{"product_id":"diasporic-short-stories-by-soon-ai-ling-9781913891381","title":"Diasporic: Short Stories by Soon Ai Ling","description":"\u003cp\u003eTraditional Chinese cuisine, jade, batik, embroidery, and horticulture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS: 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYeo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Balestier Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50394131464466,"sku":"9781913891381","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_32c6cbc9-2eae-4746-a052-79bd38fa2ee4.jpg?v=1728998012","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/diasporic-short-stories-by-soon-ai-ling-9781913891381","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}