Your and my country disappeared

Take care of your own Chinese education
Novels about the Eight Character Generation
The new simplified Chinese version is now on sale

Special bonus collection: Yang Bangni's "Young Werther and Don Quixote: A Brief Reading of Lin Weidi", Guo Shiguangzhi's "Malaysian Chinese Literature: You and I Disappeared", Liao Hongqiang's "Why Youth Is So Bitter"

The book unfolds along two main lines. The first depicts the joys and sorrows of Lin Wei Di's elementary school years in Taiwan, his independent Chinese secondary school in Penang, Malaysia, and his university studies in the UK. The meticulous descriptions make it a fascinating pseudo-autobiography. The second plot follows an ambitious doctor who joins an independent Chinese secondary school as a teacher and board member, aiming to build a "kingdom" of independent Chinese secondary schools, with the goal of amassing wealth and becoming a tribal god. This bizarre and maddening story is brought to a climax by the author's magical realism.

How a nation or group can go from good intentions to corruption is something you and I should be concerned about. This book is for everyone who cares about Chinese education.

Lin Weidi

A Malaysian Chinese, he was born in Penang and graduated from Taipei Municipal Ren'ai Primary School, Bukit Mertajam Ngee Sin Independent High School, Malaysia, International Medical University of Malaysia, and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Manchester, UK.

He has won the Malaysia Huazong Literary Award for Essays and New Poetry, and the Malaysia Chinese Blog Festival Best Arts Blog Award.

He has written collections of essays including "Before the First Book," "Arrogant" (published by You Ren Publishing in Malaysia), "So" (published by Xiu Wei Publishing in Taiwan), and "Between Two Doctors" (co-authored with his mother Wu Meiyun, published by Dajiang Publishing in Malaysia).

He currently works at Raffles Hospital in Singapore and is also a director of Grassroots Book Studio Singapore.

The column "Real Doctor, Fake Hipster" is published every Wednesday in Malaysia's China Press.