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This study uses Nanyang cases mentioned in Sinophone Literature to analyze two generations of Malayan-Communist writings around the mid-twentieth century: Hunger written by Jin Zhi Mang and Memorandum of People’s Republic of the South Seas by Ng Kim Chew. This research explores Malaya affected by international communism and Malaysia around 1950s, which serve as the temporal and spatial scope of this study. It investigates the aspects of “reproduction” and “reconstruction” in Malayan-Communist historical writings by the two writers from the perspective of Sinophone Literature, and analyzes the content, purposes, and meanings of the writings. This study focuses on three major approaches. This paper comprises four chapters. Chapter Two and Three are major chapters, which focus on the comparison of authorship and similar issues of how both write the Malayan-Communists. The first major topic focuses on the processes of formation of writers’ self-identities and their presentation of the Malayan-Communist writings, such as exploring how the two writers immigrated and created their works, and how their psychological statuses and changed regarding their self-identities, and what significance their writings of Malayan-Communism are. The second major topic focuses on collective memory and gender role that played in the Malayan-Communist guerrilla war period. This part examines Malayan-Communist members’ experiences of violence and explains why young people joined Malayan-Communist revolutionary teams and what their ideals they had toward their home country. Particularly, it explores gender relationship in both male writers’ writings about women’s stands and psychological statuses during the colonial and war period. The third major topic focuses on Nanyang cultural context and Sinophone aesthetics and explores the writing styles of the two writers and how they presented Nanyang dialects and cultures. In the final chapter, the research results are summarized and topics in the two writings are compared.
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