"Sauce of Life" is a family saga set in 1930s British Malaya, where Lai Pek, a middle-aged Chinese businessman, leads a prosperous life with his wife and five children. Pleased... Read More

This collection takes the building blocks of life—literally, a number of the chemical elements featured in the poems—and tries to make sense of them. For the most part, Tan... Read More

“We need a universal language … A universal language cannot be made by spreading one of the current languages … It can properly be established with only a new language,... Read More

Tan Kheng Yeang, who was born in former British Malaya and attended an English school there, is a poet of exuberance and diversity. His latest volume, following a free verse... Read More

In "Intrinsic to Universe", Tan Kheng Yeang addresses what he perceives as humanity’s common frustration with the near futility of organized society. Yeang begins by asserting... Read More

Most collections of quotations are compilations of a variety of notable people’s statements on diverse subjects. "Reduced Reflections" is entirely the work of Tan Kheng Yeang... Read More

The city of Hong Kong was established in 1841. At the time it was known primarily for its bustling trade and sense of international connection and freedom. Tan Kheng Yeang,... Read More

“This was the age of the clash of cultures.” "Conflict in the Home" illuminates turmoil in a household when Western ideas begin to flourish in the Far East. Siu Kam is hit... Read More