This study investigated the memory of Lu Xun and the implications of this memory in the  arena  of   Mahua  literature  from  1945  to  1965.  This  study  invoked  theory  of Memory and defined the  discussion articles about Lu Xun and the Mahua rewrites of Lu Xun as the “memory of Lu Xun”. The  analysis of this memory and its implications was placed in the Malayan Chinese sociopolitical  context. The study revealed that the memory of Lu Xun was greatly influenced by the trend of China  left-wing ideology and the wave of anti-colonial in Malaya. As a conclusion, Lu Xun’s influence  could be seen in the reconstruction of Lu Xun’s image and the theme of Mahua rewrites of Lu Xun.  This study implicated the great influence of Lu Xun in the arena of Mahua literature based on more  primary data sourced from newspapers and magazines. Also, the analysis which placed in the Malayan  Chinese  sociopolitical context provided a clearer picture of Lu Xun’.....

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Liang Fang 梁放 was born in 1953 in Saratok, British Borneo. He is known as “the most important local representative of Sinophone Sarawak writer” and won the 14 th Sinophone Malaysian Literature Award. Lia ng 's most frequently anthologized work is the short story “Long Tuzhu 龙吐珠 which is similar to the famous short story “La z i Fu 拉子妇 ” by Li Yongping 李永平 as it is also about an unscrupulous Chinese man who ends up abandoning an indigenous wom a n. However, as pas t critics have pointed out, “Long Tuzhu”, written from the perspective of the victim, is more profound and has more tension compared with “Lazi Fu”. This article focuses on "Long Tuzhu", while also discussing Liang's other works, to analyse his ethnic thou gh t: How does Liang write or problematise ethnic? What kind of ethnic imagination and thinking does he provide? Sinophone/Xenophone Studies, which highlights ethnic and cultural alterity and changeability, can be used to analyses “L.....

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