The_Poison_of_Polygamy
The Poison of Polygamy
1909–1910 novel in Literary Chinese by Wong Shee Ping
The Poison of Polygamy (Chinese: 多妻毒; pinyin: Duō Qī Dú) is a novel written in Literary Chinese and first published in serial form in the Chinese Times in Melbourne, Australia, between June 1909 and December 1910.[1] It was the first novel by a Chinese diaspora writer to be published in Australia,[2] and the first Chinese-language novel to be published in Australia and possibly in the West.[3] On first publication the author was identified by the alias Jiangxiaerlang.[2] Subsequent research has identified the writer as Wong Shee Ping, a newspaper editor, Christian preacher and republican revolutionary also known as Wong Yau Kung.[4]