Diasporic

<p>Traditional Chinese cuisine jade batik embroidery and horticulture.</p><p><br></p><p>In Soon Ai Ling's fiction newly translated into English by Yeo Wei Wei the lives of twentieth-century Chinese diaspora unravel in the midst of emblems and environments resplendent with cultural influences from East and Southeast Asia.</p><p><br></p><p>Life is strange painful and beautiful. In stories set across Singapore Hong Kong and Malaysia the characters in Diasporic struggle for freedom to love freedom from fate.</p><p><br></p><p>CONTENTS: Chef Tham Fans of the Phoenix Jade and Fate Clove Batik Melody Bai Xiangzu and Her Embroidered Peacocks Jade Butterflies The Song of Life Blossoms of the Moon Season</p><p><br></p><p>Soon Ai Ling is a native of Huiyang Guangdong. She holds a bachelor's degree in Chinese Language and Literature from Nanyang University Singapore (1971) and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong (1995). Soon is an award-winning author of several novels and anthologies. Her works have been translated into Japanese English and Malay. She was a lecturer at the Hong Kong Institute of Education (1997-2005) and the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (2006-2013). At present she is a guest lecturer at the Education University of Hong Kong and NTU Singapore.</p><p><br></p><p>Yeo Wei Wei is a writer and translator based in Singapore. Her short stories have been longlisted in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2021) and Glimmer Train (2013). She holds a MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) from the University of East Anglia.</p><p><br></p><p> </p>