Gain London Does Not Belong To Me Illustrated By Lee Kok Liang Rendered As Print

Does Not Belong To Me was written by Lee during his return to Malaya from England by sea inand was only published posthumously in.
It was partly based on his experience as a student in London, The novel has a nameless Chinese protagonist whose love for an Australian woman is unfulfilled, This novel resonates a postcolonial themes and inclinations which echoed in subsequent international anglophone literature, Lee Kok Liangwas a man of diverse accomplishments in literature, law and politics, Born at Alor Star, Kedah in, the son of a fourth generation Straits Chinese father and a mother whose culture was a mixture of Siamese, Chinese and Malay influences, his paternal grandfather was Chinese Secretary

of the Kedah Sultunate, and his maternal grandfather a Chinese Kapitan to the Malay Sultan of Kedah.
Lees discrete cultural heritage and schooling in Malayas Chinese, Japanese, English and Malay education systems in thes ands, together with his university education in Australia and England, provide the foundation for the poly ethnic settings and themes of his prose fiction and his angst ridden narratives of displacement Lee Kok Liangwas a man of diverse accomplishments in literature, law and politics.
Born at Alor Star, Kedah in, the son of a fourth generation Straits Chinese father and a mother whose culture was a mixture of Siamese, Chinese and Malay influences, his paternal grandfather was Chinese Secretary of the Kedah Sultunate, and his maternal grandfather a Chinese Kapitan to the Malay Sultan of Kedah.
Lee's discrete cultural heritage and schooling in Malaya's Chinese, Japanese, English and Malay education systems in thes ands, together with his university education in Australia and England, provide the foundation for the poly ethnic settings and themes of his prose fiction and his angst ridden narratives of displacement and alienation.
A solicitor who often represented oppressed minorities and the underprivileged in Penang society, and a one time Labour Member of the Tanjung State Assembly, his writing closely mirrors his cross racial experiences at home and abroad while showing a deep fascination with, and abhorrence of, cultural elitism and human suffering.
Lee's artistic and professional careers parallel Malaysia's own traumatic transition from British colony to emergent nation, Along with other noted Malaysian English language writers, including K, S. Maniam, Lloyd Fernando, and expatriate writers such as Shirley Lim, his writing redresses previous rigid Eurocentric notions of power to create protean senses of individual, cultural and national identities.
Extracted from "Submerging Pasts: Lee Kok Liang's London Does Not Belong To Me" by Bernard Wilson, Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London, VolumeNumber, March.
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