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Wong Yoon Wah

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in Perak, Malaysia

August 13, 1941

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Dr Wong Yoon Wah is a writer, poet, scholar and critic with an international following. He has published over 20 collections of prose and poetry in Chinese, and numerous articles on classical and modern Chinese literature, comparative literature and postcolonial Chinese literature. Born in 1941 in Perak, Malaysia, Wong grew up on a rubber plantation against the tumultuous backdrop of the Malayan Emergency and spent most of his childhood in a ‘new village’ set up by the British. He studied English literature at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University, and pursued his PhD in Chinese literature at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He later became the head of the Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. In 2002 ...more

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	Durians Are Not the Only Fruit by Wong Yoon Wah, Jeremy Tiang (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore (91st Meridian Books) by Alvin Pang (Goodreads Author) (Editor and Contributor), Peter Nazareth (Introduction), Indrajit (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Starry Island: New Writing from Singapore by Frank Stewart (Series Editor), Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Guest Editor), Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essays on Chinese Literature: A Comparative Approach by Wong Yoon Wah, Yoon-wah Wong it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Village 新村 by Wong Yoon Wah, Ho Lian Geok (Translator), Ng Yi-Sheng (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rhythms: A Singaporean millennial anthology of poetry by Kirpal Singh (Editor), Wong Yoon Wah (Editor), Hadijah Rahmat (Translator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ssu-K'ung T'u: A Poet-Critic of the T'ang 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1976	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	CONTEMPORARY ETHNIC OF CHINESE COMMUNITY IN INDONESIA (Studies in Southeast Asian Chinese) by Wong Yoon Wah, Jian Yu Liao 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Post-Colonial Chinese Literatures in Singapore and Malaysia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ssu-K'ung T'u a poet critic of the T'ang 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The stories surrounding eating durians remind us that literature should incorporate low culture, bringing it closer to lived reality. These legends come not from the pens of the elite, but are assembled from the words of the masses, both written and spoken, passed from one person to another—the only way to create a text this deep and compelling.”
― Wong Yoon Wah, Durians Are Not the Only Fruit

tags: durian, postcolonial-literature, postcolonialism, southeast-asia

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“Among Chinese Singaporeans and Malaysians, many hold the belief that when Admiral Cheng Ho landed in Nanyang, he relieved himself in the jungle, and the steaming puddle of shit and piss evolved into the durian tree. To put it less elegantly, the mounds of flesh inside the durian resemble a row of little turds, resting neatly in a boat-shaped husk.”
― Wong Yoon Wah, Durians Are Not the Only Fruit

tags: cheng-ho, durian, malaya, malaysia, nature, singapore

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