Han Suyin: The little voice of decolonizing Asia

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Editorial note

Han Suyin’s novel of the Malayan Emergency, discussed in several of the articles in this Special Issue, has appeared with variant titles. The original publication … and the Rain my Drink was first published in London by Jonathan Cape in 1956. The novel was republished, with title capitalizations and without the initial ellipsis, as And the Rain My Drink in Singapore by Monsoon Books in 2010. Both editions have been used by the contributors to this volume and the editors have retained the variant titles to indicate which edition is being discussed.

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Notes on contributors

Feng Cui

Feng Cui is senior lecturer in the Chinese Department at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and is coordinator of the Han Suyin Scholarship Fund (in Translation Studies) at NTU. His research focuses on the history of translation in China, translation theories, 20th-century Chinese literature, and comparative literature. He has published nearly 20 book chapters and 20 articles in journals such as Chinese Modern Literature, Comparative Literature in China, Chinese Translator, Shanghai Journal of Translators, and Babel. His book Translation, Literature, and Politics: Using World Literature as an Example (1953–1966) was published in 2019.

Alex Tickell

Alex Tickell is senior lecturer in English at the Open University (OU), UK, and director of the OU’s Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group. He specializes in the anglophone literary histories of South Asia and Southeast Asia and conjunctions of literature and politics. He researches contemporary South Asian fiction and has published a guide to Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (2007) and Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature: 1830–1947 (2013). He recently edited South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations (2016) and The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 10: The Novel in South and South East Asia since 1945 (2019) and is preparing a monograph on fictions of infrastructure and citizenship in “New India”.