{"title":"Singapore publications","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"倒叙","title":"flashback","description":"\u003cp\u003e Publication Date: 20170101\u003cbr\u003e Author: Lin Weidi Pages: 165\u003cbr\u003e Number of openings: Length 21cm × Width 13.800000000000001cm\u003cbr\u003e ISBN：9789811151316\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Grassroots Bookstore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ▍Content Introduction:\u003cbr\u003e ★ The latest poetry collection of Lin Weidi, winner of the \"Hua Zong Literary Award\"!\u003cbr\u003e ★ Recommended with a preface by Feng Chuihua, “the first true literary youth of the ninth generation in the Malaysian Chinese literary world”!\u003cbr\u003e ——\"After many years, he suddenly decided to publish (his young work) and hid a mystery in it, which is really intriguing.\"\u003cbr\u003e ★ Gong Wanhui’s design concept: Things we are too accustomed to have different meanings when reversed.\u003cbr\u003e ★ Exquisite printing, textured paper, an exquisite work that is the result of meticulous work!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"I have done everything I can for you \/ dedicated to \/ my younger self\" - Lin Weidi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is a collection of poems \"dedicated to youth\", a mixture of tender love, madness, promises, confusion and sadness of the poet's youth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Because we are looking back at that period of time, we must narrate it \"reversely\".\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eFeng Chuihua, a true literary youth, said, \"The publication of this collection of poems actually declares that 'the poet Lin Weidi is back.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The text is cleverly designed to be deciphered by the reader. Please try to find clues in the title and back cover copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e About the Author:\u003cbr\u003e His ancestral home is Huilai, Guangdong. He was born in Penang, Malaysia. He attended primary school in Taipei, secondary school in Malaysia, university in the UK, and now works in Singapore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I've published more books than I've had girlfriends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He currently works at Raffles Hospital in Singapore. He is also a director of Grassroots Book Room in Singapore, a director of General Publishing House in Malaysia, publisher of the Malaysian literary reading magazine \"Monsoon Belt\", and a director of Monsoon Belt Culture in Taiwan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"草根书室","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504962015448,"sku":"XA006","price":35.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6597\/3208\/files\/AYjWm7_bcb8484a-8406-4457-811f-ebd926ebe23c.jpg?v=1751094032"},{"product_id":"城事絮语-疫情时代改编自口述纪事的虚构故事","title":"City Whispers: Fictional Stories Adapted from Oral Chronicles in the Era of the Pandemic","description":"\u003cp\u003e Publication Date: 2023\/10\/01\u003cbr\u003e Number of Pages: 228\u003cbr\u003e Number of openings: length 21 × width 14.8\u003cbr\u003e ISBN：9789815099294\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Lingzi Media Pte Ltd\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ▍Content Introduction: \u003cbr\u003eThe short story collection \"City Whispers\" tells the stories of ordinary people living in Shanghai during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The author began conducting extensive interviews and recording in May 2020, collecting oral materials from a diverse group of people, including teachers, couriers, photographers, psychologists, mask vendors, and foreigners living in Shanghai. The work aims to present Chinese society in the midst of this crisis from diverse perspectives, thereby exploring the possibility of mutual understanding and empathy among humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e About the Author:\u003cbr\u003e Jiang Yichun\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A novelist, screenwriter, and director, he holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Manchester. His 2019 feature film, Intimacy, was selected for the Madrid International Film Festival and the following year's Asian Film Festival (Rome), where he was nominated for Best Newcomer. He has since focused on literary creation, with several of his novels published in British and American literary journals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"玲子传媒","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504963588312,"sku":null,"price":95.4,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6597\/3208\/files\/1_1024x1024_332abaf9-8f20-4861-a412-661587709583.webp?v=1751094006"},{"product_id":"永恒的山村","title":"Eternal Mountain Village","description":"\u003cp\u003e Publication Date: 2023 Number of Pages: 175\u003cbr\u003e Number of openings: length 21 × width 14.8\u003cbr\u003e ISBN：9789810990855\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Equatorial Wind\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ▍Content Introduction:\u003cbr\u003e This book follows the protagonist, Ling Tianxing, as he grows up. The author begins with a metaphor: a large banyan tree in a mountain village, which survived the Wanjishan fire and remained standing, only to be struck by lightning and deemed dangerous and felled. The village's simple demeanor and memories seem destined to vanish in the tides of history and development. Confused, Ling Tianxing finds hope in literature, but his participation in the workers' movement also draws him into the crosshairs of authorities. He later meets his student, Wang Xiaolei, and they eventually marry and run a literary magazine