Autor: Kim Chew Ng

Ng Kim Chew was born in Johor, West Malaysia, and lives in Taiwan, where he is a professor of Chinese literature at National Chi Nan University. His short story collections include Dreams, Pigs, and Dawn; Dark Nights; From Island to Island: Carved Spins; Earth and Fire: The Land of the Malay People; and Memorandums of the South Seas People“s Republic. He has won numerous awards for his fiction, including the United Daily Literary Award and the China Times Literary Award.Carlos Rojas is associate professor of Chinese cultural studies, women“s studies, and arts of the moving image at Duke University. He is the translator of Yan Lianke“s Lenin“s Kisses and The Four Books, which won the Franz Kafka Prize, and, with Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, has translated Yu Hua“s two-volume novel, Brothers, which was short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize.