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[ESSAY] “On the Banks of Bereavement: The Cultural Confluence of Vietnamese Grief, Memory, and Familial Hydro-history” by Tommy Vinh Bui Author espying seabirds on the Channel Islands Most people don’t look at a glass of water and feel the waterline…
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[ESSAY] “Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timothy Billings and Li Bai’s Farewell” by Will Buckingham
茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timothy Billings and Li Bai’s Farewell” by Will Buckingham Timothy Billings. Twenty-Nine Goodbyes: An Introduction to Chinese Poetry, Fordham University Press, 2025. Somewhere beyond the…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “The Limits of Universality in Mary Stephen’s Palimpsest” by NLL Mary Stephen (director), Palimpsest: The Story of a Name, 2025. 108 min. I live in the middle of nowhere…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Right to Remain: Akane Araki’s Murder at the End of the World” by Tyran Grillo Akane Araki (author), Jesse Kirkwood (translator). Murder at the End of the World. Pushkin Press, 2026.…
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[CONVERSATION] “Between Text and Textile: On Unravelling Threads” by Tiffany Troy and brenda Lin brenda Lin. Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance. The Ohio State University Press, 2026. 216 pgs. Tiffany Troy (Tiffany): You begin the essay collection with “Umbilical Cord 繫”, where…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Debts No Ledger Can Settle: Memory and Obligation in Diana Hongcha’s If You Don’t Go” by David M. Brown Diana Hongcha. If You Don’t Go, Amethyst Hill Publishing, 2025. 370…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [CONVERSATION + EXCERPT] “Banned in China, Born in Lockdown: On If You Don’t Go” by Diana Hongcha Diana Hongcha. If You Don’t Go, Amethyst Hill Publishing, 2025. 370 pgs. Read a…
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[FICTION] “Engagement” by Greg Solomon Greg Solomon on his story: One of the things I enjoy about Hong Kong is the diversity of people who live, work (and love) side by side. This is the social embodiment of yin and…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Rebuilding the Fishtrap: Translation, Biography and Female Poetics in Yu Xuanji” by Marsha McDonald Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon Hiding in Caverns. Yu Xuanji (author), Lucas Klein…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “More Is Less: Cinco in the World of Anthology Horror” by William Carlo Antonio Sanchez Cinco, 2010. 148 mins. ❀ Frasco Mortiz (director). Braso/Arm.❀ Enrico Santos (director). Paa/Feet.❀ Ato Bautista (director). Mata/Eyes.❀…
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