Nomura Girl: Essays on Life in a New Village in Malaysia

★ The third collection of essays by Liang Jinqun, a Malaysian Chinese writer based in Taiwan.
★ A touching story about a group of pioneers who fought hard and bravely in a new village in a remote area.
★ Essays on new village life with the flavor of "oral history".
★ The content is simple, rich and full of vitality, just like that era.
★ After thirty years of separation, we recolor that black and white era!
Liang Jinqun, a Malaysian Chinese writer living in Taiwan, has rewritten the pioneering experiences of her parents' generation in the south, their childhood memories, and the daily life of the Chinese new villages in Malaysia, turning these oral history fragments into fresh, rich, and vibrant texts.

After thirty years of separation, the author recolors that black and white era!

The "wild village" Liang Jinqun describes refers to Liman Kati, a Chinese new village in northeastern Perak, Malaysia. A product of Malaya's specific historical context, the new village embodies the collective memories of many Chinese people and remains a key theme in Malaysian Chinese literature.

The book has a total of more than 100,000 words and is divided into three volumes.

The first volume, "Legends of the Wild Village", records the deeds of the fathers' generation who went to Southeast Asia, and the stories of that generation of pioneers' struggle with nature, including the great migration of animals during the burning of forests, encountering tigers while cutting wild rubber in the mountains, and encountering giant pythons when building the Thailand-Malaysia Railway; it also describes the slaughtering of wild boars and pig-tailed macaques, cooking pangolins and geckos, stewing squirrels, pigeons or civets, and other lively "daily lives" in the new village.

The second volume, “Village People, Village Things” describes the various people in the new village, as well as some stories about rubber tapping, the author’s memories of primary school, ethnic relations between Chinese and Malays, how to use the toilet in the new village, folk beliefs in Datuk Gong, and grocery stores run by Indians.

Volume 3, "Nomura Childhood," writes about the author's original family, the stories of his parents, and his childhood farming work.

The profound lessons that nature taught her have made the Nomura girl what she is today: being able to work hard, knowing that you must pay before you can reap, and being humble.

Liang Jinqun

Born in Limingkadi New Village, Perak, Malaysia in 1970, she went to Taiwan for further studies in 1990 and married a Taiwanese woman in 1996.

Graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and the Institute of Academia Sinica at Feng Chia University. Previously worked at the Taichung County Port Art Center and Taichung Morning Star Publishing House. Currently a Chinese Language and Literature teacher at Taichung Private Yining High School.

He has won various awards for his short stories and essays.

She has written the novel collection "The Wandering Old Man" and the essay collections "The Education of Love in Progress: Teacher Ajin's Feelings in Teaching" and "The Tropical Woman's Journey".

011 Preface: From Nanyang Nomura to the Dream of a Writer in Taiwan during the Republic of China ⊙ Lin Weidi
020 Preface: Writing is a destiny
027 Origin of the Essay: Nomura's Living Beings

Nomura Legend

034 Time is a butcher knife
046 Burning
054 24 Monument Mysterious Ginger Garden
065 Monkeys and their descendants
079 Hound Captain
088 Fishing Notes
093 Big-tailed Rat
096 Wild Game
103 Big Cat Story
112 The Big Bug

Nomura People and Nomura Affairs

118 Liman Kati New Village
129 New Year
135 Basketball Game
139 Youth Association
142 A Few Things About Limin Primary School
154 Principal Yan
160 The legendary Tianmenggong Middle School
164 Walled Village
168 Bloody Case
176 Don't worry about the shit
183 Reservoir
188 Dato Gong
191 India Store
201 Reading Girl
207 Hanjuju
213 The Story of Uncle Nan

Nomura's Childhood

222 My Mother's Rubber Tapping Life
234 Kerosene lamps and calcium carbide lamps
240 Rainy Season
247 Taro Leaf He Tiantian
254 Childhood Labor History
263 Fighting Leopards and Tigers
268 Watching the Circus
274 Father in Detention Camp
289 Buang Port
293 Father's Specialty
296 Charity
302 Santa Claus

306 Postscript