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Tales from Nanyang: folk beliefs and women’s fate in Lee Yoke Kim’s fiction

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2023
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Hess, H., Fan, P. W., & Chia, J. L. (2023). Tales from Nanyang: folk beliefs and women’s fate in Lee Yoke Kim’s fiction. Forum for World Literature Studies, 15, 618–636. https://www.fwls.org/Download/Archives/1101.html

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The novel Yimeng Zhi Bei《遗梦之北》written by Lee Yoke Kim (Li Yijun), a Malaysian Chinese writer, was nominated as one of the top ten Chinese novels in 2012 by the Yazhou Zhoukan journal [Asia Weekly].Set in a small town in Malaysia, the story gives a lucid account of the living environment of the Chinese who immigrated to Nanyang, and keeps record of the folk beliefs and living practices among the people of that era. The novel follows the fate of several generations of women from the Ye family, describing their internal worlds, their sor

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  • Hess, Helen
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  • Fan, Pik Wah
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  • Chia, Jee Luen
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15

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4

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618

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636

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Lee Yoke Kim, Li Yijun, Yimeng Zhi Bei, Malaysian Chinese literature, Mahua literature, Chinese diaspora, folk beliefs, women’s fate

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English

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2023

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2024-12-13

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1949-8519

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Green

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Hess, H., Fan, P. W., & Chia, J. L. (2023). Tales from Nanyang: folk beliefs and women’s fate in Lee Yoke Kim’s fiction. Forum for World Literature Studies, 15, 618–636. https://www.fwls.org/Download/Archives/1101.html

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