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{Written by Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jason Y. Ng and Susan Blumberg-Kason (editors), Hong Kong Noir, Akashic and Blacksmith Books, 2018. 256 pgs. Elegiac…
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{Written by Mario Rustan, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Patrick H. Hase, Forgotten Heroes: San On County and its Magistrates in the Late Ming and Early Qing,…
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ivy Ngeow, Heart of Glass, Unbound Digital, 2018. 256 pgs. I was in New York in January for…
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ha Jin, The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai, Patheon, 2019. 320 pgs. From the pen of…
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{Written by Ophelia Tung Ho Yiu, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} βΒ Kit Kelen,Β As to the ladders of whichway, ASM, 2014. 165 pgs. βΒ Roger Palmer and Tim Simpson,…
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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Quelling the Demons’ Revolt: A Novel from Ming China, Luo Guanzhong (attributed author) Patrick Hanan (translator), Columbia…
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{Written by Gabrielle Flores, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Gina Apostol, Insurrecto, Soho Press, 2018. 336 pgs. It’s hard to begin a review for a novel that…
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{Written by Jennifer Mackenzie, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Brian Castro & John Young, Macau Days, Art+Australia Publishing, 2017. 187 pgs. For more than five centuries, the…


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