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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Beyond First Love: Family Trauma and the Search for Connection in Rio Shimamoto’s First Love” by James Kin Pong Au Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon First Love.…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Between Hegel and Home: Reading Fukuyama’s In the Realm of the Last Man” by Raymond Pun Francis Fukuyama. In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir, Farrar, Straus and…
![[REVIEW] “Between Hegel and Home: Reading Fukuyama’s 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑀𝑎𝑛” by Raymond Pun](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Francis-Fukuyama.-In-the-Realm-of-the-Last-Man-A-Memoir-.jpg)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Body Part 520: Crime and Tragic Romance in Herman Yau’s We’re Nothing at All” by Jennifer Eagleton Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on We’re Nothing at All. Herman Yau (director). We’re…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Politics of Smallness and the Power of Cute in Hui Faye Xiao’s Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First Century China” by Géraldine Fiss Hui Faye Xiao. Youth Economy,…
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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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