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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…
![[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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