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Yangsze Choo () is a Malaysian writer of Chinese descent, whose novel The Night Tiger was selected as one of 70 works in the Big Jubilee Read, a campaign to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
Her first novel The Ghost Bride took three years to write. It is a fantasy novel, based on the practice of ghost marriage and drawing on Chinese mythology to create its world.Vinczeová, Barbora. "The Concept of Afterlife: Transforming Mythology into Fantasy in Yangsze Choo's The Ghost Bride." Ostrava Journal of English Philology 11.1 (2019). It became a New York Times best seller, and was selected as a Best Book by Oprah.com. It later formed the basis of the Netflix-original series The Ghost Bride, which was co-directed by Malaysian directors Quek Shio-chuan and Ho Yu-hang. It starred Huang Pei-jia, Wu Kang-ren, Ludi Lin, and Kuang Tian.
Her second novel, The Night Tiger took four years to write. It is set in 1931 in Malaya, then part of the British Empire, and addresses the Malaysian myth of the Werecat. It was selected as one of 70 works in the Big Jubilee Read, a campaign to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
Choo published another novel, The Fox Wife, in 2024. It is set in Manchuria in the early 1900s, and centers on a fox spirit hunting for justice. The book was longlisted in 2025 for the International Dublin Literary Award and became a finalist for the World Fantasy Award for best novel.
Patricia Schultheis, writing in the Washington Independent Review of Books, described The Night Tiger as a "darn good yarn" that is "free of political polemics and post-colonial self-righteousness".
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