Transmission Pathways and Critical Practices of Ethical Literary Criticism in Malaysia: A Case Study of Florence Kuek’s An Ethical Literary Criticism of Han Suyin’s Autobiography: Braving Irrationality
Hongxia Zheng et al.
This study investigates how Ethical Literary Criticism—a Chinese-originated theoretical paradigm developed by Nie Zhenzhao—has been transmitted to, localized within, and advanced by the Malaysian scholarly community. Drawing on archival research, bibliometric surveying, and close reading, the article first reconstructs a multi-layered network of transmission pathways that includes returning Malaysian post-graduates from Chinese universities, the importation of foundational Ethical Literary Criti