Release date: 26 Feb 2022
Welcome to Season Three of the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from Women of the South China Sea. Podcast host Jasmine Low is joined by Dr. Chuah Guat Eng, a Malaysian novelist and professional writer. Her experience spans three fields of writing; commercial and corporate, academic and literary. She read English Literature at University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. In 2008, she received a PhD from the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) for her thesis, ‘From Conflict to Insight – A Zen-based Reading Procedure for the Analysis of Fiction’. From January 2011 to March 2013, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at University Putra Malaysia, focusing on Malaysian novels in English. Most of her professional life was spent in the corporate world as writer and as a creative communication consultant. She specialised in the development of strategies for advertising and promotion campaigns, corporate brand building programs and the synergising of corporate business aims.
Guat Eng has two novels – Echoes of Silence published in 1994 in English, and translated recently into Italian and German. Her other novel, Days of Change came out in 2010. She also has three collections of short stories. They are Tales from the Baram River (2001), The Old House and Other Stories (2008), and Dream Stuff (2014). Some of her short stories have been translated into other languages, including Malay, Chinese, Slovene, and Spanish. She’s currently working on her third novel, and occasionally teaches subjects related to literature and creative writing at a local university.
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In this episode
Born in 1943 in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia, Guat Eng grew up in Port Klang, formerly known as Port Swettenham. This episodes delves into Guat Eng’s early childhood, her growing up years, her father who was a train station master, being Peranakan and English-educated, the Anglo-Siam Treaty, British Malaya, cancel culture, her time studying in Germany, her advertising career and more. This is a part of a five-part episodic series.
Chuah Guat Eng’s official website: https://chuahguateng.weebly.com/
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About the Listen by Heart Podcast
You have been listening to Jasmine Low’s Audio Journey experience, presenting Season Three of Listen by Heart: Voices of Women of the South China Sea with Dr. Chuah Guat Eng.
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Our purpose: Listen by Heart Podcast is an audio project that sets out to record and archive stories from women of the South China Sea, an area of much interest lately. As we document and record all of these stories, we will also be digitising and creating an online presence for women of Southeast Asian heritage and honouring the women who came before them.
Our Mission: Listen By Heart Podcast aims to serve as the Sentinels of the South China Sea, keeping our region at peace. Production Credits An open-source project created, narrated and produced by Jasmine H. Low (jasminelow.com).
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