In the book Sinicity and the Literature of Ethnic-Chinese Malaysians, Ng Kim Chew points out that there is no other overseas group whose literature compares to that of the ethnic-Chinese Malaysians (ECM) in either quantity or quality.
黃錦樹在《馬華文學與中國性》一書中提到，在文學創作的表現上，不論是質還是量，其他地區的華裔留學生都望塵莫及。