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Once you've registered, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/E7rRM\n\nMalaysian-Taiwanese novelist Chang Kuei-hsing (b. 1956, publishes as Zhang Guixing) has spent\ndecades doing for tropical Asia what Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez did for Latin America: enchanting\na land with a violent history. Set in wartime Sarawak, *The Crossing of the Boars* (Ye zhu du he,\n2018, rev. 2024), released in English this year, dazzles with a wartime mystery enmeshed in an\necological fantasia: ghostly colonists mating like guppies, macaques mirroring Japanese war\ncriminals, bomber storks, ominous urinating porcupines, wildfire-igniting squirrels, monstrous\nquagmires, vengeful flying she-vampires, and herd upon herd of insatiable bearded pigs.\n\nChristopher Rea discusses how he and Julie M. Wang rendered this award-winning novel into\nEnglish, including the process of researching a historical epic whose architectonic sentences\nteem with flora and fauna found only in Borneo. In doing so, he offers answers to a more\ngeneral question: When faced with a challenging text, how can a translator get out alive?\n\nChristopher Rea is professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia.\nHis book-length translations from Chinese into English include *China\u2019s Chaplin: Comic Stories\nand Farces by Xu Zhuodai* (Cornell, open access), *The Book of Swindles and More Swindles from\nthe Late Ming* (both with Bruce Rusk, Columbia), *Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts by Qian Zhongshu*\n(Columbia), and Zhang Guixing\u2019s *The Crossing of the Boars: A Novel* (with Julie M. Wang,\nColumbia, 2026). 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If you would like to attend via Zoom, registration is required. Once you've registered, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: http:\/\/myumi.ch\/PbkD4\n\nThere is little that connects the Chinese Communist Party, British Conservative Party, Kenyan leadership, Silicon Valley right-wing, and elites in post-Soviet states. But they all exhibit an acute fascination with founding Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, invoking select strands of his political thought and practice to legitimate their own political projects or imaginaries. Yet, while interest in Lee outside of Singapore is consistently growing, within Singaporean society there is a growing sense of exhaustion and indifference in appealing to his figure \u2013 especially when it is perceived as a cynical means to derive political profit for his long-ruling People\u2019s Action Party (PAP). Using this observation as a launching pad, this lecture explores the contradictions of Lee\u2019s legacy and develops rudiments to pursue a global history of Lee Kuan Yew, bringing his international reception and footprints within a single frame. This entails treating Lee as a global figure of world-historical importance, situating his political thought, movements, and interventions within global trends and networks. While this global approach magnifies Lee\u2019s stature, it also amplifies the less comfortable aspects of his legacy: his \u201coriginal sin\u201d is no longer the detention without trial, but his role in legitimizing the bloody Vietnam War. A global history of Lee thereby presents intensified contradictions to grapple with.\n\nQuah Say Jye is a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. He is a political theorist of postcolonial modernity, with a focus on Southeast Asia. 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