Cheow Thia Chan is assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore.

Cheow Thia Chan’s rich and illuminating book explores how the multiple marginalizations of Malaysian Chinese literature have driven rather than delimited its inventiveness. Arguing compellingly against borders and territoriality, Chan shows how fiction consistently unrewarded on the global stage actually possesses the power to remap the contours of world literature.

• AcknowledgmentsA Note on Romanization, Characters, and TranslationIntroduction: Southern Crossings: The Covert Globality of Mahua Literature1. Doubly Local: Lin Cantian and the Contrapuntal Genesis of Mahua Novelistic Fiction2. Channeling Exemplarity: Han Suyin’s Bifocal Writing Practice in Malaya3. Cosmopolitan Visions of Drift: Wang Anyi and the Relay of Diasporic Literary Imagination4. Off-Center Articulations: Li Yongping’s Transregional Literary ProductionCoda: Always the Internal Other: Mahua Literature and the Recognition of AlterityNotesBibliographyIndex

Cheow Thia Chan is assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore.

Cheow Thia Chan’s rich and illuminating book explores how the multiple marginalizations of Malaysian Chinese literature have driven rather than delimited its inventiveness. Arguing compellingly against borders and territoriality, Chan shows how fiction consistently unrewarded on the global stage actually possesses the power to remap the contours of world literature.

• AcknowledgmentsA Note on Romanization, Characters, and TranslationIntroduction: Southern Crossings: The Covert Globality of Mahua Literature1. Doubly Local: Lin Cantian and the Contrapuntal Genesis of Mahua Novelistic Fiction2. Channeling Exemplarity: Han Suyin’s Bifocal Writing Practice in Malaya3. Cosmopolitan Visions of Drift: Wang Anyi and the Relay of Diasporic Literary Imagination4. Off-Center Articulations: Li Yongping’s Transregional Literary ProductionCoda: Always the Internal Other: Mahua Literature and the Recognition of AlterityNotesBibliographyIndex

Cheow Thia Chan is assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore.

Cheow Thia Chan’s rich and illuminating book explores how the multiple marginalizations of Malaysian Chinese literature have driven rather than delimited its inventiveness. Arguing compellingly against borders and territoriality, Chan shows how fiction consistently unrewarded on the global stage actually possesses the power to remap the contours of world literature.

• AcknowledgmentsA Note on Romanization, Characters, and TranslationIntroduction: Southern Crossings: The Covert Globality of Mahua Literature1. Doubly Local: Lin Cantian and the Contrapuntal Genesis of Mahua Novelistic Fiction2. Channeling Exemplarity: Han Suyin’s Bifocal Writing Practice in Malaya3. Cosmopolitan Visions of Drift: Wang Anyi and the Relay of Diasporic Literary Imagination4. Off-Center Articulations: Li Yongping’s Transregional Literary ProductionCoda: Always the Internal Other: Mahua Literature and the Recognition of AlterityNotesBibliographyIndex