Apart from the incoming southern scholars, there was another group of China's "southern-touring scholars" who had completed a batch of traveling and topography writings in the 1920s-1930s, recording the culture, customs and the exotic locales, along with geographical knowledge with historical values. Neither they were identified as writers, nor was their southern touring objective on literature. Their true intentions are on education, fundraising and etc purposes, whereas their travel notes were just byproducts. Bound with dialectical relationships with era and area while sufficed to be included in the pedigree of topography writings, these travel notes depicted a three-dimensional sense of place and also the local customs. However, these "southern-touring scholars" who had ever stayed in Singapore and Malaysia were not indexed in "Vision on History of Malaysian Chinese Literature" written by Fang Xiu. In addition, Xu Jie the May-fourth writer we are discussing about is also excluded from the history of literature. Xu as an incoming southern scholar had been so active in Malayan literary world and had converted his experiences in Malaya into invaluable prose works. This group of southern-touring (incoming) scholars made precious records of the early Southeast Asian societies and could be regarded as the prototype in Southeast Asian studies. Categorized in between document and literature, and even as historical data or prose sometimes, those masterpieces were the works done in the pioneering stage of Malaysian Chinese prose. EQuipped with "pre-historical" approaches, both incoming southern scholars and southern-touring scholars kicked off the prelude of history of Malaysian Chinese literature.