This essay is part of Transpacific Literary Project’s monthly column.

This piece is part of “The Rainforest Speaks: Reimagining the Malayan Emergency,” featuring art by Sim Chi Yin.

This piece is part of “The Rainforest Speaks: Reimagining the Malayan Emergency,” featuring art by Sim Chi Yin. Editor’s note: This is an edited excerpt from a workshop about the Cold War and Chinese-Malayan cultural productions, held at the National Taiwan University in June 2022. During the workshop, Taiwan-based Malaysian filmmaker Lau Kek Huat discussed the […]

This essay and its translation are part of Transpacific Literary Project’s monthly column, with art by Mit Jai Inn. Translator’s Note “Once Upon a Time” is a love story written in the form of a fairy tale. While translating this essay, I was struck by how the narrator maintains a consistent distance between her and […]