Table 1 Summary of Chinese Malayan children’s letters to “Yun Zi Zi’s Mailbox”.

From: Reception of Hong Kong’s Modern Children magazine (1946–1951) in Malaya through the lens of intercultural and transcultural communication

Name

Issue no.

Gender

Age

Malayan region

Topic of the letter

Du Shuiyuan 杜水源

No. 92 (June 1, 1947)

Male

15

Perak

Science, origin of the name of China (Du 1947b)

No. 132 (February 1, 1949)

17

Science (Du 1949)

Lin Qingxuan林慶諠

No. 98 (September 1, 1947)

Male

15

North Borneo

Seeking solutions to life hardship (Lin 1947)

Zhou Yurong周玉容

No. 117 (June 16, 1948)

Female

13

Perak

Science (Zhou 1948)

Zhou Nanxing周南興

No. 131 (January 16, 1949)

Male

16

Perak

Seeking solutions to his poor memory (Zhou 1949)

Ji Zhiyun季芝韵

No. 138 (May 1, 1949)

Unknown

Unknown

Perak

Science (Ji 1949)

Luo Bingyuan羅炳源

No. 138 (May 1, 1949)

Male

Unknown

Singapore

Science (Luo 1949)

Huang Fuchuan黃福傳

No. 147 (September 16, 1949)

Male

Unknown

North Borneo

Questions about Modern Children magazine, social inequality (Huang 1949)

Wu Ming吳明

No. 151 (November 16, 1949)

Female

Unknown

Nanyang

Science (Wu 1949)

Zhang Yingyong張英勇

No. 154 (January 1, 1950)

Male

Unknown

Singapore

Science (Zhang 1950)

  1. “Nanyang” is a general term referring to Southeast Asia (Cao 2014). The exact region is unknown.