.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2024-06-24
The Wolf Who Found a Window (寻着窗的狼)
A review of Fang Ken's 狼的日与夜, on living with lupus and the isolation of chronic illness.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2024-04-17
A Vulgar Land Beyond the Vulgar Land (流俗地以外的流俗地)
A review of Li Zishu's novel, on growing up in Malaysian Chinese new villages and the art of building a novel from short-story technique.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2024-03-19
Essays Move Us Because We've Lived Them Too (散文动人，因有共同经历)
A review of Leong Ching Fen's essay collection 野风波 (winner of the 36th Liang Shih-chiu Literature Award), on how shared experience gives essays their power to move readers.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2024-02-27
A Shonen-Style Novel (热血王道型小说)
A review of Na Tianqing's fantasy novel 狮子山传奇, read through the lens of shonen manga's 'friendship, effort, victory' formula.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2023-12-11
A Cautionary Fable Told Through Death (以死论生的警世寓言)
A review of forensic pathologist Chen Ranzhi's memoir, tracing its lineage back to the Song dynasty forensic text Washing Away of Wrongs.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2023-10-03
Field Murmurs (田野呢喃)
A review of Lin Yue's 失眠书, on a narrator with no fixed home, wandering restlessly from place to place.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2023-07-31
The Flowering Fruit Tree (开花的果树)
A review of poet Huang Yuanxiong's collection 等待一棵无花果树, on a life of hardship and the melancholy running through his verse.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2023-06-21
The Utmost Grief (极致的悲恸)
An essay on Sima Qian and Records of the Grand Historian, on enduring devastating loss to complete a life's work.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2023-05-23
The Quiet Room of Time (静的时光屋)
A review of Pei Yi's 时光密室, a diary-like record of time kept in a private, guarded room of memory.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2023-03-21
Deer-Body, Poet-Self (鹿人诗身)
A review of Zheng Tianjing's poetry, on the recurring image of the deer as the poet's own self.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2023-02-06
Return: On Na Tianqing's "Lonely Road" (归去来兮——读那天晴《寂寞公路》)
A review of Na Tianqing's novel 寂寞公路, on the tension between spiritual and physical departure and return.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2022-09-05
A Lyrical Radiance (抒情的光彩)
A review of Peng Jingyong's poetry collection 安全岛, on its lyricism across a decade of the poet's changing life.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2022-08-08
The Purity and Longing of a Young Poet's Verse (雏诗的纯粹与想望)
A review of the poetry collection 零号幻术, on the particular purity of a poet's earliest, youngest works.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2022-05-30
A Struggling Road (挣扎的路)
A review of Ma Nini Wei's 没有大路, a fragmented memoir centered on the author's mother and unresolved grief.
Read more →Sin Chew Daily — 「馬華讀立國」 column · 2022-04-25
A Qian Mu Anthology, Edited for Malaysians (为大马人编的钱穆选集)
A review of an anthology of Qian Mu's writings, edited for Malaysian readers to mark his time teaching at the University of Malaya.
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