together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e About the Author:\u003cbr\u003e Fang Ran\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A novelist, screenwriter, and director, he holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Manchester. His 2019 feature film, Intimacy, was selected for the Madrid International Film Festival and the following year's Asian Film Festival (Rome), where he was nominated for Best Newcomer. He has since focused on literary creation, with several of his novels published in British and American literary journals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"赤道风","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504968339672,"sku":null,"price":78.6,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6597\/3208\/files\/73b777109009ff9cd0595e5a7134f717_530x_2x_66abd887-a303-490d-8e09-af4dd81bb469.webp?v=1751093936"},{"product_id":"狮城散记-新编注本","title":"Lion City Notes (Newly Edited and Annotated Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e Publication Date: 2019\/12\/01\u003cbr\u003e Author: Lu Baiye Pages: 322\u003cbr\u003e ISBN: 9789811409028\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Chou Sing Chu Foundation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ▍Content Introduction:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A luminary who passed away at the young age of 38, a literary gem that must remain unsung. Follow the vibrant pen of Singaporean and Malaysian writer Lu Baiye (1923-1961) as he reads 56 classic essays and embarks on a fascinating journey through Singapore's literary history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Lu Baiye's \"Lion City Notes\" was published by Singapore World Book Company in September 1953. After a 66-year hiatus, the Chou Sing Chu Foundation has decided to republish this classic of Singaporean Chinese literature with a new and annotated edition. To bring it closer to contemporary readers, the Foundation's editorial team has reorganized the volumes and added illustrations, written introductions to each volume, and compiled nearly 80,000 words of annotations. They also invited renowned Singaporean and Malaysian scholars and cultural figures—Professor Wang Runhua, Professor Guo Zhenyu, and Mr. Zhu Tianshou—to serve as advisors, enriching the content and creating a condensed collection of Singaporean historical records.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis book reorganizes the original book's 56 essays into six volumes (Historical Stories, Figures, Group Studies, History, Scenery, and Anecdotes). While the process of re-editing and annotating was tumultuous, it has provided indescribable enlightenment. Through Lu Baiye's pen, familiar surroundings and life seem to take on a new meaning. Even the smallest blade of grass, every brick and tile, every person and object, possesses a past and present life. Neither the blazing sun nor the torrential rain of Southeast Asia can erase the traces of time. 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The collection includes 11 essays written and published in newspapers and periodicals between 1973 and 2020, as well as a speech written for a symposium at the 2007 Hong Kong Book Fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This collection of essays takes its title from the German philosopher Nietzsche's autobiography, Ecce Homo. Ying Pei'an uses Nietzsche's perseverance in writing despite his illness and frailty in his later years to inspire himself, who is also facing illness, and to reflect on his own writing journey.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe majority of the essays in this book were written between the 1970s and 1990s and published in Nanyang Siang Pau and Lianhe Zaobao. They reveal the youthful Ying Pei'an's rich and nuanced emotions, his life ideals, and his deeply held beliefs and values. Aside from the 2007 speech, which has yet to be published locally, two of his more recent works, \"To a Friend I Haven't Spoken With for a Long Time\" and \"Silence Is Golden,\" have also remained unpublished. The former expresses Ying Pei'an's aspirations for freedom and democracy, while the latter reflects his reflections on the meaning of life. Both are worth reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e About the Author:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Ying Pei-an, winner of the 2003 Cultural Medallion, was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Nanyang Technological University in 2013 and was awarded the Southeast Asian Literary Prize in October of the same year. In 2018, he was selected as a pioneer writer in the Writers of the Year selection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e He has published 28 works. His novel A Man Like Me won the 1987\/88 Book Award, The Turmoil won the 2004 Singapore Literature Award, Two or Three Things About Myself won the 2008 Singapore Literature Award, The Studio won the 2012 Singapore Literature Award, The Costumes won the 2016 Singapore Literature Award, and The Colour of Dusk was selected as the 2019 Lianhe Zaobao Book of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWith the exception of The Colour of Dusk, all of Ying Pei-an's published novels are available in English translation. The Studio was published in Italian in October 2013 and was adapted into a stage play in 2017, opening the Singapore International Arts Festival that year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"城市书房","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504969715928,"sku":"M00691","price":55.