Sunset Song: Selected Novels of the Malayan Communist Party

Soldiers die, singing the song of sunset; words and statues write the chapters of history.

Golden Branch | Hunger (preserved)
Liang Fang | Moonlight on the Zinc Roof | I am a Small Palm Tree (Xiao Hei) | Drizzling Rain (Yuchuan) | Letters from Afar (Zhang Guixing) | Group of Elephants (Excerpt)
Li Zishu | Ying Pei'an, the Mountain Plague | Riot (Excerpt)
Liang Jingfen | Earth Escape by Zeng Linglong | A Romantic Scene in a No Man's Land by Zhang Baiqun | Sunset Song by Ju Fan | Those Terrible Days by Li Yongping | Black Crow and the Sun by Chen Zhengxin | After the Loud Bang, the Flowing Army | Wind and Waves in the Forest (Excerpt)
Huang Jinshu | Raining Haifan | Wild Boar Zhang Jinzhong | Gecko Deng Guanjie | Paradise

Huang Jinshu:

Although novels are minor, they can also respond to history.

The Japanese colonial era is over, but the Malayan Communist Party's legacy lives on in the present. Not to mention the over a thousand retired Malayan Communist Party members who still exist, and the unknown number of "returnees" who were "repatriated to China" by the British colonial government. The hundreds of new villages scattered across Malaysia alone are a contemporary continuation of past history.

Zhang Jinzhong:

Going to Southeast Asia, Japanese invasion, British colonial rule, state of emergency, independence, the Malayan Communist Party and the Sarawak Communist Party, the May 13 Incident, the Reformasi... History has been archived and ended in the name of various events, but our interpretation of history and memory, and our imagination of our country and nation have not ended, nor can they end.

Different generations have different memories, imaginations, perspectives and interpretations, so that the narrative of family and country can continue from generation to generation. No matter how or where the novel is written, it can never avoid this historical jungle swamp.

Huang Jinshu (1967 - )

Born in Kluang, Johor, with ancestral home in Nan'an, Fujian, he moved to Taiwan in 1986. He received a PhD in Literature from National Tsing Hua University and has taught in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at National Chi Nan University since 1996. He has won several literary awards and is the author of the collection of essays "Reality and Poetry: The Desire of Malaysian Chinese Literature" and the collections of fiction "Slow Boats of the Republic of China" and "By the River Where the Elephant Died."

Zhang Jinzhong (1956 - ),

Born in Kuantan, Pahang, with ancestral home in Chao'an, Guangdong, he moved to Taiwan in 1981. He holds a PhD in Foreign Languages ​​and Literature from National Taiwan University. A retired professor of the Department of Foreign Languages ​​and Literature at National Sun Yat-sen University, he is currently a contracted researcher there. His works include the essay collection "Wild Geese on the Charles River: Essays on Malaysian Chinese Literature, Part Two," the novel collection "Gecko," and the poetry collection "Like the River, His Own Silence."

When We Write the Preface to Ma Gong / Huang Jinshu 5

Hunger (preserved) / Golden Branch 17
Moonlight on the Zinc Roof / Liang Fang19
I am a small palm tree / Hejin31
Drizzling Rain / Xiao Hei 47
Letters from Afar / Yuchuan71
Group Elephants (Excerpt) / Zhang Guixing 81
Mountain Plague / Li Zishu 101
Riot (Excerpt) / Ying Pei'an 121
Earth Escape / Leung Ching-fen 135
Love in a No-Man's Land / Zeng Linglong 163
Sunset Song / Zhang Baiqun181
Those Horrible Days / Jufan197
Black Crow and the Sun / Li Yongping 213
After the Loud Bang / Chen Zhengxin 229
Wind and Waves in the Forest (Excerpt) / Liujun237
Rain Falls / Huang Jinshu 255
Wild Boar / Haifan 279
Gecko / Zhang Jinzhong 295
Paradise / Deng Guanjie 303

Postscript after 1989 / Zhang Jinzhong 314
Novel Source 321
About the Author323
Bibliography of Malayan Communist Party Novels 326