Press and New Media Gallery

Fusion View in the Press

The Star, one of the national newspapers in Malaysia, profiled Fusion View in their Bookshelf Section - click here for the full article.

Mslexia, the quarterly journal for women writers, has featured my podcast interview with Lucy Luck, the UK Literary Agent - see Mslexia Oct06.pdf. (You will need Adobe Acrobat to view the pdf file. Click “Back” on your toolbar to return to this page.)

Fusion View in New Media

“an incredibly rich and inspirational literary site that has gained recognition from fellow artists, writers and the literary web community in general” - 9rules Network

“A truly cross-cultural blog on writing and a whole lot more” - Imagined Community (http://imagined-community.com/blog/?p=29)

“Yang-May Ooi’s excellent East-West writing blog. Well worth a visit.” - Will Buckingham

My podcast on my “Two Voices” has also been picked up by a blogger in Perth, Australia who shares his experiences of speaking Australian English versus Malaysian English - see Ruminations

“If you are a Malaysian living overseas, you might feel at home at this site.” - Internet Newbie: the journey

Jon Yang, the author of The Rough Guide to Blogging has picked up on Fusion View on his own blog via The Star’s article about how I’ve been blogging to help my writing - see The Rough Guide to Blogging: The Blog

“The Flame Tree” and “Mindgame” in the Press:

“Yang-May Ooi has has a rare descriptive talent that brings the surroundings of her story… to vivid life” - New Straits Times, Malaysia

“Extremely readable and very entertaining legal thriller” - Marie-Claire, Malaysia

“Yang-May relays with vivid detail and sensitivity the impossible position of Asians who, to get ahead, must embrace a foreign culture whose interest in the East is based on greed and self-interest… a fast-paced, interesting read” - IS Magazine, Singapore

“… a polished thriller with a convincing portrait of a female protagonist” - Tatler, UK

“A highly-charged, highly-readable thriller. It’s also a fine portrait of a young Asian woman struggling to establish her identity in Western society… The Flame Tree is a gripping, intelligent debut from a writer with a future” - Sybil, UK

Fusion View/ Yang-May in academic journals

Fred Dervin, a Finnish professor in cross-cultural studies at the University of Turku in Finland has included my podcast Two Voices in a paper on Dissociation and Complex Interculturality - You can dowload* the pdf here and go to page 7.

Grace Chin of the University of Hong Kong has referred to my books in her paper on The Anxieties of Authorship in Malaysian and Singaporean Writings in English: Locating the English Language Writer and the Question of Freedom in the Postcolonial Era - you can download* her paper here

Tamara Wagner of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore gave a paper on my books at the 2005 at the international conference on the Chinese Diasporic and Exile Experience organised by the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Zurich - you can see an abstract of her paper here. Professor Wagner also delivered a paper on A Passion for Other Lovers: The Transformation of Occidentalist Stereotyping in Ooi Yang-May’s Fictionalisation of Malaysia a the international conference on Overcoming Passions: Race, Religion and the Coming Community in Malaysia organised by the Asia Research Institute, Singapore, 11-12 October 2004) - not currently available for download.

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