Mei Shuzhen's Selected Works 03: Visiting the Garden

This book primarily compiles Mei Shuzhen's columns, originally published in Sin Chew Daily from 2013 to 2016. Divided into two volumes, "A Journey Through the Garden" and "A Journey Through the Study," both explore casual encounters with art in everyday life. The writing is heartfelt and moving, leaving a lingering aftertaste. From a poem, a song, a performance, an event... these evoke ripples of memories, feelings, and reflections; they explore the once-rich literary scene of Malaysian Chinese literature, and reminisce about past events and past friends.

The footprints left while walking between the study and the garden were recorded by Mei Shuzhen in words.

Mei Shuzhen

Born in Penang in 1949, his ancestral home is Taishan, Guangdong.
He graduated from the Department of Commerce of Tunku Abdul Rahman College in Kuala Lumpur in 1974 and worked as an accountant and company secretary.
In addition to writing poetry, he also writes novels, essays, miscellaneous articles and translations.
He has been writing continuously since 1966 and has published over three million words. From 2015 to 2022, he published a novel serialized in Guangming Daily. From 1983 to 1985, he served as editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Jiao Feng.
He has written the poetry collection "Mei Poetry" (1972), the prose collections "Human World" (1985) and "Past and Present" (2021), and co-translated with Mu Lingnu the poetry collection "Mekong River" (1973) by Malay poet Radif, and the collection "Selected Essays of Rhinoceros" (1976).

Backstage Prologue of the Years/Mei Shuzhen

A Visit to the Garden
• Poetry judgment
• Flower Funeral Sect
• Dreams of Spring
• Love Letters from Best Friends
• About time
• The Hawking of Music
• Pirated juvenile books
• Little Revelations
• The Story of the Two Rivers
• Even animals have feelings
• Dutch things
• Free Chicken
• Small checklist
• Cured Meat Star
• Love Palace Romance
• Vincent's American Pie
• Doomsday Air
• Dancing Nangli
• Dance of Eros
• Believe it or not
• Ruoshui
• A Phoenix Arrives
• Jimmy Laugh Day
• Emilys
• Remarkable background
• Green's doubts
• West Window
• Come to Chelaka
• Dewdrops on the grass
• Carpets and beggars
• Chicken ribs and portraits
• Seven-character quatrain
• Supporting Cantonese again
• Flagpole burning and other
• Lucy and Ma
• God-level creativity
• The icing on the cake
• Guests arrive
• The Other on the Other Side
• Hong Kong people love Hong Kong
• Pepper spray
• Vintage Hello
• Tianzhu Zhong Kui
• Old Friend New Light
• You Who Went to the Stars
• Growing up scared
• Valuable desolation
• Departure and return
• What we learn in geography class
• Geography
• Dutch Street descendants
• They all have the surname Zhou
• The Iron Age
• Old town renovation
• So close
• Plastic Surgery Kingdom
• Grafted wooden door
• Unsustainable
• Authoritarian
• Hymn: Red River
• Heart Knows
• Can't say
• Not obsessed
• The silent 90%
• Dissent
• Chicken Love Sound
• Heart Song
• Threats from the Internet
• Pearl
• Malay
• Malay national curse
• Fierce
• Lovey-dovey
• Another World
• Do whatever you want
• No rice
• Snacks
• Dean

Ji Eryou Study
• What are wild cats doing?
• Mount Tai or a Feather
• Light intellectuals
• Also accept it
• Like worry and worry
• The Poet's Tragedy
• Pray and be blessed
• Fulfilling prophecy
• Malala
• Traditional stargazing
• Travel through time and space
• Literary Dating
• My Golden Week
• I want to be a politician
• Friendship Association Anthology
• The Year of the Setting Sun and the Solitary Wild Goose
• Imitation of the Drunken Pavilion
• Pure in nature
• Gentleman among flowers
• Lonely Jade Face
• Jiangxi and Guangdong are both beautiful
• Vanilla Beauty
• Liu Chengyin
• Dongpo Yourou
• Two major sacrificial texts
• Missing you makes me old
• The Pain of Friendship
• Eat lettuce
• Tears wet my sleeves
• Big Pig and Little Pig Falling on a Jade Plate
• Articles are tiring
• Brocade Book in the Clouds
• Yi Naijian
• Water regulation
• old letters
• Fate
• Common
• pen pal
• Radif
• Sisters
• Dream of the Red Chamber series
• Red Flower Moon and Romantic Book
• Special cause and condition
• Dare to hold up the clouds with flowers and leaves - Preface to "A wisp of cloud rises from the green grass"
• His legacy has been recorded in history

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