The transmission of Liaozhai Zhiyi in the Malay world

The first translation of Liaozhai Zhiyi appeared in Batavia in 1895. This translation contained about 28 stories on the supernatural including the \u27Lien Hsiang\u27 (Lian Xiang) that really originated from Liaozhai Zhiyi. Also included in\u27 this translation were stories from other Chinese classics. In fact, six years before that \u27Lien Hsiang\u27 was already translated into Baba Malay in Singapore. In 1915 another translation of Liaozhai Zhiyi appeared in jakarta but it was almost identical to the original version. Similarly there was also another translation of \u27Lien Hsiang\u27 in 1938. However, in 1965 Neo [o-len translated three stories that had not before been translated into Malay in a work entitled Sastera Tionghua Sa-pintas Lalu. The supernatural featured in most of the translationsit was seldom known that besides the supernatural about half of the 500 stories dealt with common everyday life