Flowing Tin City: Mobility Narrative and Localization Paradox in Liu Su Di
Scientific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, (2025), Vol.7, No.8, pp.325-329
Published: August 6, 2025
DOI: 10.54691/zq10t338
Abstract
In Liu Su Di ("Land of Floating Customs"), Li Zishu focuses on the daily life of Malaysian Chinese and describes the life genre painting of Malaysian Chinese. The novel uses a lot of mobility narratives of walking, riding and experience changing for depicting the people and things of Tin City. In addition to becoming a "built-in frame", mobility also reflects the stratum and power mobility outside the memory of Malaysian Chinese. In this memory space, the author needs to face the paradox of social mobility and localization of Malaysian Chinese, only by constructing identity belonging in mobility can the anxiety and difficulties of Malaysian Chinese creation and life be broken.
Keywords:
Malaysian Chinese literature; Li Zishu; Liu Su Di; mobility narrative.
APA Citation:
Li Feng (2025). Flowing Tin City: Mobility Narrative and Localization Paradox in Liu Su Di. Scientific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 7(8), 325-329. https://doi.org/10.54691/zq10t338
References
- Li Zishu. (August 31, 2023) Li Zishu's Liu Su Di is just "floating customs", that's how I want to write it [cultural class interview] The Paper.
- Jiang Chenghao. Memory Writing and Time Shape in Li Zishu's Novels [J]. Journal of Wenzhou University (Social Sciences Edition), 2023, 36 (02).
- Li Zishu. Liu Su Di [M]. Beijing: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House, 2021.
- Liu Ying. Mobility Studies: A New Direction in Spatial Literary Studies [J]. Social Sciences Digest, 2020, (08).
- BHABHA H K. The Location of Culture[M]. New York: Routledge, 1994.
- Mike Crang. Cultural Geography [M]. Translated by Yang Shuhua and Song Huimin, Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2005.
- Zygmunt Bauman. Liquid Modernity [M]. Translated by Ouyang Jinggen Shanghai: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2002.
- Huang Jinshu. The Middle Between the Local Theories of Two Places [M]. Huang Jinshu, burn. Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Co., 2007.
- Stuart Hall. Cultural Identity and Diaspora [M]. Luo Gang, Liu Xiangyu, Cultural Studies Reader, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2000.
- Wang Dewei. Alienated Nation, Misplaced Fable: Li Zishu's Wild Bodhisattva [J]. Contemporary Writers Review, 2013 (2).