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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Revisiting Farewell My Concubine: Is Devotion Enough to Keep Art Alive?” by Stella Kwok Chen Kaige (director). Farewell My Concubine, 1993. 172 min. Like everyone in the audience, I was…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Our Land: What Hero Still Understands About the Price of a Country” by Zubair Mahar Zhang Yimou (director). Hero, 2002. 99 min. I was fifteen, and I had come…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Body Remade: On Sarah Wang’s New Skin” by Kailee Haong Ellis Sarah Wang. New Skin, Little, Brown and Company, 2026. 448 pgs. “Body horror” receives a new definition in…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Writing After Malaya: Literature, Revolution, and the Silences of History” by Elias König All things Jeremy Tiang in Cha. ❀ Hai Fan (author), Jeremy Tiang (translator). Delicious Hunger, Tilted Axis…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Ecstasy of Love: The Precarious Line Between Reality and Illusion in Kiwi Chow’s Beyond the Dream” by Hilda Wong Kiwi Chow (director). Beyond the Dream, 2019. 120 min. Is…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Weight of Change: Shuang Xuetao’s Hunter” by Seiya Tanase All things Jeremy Tiang in Cha. Shuang Xuetao (author), Jeremy Tiang (translator). Hunter, Granta Books, 2025. 288 pgs. In a…
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[ESSAY] “Home” by Daniel Cheng Right: A photograph taken by the author in NewfoundlandLeft: A photograph taken by the author during his first semester in Waterloo I’m flying home to Newfoundland for Christmas, for the first time since leaving home.…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Ancient Fears, Modern Horrors: Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror“ by Jennifer Eagleton Xueting Christine Ni (translator and editor), Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror, Solaris, 2024. 496 pgs.…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Scattered Thoughts and Admiration for Her Name Upon the Strand and Other Tammythings: A Partial Retrospective” by Cyril Camus Click here to read all entries in Chaon An Extraterrestrial 🌻…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Hearing the Pandemic: Sound, State, and Care in Christina Schwenkel’s Sonic Socialism” by Hantian Zhang Christina Schwenkel. Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi, University of California Press, 2025.…
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