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📁RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Strange Beasts. Yan Ge (author) and Jeremy Tiang (translator), Strange Beasts of China, Tilted Axis Press, 2020. 314 pgs. Each of the stories in Yan Ge’s…
![[REVIEW] “The Unconcealed Rebellion, Cynicism, Bravery and Romanticism of Being Painfully Young: Yan Ge’s 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Jacqueline Leung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/strange-beasts-of-china.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Matthew Schneider-Mayerson (editor), Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environment Perspectives on Life in Singapore, Ethos Books, 2020. 276 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Greenwashed: A Review of 𝐸𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖 𝐶𝑟𝑎𝑏 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑒” by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/eating-chilli-crab-in-the-anthropocene-environment-perspectives-on-life-in-singapore-1.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Carlos Rojas (special issue editor), Method as Method, V16: N2 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Duke University Press, 2019. Twenty years ago, as a graduate student newly arrived in the…
![[REVIEW] “Theories, Methods, Objects, and Localities: A Review of Method as Method” by Liang Luo](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/prism_method-as-method.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Travis S. K. Kong, Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten 男男正傳︰香港年長男同志口述史, Hong Kong University Press, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “See How Much I Love You: Reviewing Travis S. K. Kong’s 𝑂𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑂𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐺𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/oral-histories-of-older-gay-men-in-hong-kong_travis-s-k-kong.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Joshua Bird, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} John Fitzgerald and Hon-ming Yip (editors), Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific 1850-1949 華僑慈善與環太平洋區的廣東人世界 1850–1949, Hong Kong University Press, 2020.…
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Co-Editor Tammy Lai-Ming Ho‘s note: Jonathan Stalling’s “Evolving from Embryo and Changing the Bones: Translating the Sonorous” 奪胎換骨: 譯詩存音, re-published below, first appeared in Issue 22 (December 2013) of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, themed “Ancient Asia” and guest edited by Lucas Klein, who…
![[FEATURE] “Evolving from Embryo and Changing the Bones: Translating the Sonorous” by Jonathan Stalling](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/invisible-poem-du-fu-welcome-rain-on-a-spring-night-150x300cm-acrylic-on-canvas-2012.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Vania Tabanelli, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} JinJin Xu, There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife, Radix Media, 2020. 35 pgs. JinJin Xu is a writer and filmmaker…
![[REVIEW] “A Laboratory of Fine Imagery: Reviewing JinJin Xu’s There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife” by Vania Tabanelli](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/there-is-still-singing-in-the-afterlife-by-jinjin-xu-1.jpg?w=1024)
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Translation Editor Lucas Klein‘s note: I started CipherJournal in 2003 to be an online venue for creative literary translation and writing about literary translation. At the end of 2004 I received a submission from Don Mee Choi of translations of poetry by…
![[FEATURE] “Translationese” by Don Mee Choi and Tony Barnstone](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/brice-marden-etchings-for-rexroth-17.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Too Too Too Too, Math Paper Press, 2018. 100 pgs. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho’s second book of poems, Too Too Too Too, is a book of tensions—between the styles of poetry…
![[REVIEW] “Too Too Too Too Is Not Too Much” by Lucas Klein](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/too-too-too-too-by-tammy-lai-ming-ho-math-paper-press.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Elaine Chiew, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Hongwei Bao, Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature And Visual Culture Under Postsocialism, Routledge (London & New York, 2020), 213 pgs. Shaping…
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