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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing, Algonquin Books, 2021. 368 pgs. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s The Mountains Sing is a rare accomplishment: a Vietnamese novel written in…
![[REVIEW] “Narrative Reclamation: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑔” by Zalman S. Davis](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/the-mountains-sing-hardcover-e28093-march-17-2020-by-nguyen-phan-que-mai.jpg?w=996)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Philip Yung (director), Papa, 2024. 131 min. Prologue: Watching Hong Kong films overseas is a transposing experience. When I leave a cinema in Toronto after watching a…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “𝑃𝑎𝑝𝑎: Time to Forgive” by Tin Yuet Tam](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/philip-yung-director-papa-2024.-131-min-1.jpg?w=923)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Shinya Tsukamoto 塚本晋也, Tetsuo: The Iron Man 鉄男, 1989. 67 min. I leave the factory. Pass through a haze of cigarette smoke. Walk to the car. Slide…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Viewing 𝑇𝑒𝑡𝑠𝑢𝑜: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑟𝑜𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑛 in an Old Pajama Factory in a Small Town America” by Kristen Cantor](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/shinya-tsukamoto-tetsuo-the-iron-man-e98984e794b7.jpg?w=600)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Ezra Pound’s Chinese Friends. Zhaoming Qian (editor), Ezra Pound’s Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters, Oxford University Press. 2008. 272 pgs. Ezra Pound never…
![[REVIEW] “”Eastern Liaisons: 𝐸𝑧𝑟𝑎 𝑃𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑’𝑠 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠” by Andrew Fan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ezra-pound.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Steven Schwankert, The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic’s Chinese Survivors. Simon & Schuster, 2025. 240 pgs. When the transatlantic ocean liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Six Questions about the Six—Steven Schwankert’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑥: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐’𝑠 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑠” by Ryan Ho Kilpatrick](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/steven-schwankert-the-six-the-untold-story-of-the-titanics-chinese-survivors-1.jpg?w=988)
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◉ On Becoming a Hong Kongese Writer◉ Sunset at Lion Rock: An Excerpt Matthew Wong Foreman, Sunset at Lion Rock, Proverse Press, 2024. 288 pgs. {Read Jason S Polley’s review.} In my Hong Kong, the Hong Kong of our hearts, we greet each…
![[FEATURE] “𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝐿𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘: An Excerpt” by Matthew Wong Foreman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/matthew-wong-foreman-sunset-at-lion-rock-1.webp?w=663)
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◉ On Becoming a Hong Kongese Writer◉ Sunset at Lion Rock: An Excerpt Matthew Wong Foreman, Sunset at Lion Rock, Proverse Press, 2024. 288 pgs. {Read Jason S Polley’s review.} For over 2,000 years, apocalyptic visions of doom—of the End Times, of destruction,…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Anna Qu, Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor, Catapult, 2021. 224 pgs. Made in China is a sensitive, thoughtful exploration of the inextricable ties between labour,…
![[REVIEW] “Negotiating Love and Labour in Anna Qu’s 𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Fion Tse](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/made-in-china-anna-qu.jpg?w=993)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Cho Nam-joo. Cho Nam-Joo (author), Jamie Chang (translator), Saha: A Novel, Liveright, 2023. 161 pgs. Cho Nam-Joo’s Saha: A Novel (《사하맨션》, 2019) presents a dystopian…
![[REVIEW] “Narrating the Margins of the Future: Cho Nam-Joo’s 𝑆𝑎ℎ𝑎” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cho-nam-joos-saha.jpg?w=789)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Shuchi Talati (director), Girls Will Be Girls, 2024. 118 min. Female sexuality has long remained one of the most stringently policed and anxiously mediated territories. The erotic interiority of…
![[REVIEW] “Shuchi Talati’s 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝐵𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠: A Stirring, Sublime Portrait of Becoming” by Ananya Singh](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/girls-will-be-girls-2.webp?w=780)
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