"Homeland, Food and Memory: Field Notes Across Southeast Asia" New Book Sharing Session

Date: August 17 (Sunday)
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Grassroots Bookstore
Author: An Huanran (author of "Homeland, Food and Memory: Field Notes Across Nanyang" and professor of Chinese at New Era University College, Malaysia)
Host: Yan Hanlin
Registration: https://forms.gle/ejDVWVFEZvU8NfzS8

▍Content Introduction:
"Homeland, Food, and Memory: Field Notes Across Southeast Asia" focuses on local historical materials, culinary culture, and ethnic memory in Malaysian Chinese society. Through An Huanran's years of fieldwork, readers can observe traces of ethnic change, cultural integration, and the rupture of memory, while also considering the relationship between "cultural margins" and "mainstream narratives."

In this new book sharing, Mr. An Huanran will share his historical enlightenment, field experience and writing perspectives, and talk about how he understands the situation of Chinese people in a multicultural environment from his food memories and daily life details.

About the Author:

Onn Huann Jan

Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at New Era University College and Visiting Research Fellow at the National Institute for Cultural Development, Wuhan University. He holds a PhD in History from Xiamen University and a Master's degree from the Institute of History and Philology at National Cheng Kung University. He is the former Vice President of Southern University College. He was selected by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission (Taiwan) as the inaugural Global Outstanding Overseas Chinese Alumni (Academic Achievement) in 2021 and received the first Southern University College Teaching Excellence Award in 2013. He was a columnist for the "Marginal Commentary" section of Sin Chew Daily's "Speech Road" section. His works include Sejarah Pertukaran Budaya Antara Malaysia dengan China (2024, Malay translation), The History of Ancient Cultural Interactions between Malaysia and China (2024, English translation), "Ocean and Nanyang: The History and Culture of Hainanese" (2024), "The Rise of Small Countries: Malacca and the Tributary System of the Ming Dynasty" (2019), "Marginal Commentary: A Cultural Stroll" (2019), "Marginal Commentary: My Land and My People" (2019), "Cultural Johor Bahru: A Study of Chinese Social Culture" (2017), "Collection of Essays on the History of Ancient Cultural Exchanges between Malaysia and China" (2010), "Collection of Academic Papers on Locality and China" (2003), etc.