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Li Zishu's Hidden Transcripts of Post-1970s Malaysia: Literature and Religion in Land of Floating Customs.

The sinophone Malaysian writer Li Zishu's recent novel about class stylistics, popular religion, citizen subject, and ritual belonging in postcolonial Malaysia can be better understood if we translated its title's Chinese term liusu as floating customs, instead of vulgar and worldly, for example. Tr...

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Published in:Wasafiri Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 67 - 77
Main Author: Wong, Nicholas Y H
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2023
Subjects:
Li Zishu
Malaysia
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