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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {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…
![[REVIEW] “Man of Letters: Ha Jin’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝐼𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙: 𝐴 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑖 𝐵𝑎𝑖” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/the-banished-immortal.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Wong Wen Pu, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Kirsten Han, The Silhouette of Oppression, Epigram Books, 2019. 48 pgs. ❀ Alfian Sa’at, A Manifesto for Arts…
![[REVIEW] “Rational Conversations: Some Essays on Political and Civic Sustainability in Singapore” by Wong Wen Pu](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/rational-conversations-2.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Ophelia Tung Ho Yiu, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Kit Kelen, As to the ladders of whichway, ASM, 2014. 165 pgs. ❀ 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.} {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…
![[REVIEW] “My Kind of Demons: 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑠’ 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑡: 𝐴 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/a-novel-from-ming-china.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} 📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yi T’aejun (author), Janet Poole (translator),…
![[Review] “Deep down he felt a little jealous of his own writing; or, time never passes as quickly as when holding a pen—Yi T’aejun’s 𝐷𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/dust-and-other-stories_asian-cha.jpg?w=1024)
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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…
![[REVIEW] “The Frustrating Elegance of Gina Apostol’s 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜” by Gabrielle Flores](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gina-apostols-insurrecto.jpg?w=1024)
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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…
![[Review] “A Trilingual History of Benevolence: Brian Castro & John Young’s 𝑀𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑢 𝐷𝑎𝑦𝑠” by Jennifer Mackenzie](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/macau-days_cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nigel Collett, A Death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal,…
![[REVIEW] “Nigel Collett’s 𝐴 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑐𝐿𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 1980 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑆𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑙” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/a-death-in-hong-kong_cropped.jpg?w=1024)
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As part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership with the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation and supported by the English Departments at CUHK and HKBU, I have now taught nine 90-minute creative writing workshops for female refugees affiliated with the Christian…
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We are very pleased to announce that we have nominated the following three poems for the Hawker Prize 2019. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! “Mama Was Reciting from the Book of Revelation” by Jeffrey B. Javier (“Writing the…
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