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6597\/3208\/files\/YgjUE5.png?v=1751093908"},{"product_id":"石头-英培安诗集","title":"Stone: The Poems of Ying Pei'an","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author: Ying Pei'an\u003cbr\u003e ISBN：9789811453281\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: City Bookstore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ▍Content Introduction:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Local Cultural Award winner Ying Pei'an's latest poetry collection of 2020, \"Stone\", will be published in mid-June.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Stone\" contains 30 poems written by Ying Pei'an between 2005 and 2020. Most of the poems are very different from his earlier works in style, with pure and simple context and philosophical style, allowing readers to deeply understand the author's self-reflection on loneliness, freedom, justice, love, memory, time and even life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In his preface, Ying Pei'an wrote, \"I remain stubborn in my beliefs and ideals.\" His poem of the same name, \"Stone,\" uses the French philosopher Camus's Sisyphus as a metaphor:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"I pushed you from the foot of the mountain to the top with great difficulty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e I know you will again and again\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Go back to the foot of the mountain...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “…No one understands you and me\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e everlasting love\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Skin intimacy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNo one understands\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Sticking to you day and night to fight against this absurdity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e It is the meaning of our existence.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Time is unpredictable and changeable, but what remains unchanged is Ying Pei'an's rock-hard creative vitality and his views and persistence on poetry and poets from beginning to end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Cover designer A Gao used small stones to replace words and arranged them into a poetic picture, symbolizing that the idea of ​​poetry transcends language and echoes the author's unique poetic world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Ying Pei'an's latest poetry collection \"Stone\" is undoubtedly the most \"anti-epidemic\" work this year.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhen WC told me the new poetry collection was titled \"Stone,\" the word \"stubborn\" immediately came to mind. Ying's willpower is as strong as stone. During the twelve years of his illness and treatment, he wrote three novels: \"The Studio,\" \"The Costume,\" and \"The Color of Dusk.\" His obsession with poetry is similarly stone-like. The poem \"My Obsession with You,\" written in 2003, offers this metaphor: \"My obsession with you was shaped in ancient times. In the dark womb, in the embryo that began to hear its breath... I wandered everywhere as if in a foreign land, leaving, returning, returning, leaving. I stubbornly searched for you, stubbornly remembering your voice and face, as I remember my home...\" So, what does \"Stone,\" written in 2018, express? As the title of the collection, does this poem best capture Ying's existential state? I tried to search through the poem, striving to discern the author's intentions. I am a curious reader of Ying's writers, despite my limited ability to analyze poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e~Liu Su, \"Realizing the Ordinariness of Life is Impermanence: A Comparative Reading of Ying Pei'an's Poetry Collection \"Stone\" and His Novel \"The Color of Dusk\"\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e About the Author:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Ying Pei-an, winner of the 2003 Cultural Medallion, was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Nanyang Technological University in 2013 and was awarded the Southeast Asian Literary Prize in October of the same year. In 2018, he was selected as a pioneer writer in the Writers of the Year selection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e He has published 28 works. His novel A Man Like Me won the 1987\/88 Book Award, The Turmoil won the 2004 Singapore Literature Award, Two or Three Things About Myself won the 2008 Singapore Literature Award, The Studio won the 2012 Singapore Literature Award, The Costumes won the 2016 Singapore Literature Award, and The Colour of Dusk was selected as the 2019 Lianhe Zaobao Book of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e With the exception of The Colour of Dusk, all of Ying Pei-an's published novels are available in English translation. The Studio was published in Italian in October 2013 and was adapted into a stage play in 2017, opening the Singapore International Arts Festival that year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"城市书房","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504969748696,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6597\/3208\/files\/GXsjon.jpg?v=1751093907"},{"product_id":"祖母说","title":"Grandmother said","description":"\u003cp\u003e Publication Date: 20170101\u003cbr\u003e Author: Chen Yuyan Pages: 127\u003cbr\u003e Size: Length 19cm x Width 13cm\u003cbr\u003e ISBN：9789811151262\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Grassroots Bookstore\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e▍Content Introduction:\u003cbr\u003e Grandmother's Stories collects 60 poems written by poet Tan Yuyan in Singapore between 2013 and 2017. Taking hometown, family, separation, and life as entry points, the book engages in a dialogue with time and space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e They are the silent call of the black hole deep in the universe, the secret hidden in Brodsky's suitcase, the brilliant orange of the Gobi poplar trees in the autumn wind, and the ink painting of a flawed soul on its journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e About the Author:\u003cbr\u003e Chen Yuyan, originally from Fujian, immigrated to New York with her family at age 13 and currently lives in Singapore. She holds a BA in Economics and East Asian Studies from New York University, and an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In 2015, he won first prize in the Singapore Golden Pen Awards for Chinese poetry. He is the author of the English poetry collection \"Small Hours\" (published by NewYork Quarterly Books). His essays and poems have appeared in the supplements of World Journal and Lianhe Zaobao's Literary City. In 2015, he translated Wang Wenhua's works \"The Principal Cellist\" and \"Mr. Puffer's Violin\" (published by Ruoyi Culture).