The Cold War, Indigenization, and Modernity: A Collection of Essays on Banana Wind

★ A collection of research papers on Malaysia’s longest-running Chinese literary and artistic publication, “Banana Wind”!
★ A total of 12 wonderful research articles on "Banana Wind" are included!

Founded during the Cold War, Banana Wind, a local Malaysian publication, has been published for 67 years, making it Malaysia's longest-running and most influential literary journal. This collection of essays focuses on the study of Banana Wind, including twelve research papers. These papers explore the various issues reflected in Banana Wind through three key themes: "The Cold War and the National Imagination," "The Editor's Figure: From Realism to Modernity," and "Communication, Rebellion, and Transformation."

Postwar Malaysian Chinese literature, regardless of nationality, cannot ignore the geopolitics of the Cold War, nor can it avoid the cultural politics of the nation-state. Banana Wind is situated within this complex power dynamic, where Chinese literature from Malaysia, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong (and translated world literature) intersects. Through it, perhaps a unique perspective, distinct from leftist historiography, can be written about Malaysian Chinese literature.

Overall, the major themes surrounding "Banana Wind" can be summarized in a few key words: Malayanization (localization), modernity (modernism), literary autonomy, and popularization. Most importantly, Malayanization and modernism are crucial.

The articles included in this collection of essays each offer different perspectives, sometimes interweaving with common or similar topics.
——Huang Jinshu

Zhang Jinzhong

Professor of Foreign Languages ​​and Literature at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. His publications include Nanyang Discourse: Malaysian Chinese Literature and Cultural Attributes, Malaysian Chinese Literature, Time Is So Far Away: Essays on Malaysian Chinese Literature, and The Cry of Geese Along the Charles River: Essays on Malaysian Chinese Literature II.

Huang Jinshu

Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at National Chi Nan University in Taiwan. Author of collections of essays including "Malaysian Chinese Literature and Chineseness," "On Experimental Essays," "The Malaysian Case of Chinese Minor Literature," and "The Gift of Jet Lag." He has also written numerous novels and essays.

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Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia. His publications include the collections “From Island to Island: A Study of Yu Kuang-chung’s Influence on Malaysian Chinese Writers” and “Flowers Bloom into Towers: A Discussion of Malaysian Chinese Literature.”

ix Li Shuzhi's Preface
001 Huang Jinshu Introduction: The Cold War, Malayanization and Modernism

Volume 1: The Cold War and National Imagination
011 Wang Meixiang, Hong Kong Friendship Association and Malaysian Chinese Cultural Production: The Case of "Banana Wind" and "Student Weekly" (1955-1969)
047 Zhuang Huaxing's Post-War Malaysian Chinese (Republic of China) Literary Sites - Re-exploring Literary History
079 Lin Chunmei's "Banana Wind" and Malaya's National Imagination before Independence
097 Huang Guohua: Banana Style, Folk Songs, and Food Style: On the Reconstruction of the Material System and National Identity on the Eve of Malaya's Independence

The Figure of the Editor of Volume 2: From Realism to Modernity
137 He Shufang's "Banana Wind" and Fang Tian's Realistic Writing
191 The Fabrication and Construction of Lin Chunmei’s Life Story — Bai Yao Returns to Southeast Asia
217 Deng Guanjie: Popularization, Anti-communism, and Malayanization: Huang Ya and the Modernism of Banana Wind in the 1960s
259 Zhang Jinzhong imagines an avant-garde community: Tan Ruixian and the Malaysian Chinese Modern Literature Movement 2.0

Volume 3: Communication, Rebellion, and Variation
281 Who is rebelling against Huang Qiwang's rebellious literary movement? ——On the new realism of postwar Malaya and the "modernity" of "Banana Wind" before and after independence
315 Guo Xinwei: The Exchange of Modernist Thoughts between Taiwan and Malaysian Chinese: The First Wave of Modernism in Banana Wind
363 Li Shuzhi Raises the Banner of Modern Literature and Art: Banana Wind, Yu Guangzhong, and Malaysian Chinese Modernist Literature
385 The Variation and Limitations of Zhang Guangda’s Contemporary Poetry: A Study Focusing on the Poem “Banana Wind” in the New Century

Postscript: Research on "Banana Wind", American Aid and Historical Materials
425 Zhang Jinzhong in the Cold War Era: Research on "Banana Wind", American Aid and Historical Materials
433 Zhang Jinzhong's Postscript to the Malaysian Edition: A Few More Words

435 Paper Sources (Arranged by Publication Date)
437 Introductions to the authors of the papers (arranged in order of the papers)
441 Index