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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Christina Yi, Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea, Columbia University Press,…
![[REVIEW] “Uncontrollable Forces: Christina Yi’s 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒: 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐾𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑎” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/colonizing-language-1.png?w=384)
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4 June 2019 will mark thirty years since the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, when the Chinese government crushed the nascent democracy movement led by students and workers. The ensuing decades have brought tumultuous changes to the culture, politics,…
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This Cha and Stray Cats Jimusho event was 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, and it was conducted on Saturday 24 November 2018.…
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{This piece is part of the special section on Meng Lang in Issue 44 (June 2019) of Cha.} My friend Meng Lang passed away in Hong Kong on 12 December 2018 .The fact that I heard the news on my birthday (16…
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{Written by Chloe Leung, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Cheryl Pallant, Ginseng Tango, Big Table Publishing Company, 2017. 211 pgs. Ginseng: a slow-growing and energy-boosting plant found…
![[Review] “A Tangoed Soul with Tangled Roots: Cheryl Pallant’s Ginseng Tango” by Chloe Leung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ginseng-Tango.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Cindy Rinne, Quiet Lantern: A Novel in Verse, Turning Point Books, 2016. 116 pgs. ❀ Khairani Barokka, Rope, Nine…
![[REVIEW] “Soldiers of the Heart: Poetry by Cindy Rinne, Khairani Barokka and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta” by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Alana-Leilani-Teves-Cabrera-Narciso-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sarge Lacuesta, A Waiting Room Companion, BUGHAW, 2017. 188 pgs. As I looked at the cover of A…
![[REVIEW] “Poor, Rich Kid: Sarge Lacuesta’s A Waiting Room Companion” by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/A-Waiting-Room-Companion_Sarge-Lacuesta.jpg?w=1024)
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This Cha and WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong Ltd. event was 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, and it was conducted on Sunday 11…
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{Written by Grace Chia, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Liu Yiqing (compiler), ZhenJun Zhang (editor and translator), Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the…
![[Review] “Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic” by Grace Chia](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hidden-and-Visible-Realms-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wendy Chen, Unearthings, Tavern Books, 2018. 104 pgs. In her debut poetry collection Unearthings, Wendy Chen muses on…
![[Review] “Reading History Slowly: Wendy Chen’s Unearthings” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Unearthings-1.jpg?w=386)
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