Mei Shuzhen's Selected Works 02: Human World

This book, divided into six volumes, encompasses essays, novels, poetry, translations, book reviews, and historical histories. It compiles works by Mei Shuzhen from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, covering diverse periods and themes. The diverse range of subject matter explored in this book is as rich as the landscape of the human world, reflecting a cross-section of local literary styles across different eras within a given time and space. While many of these works, such as the novels, translations, and book reviews, are tailor-made for the monthly themes of the Malaysian literary magazine Banana Wind (for which Mei Shuzhen served as a guest editor for many years), they also reveal the author's passion for writing and her bold and arduous exploration of diverse literary genres.

Mei Shuzhen

Born in Penang in 1949, his ancestral home is Taishan, Guangdong.
He graduated from the Department of Commerce of Tunku Abdul Rahman College in Kuala Lumpur in 1974 and worked as an accountant and company secretary.
In addition to writing poetry, he also writes novels, essays, miscellaneous articles and translations.
He has been writing continuously since 1966 and has published over three million words. From 2015 to 2022, he published a novel serialized in Guangming Daily. From 1983 to 1985, he served as editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Jiao Feng.
He has written the poetry collection "Mei Poetry" (1972), the prose collection "Human World" (1985) and "Past and Present" (2021), and co-translated with Mu Lingnu the poetry collection "Mekong River" (1973) by Malay poet Radif, and the collection "Selected Essays of Rhinoceros" (1976).

Preface to Looking Back / Mei Shuzhen

A collection of human beings
• Several layers of green mountains
• Full Moonlight
• Ah Yang, oh, Ah Yang
• The Last Waltz
• A city dweller
• Ungrateful readers
• Little Woman – An Interview with Tang Tingting
• Black and White
• Two-Handed Muse
• The writer's vision - also on Bages
• Rediscussing the Writer's Vision
• Sighing at the Lingding Ocean
• Two books, one large and one small
• What to read and what to do
• Publishing Dilemma
• West Window
• Hidden in the city
• That face
• Don’t look for old grudges in poetry
• Shock
• Good and bad articles
• The End of an Era
• A Q&A for Murakami fans
• Ridiculous Amu
• Love is too short
• Searching for a friend in the old alleys of the ancient city

Collection of Two Poems
• Dust World
• Shimmering
• Wisteria
• Meditation
• gurgling springs
• Floods
• feather
• Cyan Fountain
• lamp
• Human affairs
• Lotus
• Sun-dried lime
• Brush calligraphy
• Traditional Chinese characters
• Simplified Chinese
• Writing poetry to fulfil one's duty
• Empty people
• New Year's Eve in Petaling Street
• one person
• Last Spring
• Proletariat
• Man in the Mirror
• Lukang Long Lane
• Peach Blossom Spring
• M's Farewell
• Oedipal Nightmare
• La Maîtresse
• Missed
• Ma Fantaisie
• Snow-covered plum blossoms
• Chinatown
• Night falls on MacRitchie
• Darkness always comes at night
• To My Love Bell
• North-South Journey – To My Love
• Family letters
• Causeway Bay Second Scenic Spot

Volume 3 Novels
• Illusion
• Dreams are one thing and bombs are another.
• Suitcase
• Dream 1
• Dream 2
• Mud
• dragon
• Elian
• Roses for babies
• A ten-year handshake
• Cold incense
• The Pillow Book
• The Pillow Book
• That person is at the end of the street
• Father's death
• Searching for a paradise
• Exile

Volume 4 Translations
• Ladif and the Mekong (a poem review) Θ Author: M. Balfas
• Masuri SN
• Masuri SN
• Good Taste Θ Masuri SN
• Humanity Today Θ Masuri SN
• Continued debate on Masuri SN
• Rebirth from Self-Destruction Θ Introduction: Hanley Burr, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Three poems by Hadi WM
• Three poems by WM ΘA.Hadi
• Quotations ΘA.Hadi WM Three poems
• Orphan Poet of Our Time ΘJoseph Brodsky
• Borges
• Encounter with Θ Borges
• On America in Maramure's Short Stories by Sheldon J. Hershinow

On the Collection of Five Books
• On the Collection of Novels on the Shepherd's Slave
• Human and Bird Fantasy
• Reading Songzhi Collection
• Reading "Under the Red Flag"
• Two Selected Works of Xiao Hong
• Large books, medium books, small books—all are the product of Ruixian’s discerning eye
• Eileen Chang and Malaya (Part 1)
• Eileen Chang and Malaya (novella)
• Eileen Chang and Malaya (Part 2)
• Dong Qiao uses words to describe meticulous paintings

Compilation of Six Histories
• Banana Wind
• Our publications
• Weekly and academic journals
• 14-hour workday
• Sparks from the Ashes
• 217th Road
• Dreams of longing
• I pass by the Jiaofeng Journal ruins every day

Three words in the postscript