• China: What It Is, What It Could Be

    originally posted here   CHINA: WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT COULD BE . In an interview in 2008, I was asked whether my loyalty lay with “Hong Kong” or “China.” I remember finding the question easy to answer: “Hong Kong,…

    China: What It Is, What It Could Be

  • Branch Magazine, The Private Parts Issue, is now live

    – The Private Parts Issue of Branch Magazine is now live. You can read and enjoy the extremely beautiful new issue here. Branch is co-founded and co-edited by Gillian Sze and Roberutsu. Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. Roberutsu’s artwork was published…

  • Cha contributors in Asymptote

    The July issue of  Asymptote is now live. This is the publication’s biggest and boldest issue to date. It features a new Upaniṣad translation, master of the lyric novel Shen Congwen, “Ghalib Redux”, poems by Tomaž Šalamun, the philosophy of…

  • Nicholas Y. B. Wong in qarrtsiluni

    – Nicholas Y. B. Wong’s poem “They Say the Spring Breeze Has Come” is now published in qarrtsiluni. Read it here. – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –

  • Gillian Sze in Room

    –Gillian Sze’s new poems “Gypsy Moth” and “To the Photographer in the Countryside” are now published in Room. Learn more here.–Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile.––

  • Gillian Sze in Encore Literary Magazine

    – Gillian Sze’s new poem “The Day After I Lost My Mittens” is now published in Encore Literary Magazine. Read it here. – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. – –

  • Two ways to consider clouds

    Edinburgh, May 2011 ––ARIEL.All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I comeTo answer thy best pleasure; be’t to fly,To swim, to dive into the fire, to rideOn the curl’d clouds; to thy strong bidding taskAriel and all his quality. …..…

  • Does one need to be dissatisfied to be a writer?

    Quote of the day – Pamuk on ‘dissatisfaction’ I was reading the “The New Lyric Studies” section of the January 2008 edition of PMLA but found the interview with Orhan Pamuk interesting as well. In it, Pamuk talks about his…

  • Cucumber sandwiches

    ‘Honour of the cucumber’ ‘Cucumber sandwiches’ — often a simplistic avatar of the English upper class in literature. I have never had one, have you? ‎’[P]oems are worth all the cucumber-sandwiches in the world […] the perfect green circles —…

  • Nicolette Wong in Apocrypha and Abstractions

    –Nicolette Wong’s flash fiction “The Warrior” is now up at Apocrypha and Abstractions. Read it here.–Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha.–=