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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Tokyo Drift: Mobility of Excess, Geopolitical Imaginaries, and Japan-US Relations in the 2000s” by John Adrianfer Atienza Justin Lin (director). The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, 2006. 104 min.…
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[ESSAY] “How Do You Care for Your Horses After a Break-up?” by Ilaria Maria Sala To Usman Saeed In the streets of Lahore, even on days when they are clogged with traffic, you can sometimes see young men leading a…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Bodies That Exceed the Frame: Reading Andrea Mendoza’s Transpacific Nonencounters” by Tyran Grillo Andrea Mendoza. Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico, Duke University Press, 2026. 208 pgs. Mifune…
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While we continue to welcome general submissions that fall within the remit and ethos of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, we are especially keen to receive work related to Hong Kong. We would love to devote sustained attention to Hong…
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[FICTION] “To Happy Valley” by Alexandre Sadeghi Alexandre Sadeghi on “To Happy Valley”: We’re all just bits and pieces. The idea of being from a place obsesses me. It is an open-ended question for so many of those in between,…
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[FICTION] “Their Voices, Varied and Many” by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Reid Mitchell Do you know where I can buy them in Hong Kong? Tammy Lai-Ming Ho‘s introduction to “Their Voices, Varied and Many”: Reid Mitchell came to Hong Kong…
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[EXCERPT] “Speak Subtitles, Hear Dub” by Kathy Ngoc Nguyen Editor’s introduction: “Speak Subtitles, Hear Dub” is an excerpt from Kathy Ngoc Nguyen’s Nonfluent Bodies, Switchable Tongues, a collection of interconnected stories exploring language, family, and cultural dislocation. The excerpt offers a fictional…
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[ESSAY] “Dubbing Disfluencies: Grief, Translation, and the Vietnamese-American Tongue” by Kathy Ngoc Nguyen Editor’s introduction: In “Dubbing Disfluencies, Grief, Translation, and the Vietnamese-American Tongue”, Kathy Ngoc Nguyen writes about grief, caregiving, memory, and the difficulties of moving between English and…
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[ESSAY] “From Kuala Terengganu to Jakarta: The Job I Turned Down” by Daniel Regan My Peace Corps service cost me a job. I am aware that this sounds improbable, given the prevailing narrative, which holds that a record of Peace…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Unsold Peonies: Rediscovering the Voice of Courtesan, Nun, and Poet Yu Xuanji in Lucas Klein’s Translation” by Jennifer Eagleton Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon Hiding in Caverns.…
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Header artwork by Annysa Ng We’re accepting submissions. Important Notes 茶 Hong Kongclick for information 茶 First Impressionsclick for information 茶 Essays click for information 茶 Proposals click for information 茶 Poetry: En Routeclick for information 茶 Hong Kong &…
