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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “A Tale of Two Suzhou Rivers” by Bea Phi Lou Ye (director). Suzhou River, 2000. 79 min. Recently curated by Kogonada for the Metrograph in Manhattan, Lou Ye’s 2000 film…
![[ESSAY] “A Tale of Two Suzhou Rivers” by Bea Phi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Suzhou-he.png)
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[INCIDENTAL] “The Hong Kong Signs Series” by Alex Przybyla Hate not life buoys and other small beginnings (Hong Kong Signs 一) THE LIFE BUOY IS TO BE USED FORRESCUE PURPOSES ONLY. DAMAGEOR THEFT OF THE LIFE BUOY WILLRESULT IN PROSECUTION……
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[INCIDENTAL] “Crafting the Hong Kong Signs Series” by Alex Przybyla Editor’s note: Click HERE to read/view Alex Przybyla’s “Hong Kong Signs Series”. To walk through Hong Kong is to walk through a world of signs. Directions, advertisements, warnings, reminders: Hong…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Love Yourself: Repetition and Return in Hong Sang-soo’s The Day She Returns” by Oliver Farry Hong Sang-soo (director). The Day She Returns, 2026. 84 min. The cinema of Hong…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Love Yourself: Repetition and Return in Hong Sang-soo’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑦 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑠” by Oliver Farry](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/The-Day-She-Returns.png)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Sa Re Ga Māyā: The Speculative Life of Breath in Anaar Desai-Stephens’s Voicing Aspiration” by Tyran Grillo Anaar Desai-Stephens. Voicing Aspiration: Bollywood Songs and Dreamwork in Contemporary India. Wesleyan University…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Hong Kong, Literature, Culture, History” by Jean-Claude Trutt, translated by Cyril Camus I must admit, however, that I never particularly liked the city. Editor’s note: An earlier version of this…
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[LITERARY ESSAY] “Navigating Endless Seas: Hong Kong” by Matt Reeck DREAMING THAT, while still alive, they’d been translated to the Islands of the Blest where time had happily stopped, as on an antique clock. The city is this island. 1…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Guest Who Could Be a Better Son: Merit, Substitution and Family Belonging in Lin Jianjie’s Brief History of a Family” by Qinlei Wang Lin Jianjie (director). Brief History of…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Moon Still Represents My Heart: Revisiting Tián Mì Mì at Thirty” by Bea Phi Peter Ho-sun Chan (director). Comrades: Almost a Love Story (甜蜜蜜; Tián Mì Mì), 1996. 118…
![[ESSAY] “The Moon Still Represents My Heart: Revisiting 𝑇𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑖 𝑀𝑖 at Thirty” by Bea Phi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/comrades-almost-a-love-story-2.jpg)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Rey Chow and the Politics of Coercive Mimeticism in The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism” by Anna Nguyen Rey Chow. The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism.…
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