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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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[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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