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Chia Joo Ming’s 1999 Chinese-language musings on squat toilets get new lease of life in multilingual translations
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Cultural Medallion recipient Chia Joo Ming tackles issues of tradition and modernisation in Squat For Tradition, Sit For Modernity.
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SINGAPORE – Originally published 24 years ago, a Chinese-language short story written by Cultural Medallion recipient Chia Joo Ming
Titled Squat For Tradition, Sit For Modernity, the story by the acclaimed author is more scattered meditation than tightly wound thriller, gradually building up to a tragicomic inconclusion in the wry style of Chinese writer Lu Xun.
