Tiger Hunt

Zhang Yongxiu: The subject matter of my writing comes from real life; but what appears in the text is a distortion of life.

The book "Looking for Tigers" is divided into two volumes. Volume one contains seventeen extreme pieces/very short stories, and volume two contains twelve short stories.

Recommended by Huang Jinshu, Wang Xuequan and Lin Jianguo with special prefaces.

"Yongxiu's most extreme portrayal of strangeness and eccentricity to date is, of course, 'Mulan and Suxi.' It seems to touch upon all the "sensitive issues" in Malaysia: gender (homosexuality, transgender people), race (Malays, Chinese), religion (Muslims who are extremely anti-homosexual), and cross-dressing."
Huang Jinshu, "Simplicity and Strangeness: Preface to Zhang Yongxiu's Fiction Collection, "Searching for the Tiger"

"Yongxiu's 'Limits' is plain, yet interestingly, it also offers readers an emotional conclusion. For scholars of emotion theory, writing stories with elliptical figurations while capturing fleeting emotions is the most engaging form of writing."
——Wang Xuequan, "Turning Point in the Avant-garde: Zhang Yongxiu's Unconventional Writing Style"

"Although Zhang Yongxiu's novels vary in subject matter, slowly piecing together clues, we can all discern the clear face of the nation. Facing the crushing pressure of national mythology, Zhang Yongxiu uses his novels to show us how to find a path to survival through the sifting of narrative—how to achieve ethical reckoning through aesthetics."
──Lin Jianguo, "Once Upon a Time There Was a Three-Way Crossroads"

Zhang Yongxiu, also known by the pen names Yiqing, Ke Yun, Ying Haishen, and Zhang Xing, is a native of Malacca, with his ancestral home in Dapu, Guangdong.

He was the editor-in-chief of the "Xingyun" edition of Sin Chew Daily, the "Nanyang Literature and Art" and "Shangyu" editions of Nanyang Siang Pau, the literary magazine "Monsoon Belt", and Fenglin Wencong.

He has written "Lost" (essay collection, 1987), "Writing Poems for the Modern Times" (poetry collection, 1994), and "Searching for Tigers" (novel collection, 2023); and edited "The Growing Generation of Six" (1986), "Spicy Malaysian Chinese Literature - A Selection of Controversial Topics in Malaysian Chinese Literature in the 1990s" (2002), and "My Literary Path" (2005).

He has won the Malaysian Editors Association's Wong Kee Tat News Award for Supplement Editor eight times (in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2009, and 2012). In 1981, he won first place in the open poetry category of the National Youth Literary Creation Competition. In 2001, five of his poems won the "Top 100 Lyrics and Compositions" award from Taiwan's "iwant-music.com" website.

Simplicity and Strangeness: Preface to Zhang Yongxiu's Fiction Collection "Searching for Tigers" ◎ Preface 1 / Huang Jinshu 6

A Turning Point in the Avant-Garde: Zhang Yongxiu's Unconventional Writing Style◎Preface 2/Wang Xuequan11

Once upon a time there was a fork in the road ◎ Preface 3 / Lin Jianguo 19

Volume 1: Extreme Edition/Extreme Short Stories Ants Strikes Back 38
Sacred Tree 42
The Regret of Liang Zhu 44
Sleeping Prince 47
Shaolin Soccer 48
Wedding gift 50
Address 51
Cool and Hot 53
When will you come? 55
Princess Letter 56
Three unsigned letters58
The distance from the ear to the heart is 60
Lecture Tour 62
Gift 64
Writer's Dream 65
Article Truth 67
Snake 68

Volume 2: Short Stories: The Mist Behind 72
My Father and Mother 88
The Principal's Godson 104
Tiger Hunt 119
Mulan and Suxi 145
Those Days in the Newspaper Office 175
Looking for Sangtiantian 190
207 The Writers I Know
White Plum Vision 223
Dunki's City 239
Agarwood Past 260
Once upon a time there was a very long road 271
The portrayal and variation of human desires My editing days ◎ Postscript by Zhang Yongxiu 285
——Ke Yun's Micro-Fiction ◎ Appendix / Zhang Guangda 291