" 'The Ghost Bride' directors tell us what it's like working with an all-Malaysian crew and why the Netflix series was shot in Mandarin". "The Concept of Afterlife: Transforming Mythology into Fantasy in Yangsze Choo's The Ghost Bride." Ostrava Journal of English Philology 11.1 (2019). "History and hantu are the ingredients behind Malaysian master storyteller, Yangsze Choo's recipe for literary success!". ^ Kamal, Intan Maizura Ahmad (7 November 1921).^ a b Miller, Stuart (7 February 2020)."Local author Yangsze Choo on the runaway success of her debut novel". ^ a b c d Gopinath, Anandhi (14 March 2019).Personal life Ĭhoo lives in California, with her husband and children, and keeps chickens. Patricia Schultheis, writing in the Washington Independent Review of Books, described The Night Tiger as a "darn good yarn" that is "free of political polemics and post-colonial self-righteousness". Critical theorist Anita Harris Satkunananthan, through her analysis of the work coined the term "Malaysian Chinese Domestic Gothic" to describe the text. The Ghost Bride was described by the New York Journal of Books as suitable for readers who want "to learn about cultural tradition or who have tired of either vampire or zombie genre". The Ghost Bride (William Morrow & Co., 2013).It was selected as one of 70 works in the Big Jubilee Read, a campaign to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. It is set in 1931 in Malaya, then part of the British Empire, and addresses the Malaysian myth of the weretiger.
Her second novel, The Night Tiger took four years to write. It starred Huang Pei-jia, Wu Kang-jen, Ludi Lin, and Kuang Tian. It later formed the basis of the Netflix-original series The Ghost Bride, which was co-directed by Malaysian directors Quek Shio-chuan and Ho Yu-hang.
It became a New York Times best-seller, and was selected as a Best Book by. It is a fantasy novel, based on the practice of ghost marriage and drawing on Chinese mythology to create its world.
Her first novel The Ghost Bride took three years to write. She began to write after leaving management consultancy to focus on her family, often writing at night. She attended Harvard University and subsequently worked as a management consultant. Her father was a diplomat and the family moved frequently, so she spent her formative years in Thailand, Germany, Japan and Singapore. Yangsze Choo is a Malaysian writer of Chinese descent, whose novel The Night Tiger was selected as one of 70 works in the Big Jubilee Read, a campaign to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.Ĭhoo was born in the Philippines, to a Malaysian family of Chinese descent.
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