Mau-sang Ng, an associate professor of Chinese at the University of California, Davis, who was known for his studies of Chinese fiction, died Aug. 19 in Palo Alto following a bone marrow transplant in treatment for leukemia. He was 45. A memorial service is planned for 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 24, at the Ashley and McMullen Mortuary at 4200 Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Professor Ng arrived at UC Davis in 1987 from Hong Kong to assist in the formation and development of the new Department of Chinese and Japanese. A graduate of Hong Kong University and Oxford University, he published numerous articles on Chinese fiction as well as the book "The Russian Hero in Modern Chinese Fiction." At the time of his death he was preparing a major work on popular literature in Shanghai. A popular teacher, he taught courses in Chinese fiction as well as in Chinese-Western literary relations and modern and classical Chinese language. In 1987, he received a Fairbank Center fellowship from Harvard University, and earlier this year he had served as an invited lecturer at Cambridge University. Survivors include his wife, Michelle Fan Ng, and son, Kevin Kaimen Ng, of Davis; his mother, Shu-yao Siu of Toronto; brothers Joseph Ng of Toronto and Raymond Ng of Chicago; and sisters Josephine Lam of New Jersey and Veronica Lai of Toronto.