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202:. His mode of writing creates binary relationship between human beings and animals but not to only discuss "national and ethnic issues" or environmental issues but to reveal a "deep-rooted animality in human nature". An example of Chang's critique of "human exploitation of the natural world" is drawn in "repetitive scenes where humans destroy the rainforest vegetation and hunt local wildlife". The usage of animals in Chang's literary works is to "manifest an ecological world in which both humans and animals are members of the same dynamic ecological system, interactively participating in the material energy cycle" and to form a never ending cycle where both species need each other to live. 174:
rewriting in Sinophone literature”, and “literary tropes to depict interethnic relations and Chinese settler history”. Chang Kuei-hsing's Elephant Herd is an example of his Sinophone literature, revealing a settler community history through war, colonialism, racial tension, national liberation, and communism into one. In Chang's work he "offers tales of violence, bigotry, incest, and destruction and his narratives are products of a different kind of settler-colonial historiography".
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The majority of Chang's novel highlights the political geography of Sinophone Malaysians that "continue to occupy an ambiguous position as the country's non-native majority and as an ethnic minority marginalized by national policies favouring the majority Malay". He goes on to depict the study of
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revolves around a protagonist Shi Shicai, who is on a mission to murder his uncle Yu Jiatong to avenge for the death of his elder brothers. The backdrop of the story reflects the "struggle between the Communist insurgency and government forces that are a threat to the newly independent Southeast
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Chang's writings are unique, in the sense that they have "adopted a transgressive role to investigate and manipulate the structural limits of language and cultural supremacy of major literatures in the (re)shaping of identity, identification, and the politics of acculturation". His works tend to
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to extend beyond its empirical category and examine the implications of globalization through minor literatures. Many scholars have examined Chang Kuei-hsing's work in their research in Sinophone literature as “a manifestation of linguistic and narrative heteroglossia”, mediation for history
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Asian nation states of Malaysia and Indonesia" (Rojas, 113); however, Chang overlaps two sets of the southern movement (one being the Chinese presence and the other the indigenous presence) to complete a complex novel with a twist to the end plot.
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is a novel of "how a region in the Global South itself (in this case, the Malaysian state of Sarawak) is impacted by metaphorically infectious agents linked to a powerful nation directly to North (namely, China)".
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to spread cultural and historical knowledge on the topics of Sinophone Malaysian literature. The "main diegesis begins in late 1973, at a crucial turning point in Sarawak's multi-decade Communist insurgency".
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has won the 2019 Taiwan Literature Award, where Keui-hsing received US$ 32,000 in prize money. The novel also won the 8th Dream of the Red Chamber Ward as "The World’s Distinguished Novel in Chinese today".
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Throughout 1980s-1990s Chang has influenced the literary culture in Taiwan and won many literary awards. Chang has won literary awards in Taiwan, Malaysia, and Hong Kong, including three prizes for
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writing examines "parsing hierarchies of power relations often defined by neo-colonialism, imperialism, and nationalism". Chang Kuei-hsing's Sinophone literature is acknowledged to allow the
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revolve around a wild environment, where he often uses the Borneo jungle and its civilizations as a main setting, which is exemplified in some of his novels such as
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In his childhood, Chang has accounted his experiences living alongside the Sarawak rainforests and travelling deep into the jungles alongside his Indigenous
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Rojas, Carlos (December 4, 2021). "Contagion and Dissemination: An Immunological Reading of Chang Kuei-hsing's Elephant Herd".
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Christopher Rea, "The Modern Chinese Novel online course: Chang Kuei-hsing 張貴興 and Malaysian-Chinese 馬華 literature" (2022),
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family, he " up in a state of Sarawak amidst a racially mixed Chinese and native communities".
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Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World
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Translated by Valerie Jaffee. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
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is a literary technique used by Chang in many of his novels such as
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My South Sea's Sleeping Beauty: A Tale of Memory and Longing.
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Literary critics often classify him as a representative of
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Index

Chinese
pinyin
Pe̍h-ōe-jī
Hakka Chinese
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
North Borneo
Sarawak
Hakka
Dayak
Taiwan
National Taiwan Normal University
Malaysian-Chinese
Sinophone
magical realism
metanarrative
Sinophone
Global South
Anthropomorphism
Hakka Chinese
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
Hakka Chinese
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
Hakka Chinese
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
Hakka Chinese
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
Hakka Chinese
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
Hakka Chinese
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ

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