...Carlos Rojas Abstract This article borrows Juno Salazar Parreñas's concept of the “semi-wild” as an entry point into an analysis of Malaysian Chinese author Zhang Guixing's novels Elephant Herd (1998) and Monkey Cup (2000). Set in Sarawak, both works feature a relatively simple plotline interwoven...

... of the total herd population died because the forage was impenetrably frozen. 8 Migration of farmers to the region accelerated in the eighteenth century when the Qing lifted Han migration limits to present-day Inner Mongolia to mitigate starvation. Although Mongol nomads in the southeast of the region...