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[EXCERPT] “Self-Made Effigies: The Life of Han Suyin” by Susie Gordon Click HERE to read Susie Gordon’s essay “On Biographsing Han Suyin”. … to be whole, I must fragment myself; like a tree multiplying its skyward gestures, I proliferate personae,…
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[ESSAY] “Self-Made Effigies: On Biographising Han Suyin” by Susie Gordon Click HERE to read an excerpt from Self-Made Effigies. To the biographer, choosing a memoirist as a subject is both a gift and a curse: a gift, in that her…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Back Then: Memory and the Cultural Revolution in Zhang Yueran’s Cocoon” by Seiya Tanase All things Jeremy Tiang in Cha. Zhang Yueran (author), Jeremy Tiang (translator). Cocoon, World Editions, 2026.…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Seeing Our Parents Otherwise: Hong Kong, Diaspora, and Family in Pik-Shuen Fung’s Ghost Forest” by Jeyan Chung Pik-Shuen Fung. Ghost Forest, One World, 2021. 272 pgs. For a long time,…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Banner Women in Verse: Wilt Idema’s Anthology of Manchu Women Poets” by Ronald Gray Wilt L. Idema (editor and translator). Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets: An Anthology, University of…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Madwoman in the Courtyard: Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern” by Bea Phi Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon Raise the Red Lantern. Zhang Yimou (director), Raise…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Doll and Void: On Noboru Tsujihara’s Mistress Koharu” by Tyran Grillo Noboru Tsujihara (author), Kalau Almony (translator). Mistress Koharu, Honford Star, 2025. 256 pgs. The greeting “I’m home” requires somebody…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [INCIDENTAL] “After the Credits Rolled: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and a Writer’s Awakening” by Larnchana Larkshitha Alahendra Ang Lee (director). Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000. 120 min. Few films can transport…
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Shinya Tamada’s I Am What I Am: The Solitary Sprint Towards Self-Love” by Nicola Ulaan Wan Shinya Tamada (director). I Am What I Am (Sobakasu), 2022. 104 min. In Asian societies, romantic love is still frequently presented as…
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[ESSAY] “From Fife to the Fragrant Harbour: On Learning to Love Hong Kong English” by Stewart McKay Me at the pier in Stanley, 2012, the year I first arrived in Hong Kong I speak English. And I have an accent.…
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