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Grandmother Says\" is her first collection of Chinese poems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"草根书室","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504969847000,"sku":"M00788","price":35.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6597\/3208\/files\/ujbQ8G.jpg?v=1751093906"},{"product_id":"达哥打","title":"Dakota","description":"\u003cp\u003e Publication Date: 2024\/4\/2\u003cbr\u003e ISBN: \u003cspan\u003e9789811892356\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: City Bookstore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ▍Content Introduction: \u003cbr\u003e\"I have always considered Dakota my hometown, as if this would highlight the haste of time. The residential community built by the Lin Youfu government was named after a crashed Douglas plane. The old buildings with red tiles and brick walls, the playground with pigeons and floral patterns, and the limestone ground with leaves blown by the breeze, are where my childhood was formed, sometimes lively and sometimes lonely. Dakota is now unrecognizable, half converted into luxury apartments, and the other half is almost razed to the ground. The memories and longings collected in this book, as well as the text and illustrations, are more indulgent and profound than nostalgia, like homesickness, but happy. At least I can still hide between the lines, follow the straight lines of the writing, and go back in time in the curves.\" - Huang Kaide\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Award-winning local author Wong Hoi-te self-published Dakota in 2018, which sold out in 2020 and went out of print. That same year, he was awarded the 2020 Singapore Literary Prize (Non-fiction). In April of this year, City Books simultaneously published the English translation of Dakota, titled \"Dakota,\" and a new edition of the book, adding six previously unpublished works.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis book, a nostalgic collection of 25 childhood essays and illustrations, offers a personal perspective, a reflection of collective memory, and a testament to Singapore's history and the transformation of its land. Born and raised in Dakota in the 1970s, the author, facing demolition and redevelopment in this historic community, wishes to capture the details of her life through writing, reflecting on the stories of place and time with a melancholic yet innocent eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e About the Author:\u003cbr\u003e Huang Kaide\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCurrently a part-time lecturer at NTU Singapore, he primarily teaches creative writing. 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Writing prose as a poet, her words inevitably contain many stunning, radiant, and piercing imagery and metaphors, sometimes resembling film montages, sometimes with the allure of abstract painting. — Chen Rongbin (Assistant Professor, Master of Translation Program, National Taiwan University)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Counting the years, I find countless similar half-ripe states in my life: alienation from the environment, the collision and surrender to the adult world, precocious yet slow-growing youth, the contemplation and disillusionment of love, the groping at the boundaries, the metabolism of responsibilities, the twists and turns of emotions, the battle and compromise of self-confidence, the cultural shock between my hometown and a foreign land... Because of writing, there is a barrier like an eggshell between me and the world; this barrier is thin and fragile, but it is remarkably tough when faced with the violent compression of external forces. - Sun Yifeng\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This book contains a total of 83 essays by Sun Yifeng.\u003cbr\u003e Her poetic brushstrokes and montage-style writing techniques weave together her personal experiences across regions and cultures.\u003cbr\u003e Between expressing oneself and narrating others, traveling back and forth between hometown and foreign land, \u003cbr\u003eIt is a snapshot of life, urban observation and taste nostalgia written by a delicate poetic heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e About the Author:\u003cbr\u003e Sun Yifeng, a native of Tainan, holds a Master's degree in English from Fu Jen Catholic University and a Master's degree in Chinese from the National University of Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e I like to sort out my thoughts through words, understand the fibers of words in life, and practice sketching the texture of the senses with the fibers of words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Since 2012, he has written a column titled \"Traveler's Eyes\" under the pen name Hao Chun in the supplement of Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao. 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