En Malaisie, plantations et constructions, un bon roman de Chuah Guat Eng.
Un roman « Echoes of Silence » (A) et sa suite « Days of Change » (B), sont une bonne vision des années coloniales d’après-guerre en Malaisie jusqu’à la fin du siècle. Chuah Guat Eng qui a écrit ce roman à cinquante ans, après une vie professionnelle dans le secteur du marketing et de la communication, a choisi une narratrice chinoise Lim Ai Lian puis son personnage préféré, Hafiz, un Malais.
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The results of the last elections in Taiwan were very surprising. When rereading some of the comments, it is clear that the fundamentals may have been forgotten in favour of personal preferences. The Taiwanese American writer Ed Lin, in a series of three detective novels, “A Taipei night market novel” (1), praises the charms of Taipei and reminds us of the essential features of Taiwanese history and society.
Yan Lianke is one of the most important contemporary novelists, for sure a potential candidate for the Nobel prize. 
Singapore is perhaps one of the best places to eat and where food is the main focus of residents’ concerns and conversations. The novelist Ovidia Yu has written great crime stories in which the kitchen played a leading role and Aunty Lee, the cook of a small restaurant, found solutions to criminal investigations. 
Su Tong is one of the best-known Chinese novelists in the West; nine books translated into French, a little less into English; only Mo Yan has been more translated. That is why we must congratulate the publication in English, a few weeks ago, of the short novel “Petulia’s Rouge Tin” (1). This superb text had already been translated into French in 1995 under the title “Visages Fardés“. (1).
Hai Zi, who committed suicide at age 25, remains one of the most celebrated poets in China especially with the younger generations. Some very creative years, 250 short poems, 400 pages of long poems, short stories, plays. His complete works were published in 1997 by his friend, the poet Xi Chuan.
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A good novel by Jia Pingwa has just been translated. A real event, “Happy Dreams” is one of his most recognized novels and tells us about the “happy” life of two garbage collectors during the year 2000 in the great metropolis of Xian.
