[2] Chang's writings are unique, in the sense that they have "adopted a transgressive role to investigate and manipulate the structural limits of language and cultural supremacy of major literatures in the (re)shaping of identity, identification, and the politics of acculturation".
[3] His works tend to revolve around a wild environment, where he often uses the Borneo jungle and its civilizations as a main setting, which is exemplified in some of his novels such as My South Seas Sleeping Beauty (analyzed in a series of video lectures)[4] and Herd of Elephants.
[6] Herd of Elephants revolves around a protagonist Shi Shicai, who is on a mission to murder his uncle Yu Jiatong to avenge for the death of his elder brothers.
[6] Herd of Elephants is a novel of "how a region in the Global South itself (in this case, the Malaysian state of Sarawak) is impacted by metaphorically infectious agents linked to a powerful nation directly to North (namely, China)".
Chang Kuei-hsing's Elephant Herd is an example of his Sinophone literature, revealing a settler community history through war, colonialism, racial tension, national liberation, and communism into one.
[2] He goes on to depict the study of "settler-colonial" (Huang, 240) concept that is "economically privileged by politically disadvantaged minority who lives alongside a regionally prominent but legally embattled population".