Collection of Chinese Literary Works in Northern Wei

This collection of literary works is a compilation of all the literary works of Malaysian Chinese writer Wei Beihua in the 1950s. It includes all the works of the novel collection "Meteor", the essay collection "Spring Ploughing" and the collection of three genres "Walking Before Dawn", as well as several scattered chapters, restoring the complete literary picture of this predecessor for today's reading world.

Despite his talent, diligence, and considerable achievements, Wei Beihua has been almost completely forgotten by the literary and artistic circles of Singapore and Malaysia in the more than 50 years since his death. However, his works at the time, including essays, poems, and novels, rode the crest of the modernist movement, making him a true pioneer of the new generation of modernists.

The purpose of compiling and publishing this complete collection is to restore the complete literary picture of this writer. For the older generation of literary people, this may have the nostalgic meaning of retracing the literary steps of their youth. For many young and middle-aged literary people who are relatively unfamiliar with Wei Beihua, this book may have the meaning of literary archaeology.

Wei Beihua (Author)

He also used the pseudonyms Lu Baiye, Hua Xiding, Lou Wenmu, Yue Zigeng, Fan Tao, and Yao Yuan. He was born in Ipoh in 1923 and died of illness in Singapore in 1961. During the Japanese occupation, he wandered and fled around Medan, Sumatra. After the liberation, he participated in the Indonesian War of Independence and returned to Singapore to settle down in 1948.

Zhang Jingyun (Editor)

This book's editor, Zhang Jingyun, was born in 1940 in Danlao, Lower Burma. He grew up in Penang after the war and dropped out of school at the age of sixteen. Before retiring in 2007, he worked in journalism for a long time, serving as chief editor of three major newspapers. He described himself as purely motivated by his work, having no illusions about the objective state of the local newspaper industry at the time. However, in 2011, he unexpectedly received the Taiwan Master Hsing Yun (Malaysia) Journalism and Communication Award. He is the author of four books: "Yanquan Collection" (Zhang Chenyin, poetry collection, 1977), "Jiansu Xiaopin" (essays, 2001), "Clouds Without Heart, Water Flows East" (thought essays, 2001), and "Dog Ear Zero Notes" (essays, 2014).