Ng Kim Chew Explained

Ng Kim Chew
Native Name:	黃錦樹
Birth Date:	November 9, 1967
Birth Place:	Johor, Malaysia
Occupation:	Novelist, writer
Language:	Chinese
Nationality:	Malaysian
Citizenship:	Taiwanese
Module:	Child: yes T: 黃錦樹 S: 黄锦树 Poj: N̂g Kím-chhiū Tl: N̂g Kím-tshiū J: Wong4 Gam2 Syu6 P: Huáng Jǐnshù

Ng Kim Chew (; born 1967) is a Chinese-Malaysian author of short fiction and literary scholar who lives in Taiwan.

Life

Born in Johor, Malaysia,^[1] Ng migrated to Taiwan to attend National Taiwan University in 1989. After earning his doctorate from National Tsing Hua University, Ng became a professor of Chinese literature at National Chi Nan University.^[2]

Career

Despite residing and publishing in Taiwan, Ng's short fiction is largely set in Southeast Asia. His stories explore language and literary history, interethnic and religious politics, indigenous and diasporic nationalism, exile, migration, and hybridity.^[3] Ng's short fiction is typically highly ironic, satirical, and farcical.^[4]

Ng has published several short story collections.^[5] He has won numerous awards for his fiction, including the United Daily Literary Award and the China Times Literary Award.^[6] In 2021, Ng was awarded the Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature for his collection of short stories, Rain (雨).^[7]

Selected works

Works in Chinese

• Dreams, Pigs, and Dawn (Chinese: 夢與豬與黎明, 1994)
• Dark Nights (Chinese: 烏暗暝, Chinese: 后浪 | 上海文艺出版社, 1997)
• From Island to Island: Carved Spins (Chinese: 由島至島, 2001)
• Earth and Fire: The Land of the Malay People (Chinese: 土與火, 2005)
• Die in the South (Chinese: 死在南方, Chinese: 山东文艺出版社, 2007)
• Memorandums of the South Seas People's Republic (Chinese: 南洋人民共和國備忘錄, 2013)
• Carved Back (Chinese: 刻背, 2014)
• Still Seeing Fuyu (Chinese: 猶見扶餘, 2014)
• Fish (Chinese: 魚, 2015)
• Rain (Chinese: 雨, Chinese: 寶瓶文化, 2016)
• Slow Boat to China (Chinese: 民國的慢船, 2019)
• The River Where Elephants Died (Chinese: 大象死去的河邊, 2021)

Translated works

• Slow Boat to China and Other Stories (Columbia University Press, 2016), translated by Carlos Rojas
• Pluie (Philippe Picquier Publishing), 2020), translated by Pierre-Mong Lim^[8]

Further reading

• Carlos Rojas: Language, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Literary Taxonomy: Ng Kim Chew and Mahua Literature, published online by Cambridge University Press 23 October 2020

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ng Kim Chew (黃錦樹) (1967–) – Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. www.rem.routledge.com.
2. Web site: A flickering flame of the literary jungles – Mahua Writer-Professor Ng Kim Chew (黃錦樹) 國立暨南國際大學-英文形象網站. eng.ncnu.edu.tw.
3. Book: Slow Boat to China and Other Stories . 10.7312/ng--16812 . 10.7312/ng--16812 . 2016 . Ng . Kim Chew . Columbia University Press . 9780231540995 .
4. Web site: From Island to Island: Ng Kim Chew and the Language of Diaspora | US-China Institute. china.usc.edu.
5. Web site: Ng, Kim Chew 1967– [WorldCat Identities]].
6. Web site: Slow Boat to China and Other Stories. Ng Kim. Chew. March 11, 2016. Columbia University Press.
7. Web site: NG Kim Chew lauréat du Prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique 2021 . 2022-10-20 . Livres Hebdo . fr.
8. Web site: Kim Chew Ng (1967) | Livres Hebdo. www.livreshebdo.fr.