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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Sacred Body, Violated Soil: Semi-Colonialism, Social Hypocrisy and the Female Body in Wu Yonggang’s The Goddess” by Hilda Wong Wu Yonggang (director). The Goddess, 1934. 73 min. She is a…
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[ESSAY] “Off the Map” by Miên Túc It was an August day in 2006. Almost ten years old, I took some paper, pencils, and crayons to do what I had always loved to do in my free time: sitting by…
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Every year, the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers recognizes 12 emerging writers for their debut short story published in a literary magazine, journal, or cultural website, and aims to support the launch of their careers as…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Satire, Science, and Utopia: Wu Jianren’s New Story of the Stone” by Ronald Gray Wu Jianren (author), Liz Evans Weber (translator). New Story of the Stone: An Early Chinese Science…
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[INCIDENTAL] “Resolute Voices Across Time: Virginia Woolf, Eileen Chang, and Chow Hang-tung” by Patrick Poon Few would think to place the British writer Virginia Woolf, the Chinese writer Eileen Chang, and Chow Hang-tung, the Hong Kong barrister and Vice-Chairperson of…
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[ESSAY] “Spongeboy” by Kin Pan The author with his grandmother outside Sydney Town Hall in the Olympic year, 2000. Her Cantonese isn’t the melodic speech of a Hong Kong film. In my first Mandarin class, the teacher asks why each…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Last Cry: Light, Love and Everyday Evil in We’re Nothing at All” by Tin Yuet Tam Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on We’re Nothing at All. Herman Yau (director). We’re Nothing at…
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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…
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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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