Malaysia in foreign literature
From as early as the 3rd century CE, and especially under British rule, the land that is now called Malaysia attracted considerable interest among explorers, literary travellers, colonial administrators, anthropologists and botanists, some of whom came, saw and wrote. As a result, there now exists a large corpus of writings comprising novels, short stories, reports, memoirs, autobiographies, travellers' tales, historical accounts, anthropological and botanical descriptions. These works present a vivid record from the perspective of the outsider.
- Information in the full article includes
- Writings under Portuguese and Dutch
- Travel writing under the British
- Works of colonial administrators
- Works by fiction writers
- Post-Independence writing
