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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Ghost in the Shellphone: TxT and the Rarity of Filipino Techno-horror”by William Carlo Antonio Sanchez Mike Tuviera (director). TxT, 2006, 114 min. For a country so chronically online and so…
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[ESSAY] “Intimacy and Distance: Reflections on Learning to Be Bicultural in Malaysia, 1966 to 1969” by Daniel Regan Fitting In I’m no smuggler. And yet I smuggled. It wasn’t much, just some cloth and foodstuffs tucked beneath clothing and in…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Metaphor of Trees: Stephanie Ellen Sy’s The Magnificent Banyan Tree and the Green Tong Lau” by Rebekah Chan Stephanie Ellen Sy (writer), Ishita Jain (illustrator). The Magnificent Banyan Tree…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Forms of Drift: Displacement and Its Antidotes in Mai-Linh Hong’s Continental Drift” by Kai Hang Cheang Click HERE to read all entrieson Continental Drift. Mai-Linh Hong. Continental Drift, Trio House…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Authority to Continue in Kiwi Chow’s Deadline” by Qinlei Wang Kiwi Chow (director). Deadline, 2025. 117 minutes. By the time a teacher proposes suspending the final examinations at Enshan…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Literature in the Age of Information: Anatoly Detwyler’s Seeing Through Abstraction” by Julie Xinzhu Chen Anatoly Detwyler. Seeing Through Abstraction: Literary Encounters with Information in Modern China, Columbia University Press,…
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Cha invites authors, editors, translators, publishers, and readers to propose books, films, or other cultural productions for extended featured coverage in the journal, including single-author features. Extended coverage like this often begins with the editor-in-chief’s own enthusiasm for the work.…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Dead Are Still Addressing Us: On Jeremy Fernando’s translating love“ by Tyran Grillo Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon translating love. Jeremy Fernando (author), with paintings by Sara…
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[REVIEW] “Listening to the Ghosts of Writing: On Jeremy Fernando’s 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒” by Anders Kølle
茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Listening to the Ghosts of Writing: On Jeremy Fernando’s translating love” by Anders Kølle Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon translating love. Jeremy Fernando (author), with paintings by…
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[INCIDENTAL] “The Ties That Bind Us: Listening to Catherine Cho on The Devoted and Hong Kong” by Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley Catherine Cho. The Devoted. Fourth Estate, 2026. 368 pp. Listening to Catherine Cho speak about The Devoted on 2 October 2026 at this year’s Lincoln…
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Header artwork by Annysa Ng We’re accepting submissions. Please readour important NOTES. 茶 Hong Kongclick for information 茶 First Impressionsclick for information 茶 Essays click for information 茶 Proposals click for information 茶 Poetry: En Routeclick for information 茶 Hong…
