• Monica Ali, Homi K. Bhabha and Hsu-Ming Teo are the judges for the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize. There is a new format this year: the prize is opened to all novels by Asian writers published in English each year.…

  • Bob Bradshaw has a new poem, “Divorce dogfight” in the new issue of Eclectica Magazine. Read it here. ––Read Bob Bradshaw’s Cha profile.––

  • 80± ─ 80後眼中的80後a photobook project by Mary Lee –只是一些1980年代成長的人的肖像。「80後」這個詞被人說得太多了,說濫了,甚至變成了專有名詞,象徵了某幾種對80年代出生的年輕人的描寫分析:高深的、陰謀論的、批判的、片面的,但都是別人附加於我們身上的。標籤成為了沒有意義的符號。所以,這一次,不以文字,只以影像,由我們自己來說明,80後眼中的80後。–我們成長於一個很有趣的世代。因著數碼化相機的普及,每一個80後至少擁有一部私人相機。拍照不再是大時大節時才做的事,也不是專業攝影師的特權,拿著一部手提電話,我們已經能拍照。也有的回歸菲林相機,Toy Camera 如LOMO、Polaroid,甚至針孔相機,在80後之間也越發受歡迎。不論是自拍還是拍身邊的人,我們對自身和身邊的人的感覺是越發敏銳,也越發希望以自己的角度出發,去拍我們眼中的自己和世界。–這攝影集集結了各行各業的80前後人像作品,他們有的是攝影師,有的是藝術家,但更多的是跟藝術行業完全無關的人,也有在學中的學生。當中有數碼相機、LOMO、Polaroid、Fuji Mini、針孔相機等各種形式的作品。沒有專業業餘優劣之分,只想呈現各位愛拍照的80後眼中的80後而已。這次特別選出了取景於日常香港的人像作品,想藉此也表現出80後跟這個城市的關係。– **** 80± ─ 80後眼中的80後: a photobook project by Mary Lee策劃 :Mary Lee 李挽靈網址 :http://80photobook.blogspot.com電郵 :80photobook@gmail.com–出版 :李挽靈發表日期 :2010年香港書展,kubrick 獨家發售(攤位1B-D36)定價 :港幣90元ISBN :978-988-19458-1-5––Mary Lee’s photography was published in issue #1, issue…

  • We are very happy to announce that Cha contributor Melody S. Gee‘s first collection of poetry, Each Crumbling House, is now published by Perugia Press. Each Crumbling House won the 2010 Perugia Press Book Prize. – Book description: How is…

  • The June 2010 issue of Asiatic is now live. Read Eddie Tay’s review of Writing Singapore: An Historical Anthology of Singapore Literature pdf, Agnes Lam’s review of Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore pdf (edited by Alvin Pang), and a review…

  • Po Chu-I (白居易), poet from the Tang Dynasty A Message to Po Chu-I–W.S. Merwin – In that tenth winter of your exilethe cold never letting go of youand your hunger aching inside youday and night while you heard the voicesout…

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  • Picture from here The Urbanized Villages in the South Jiangsu Province–Xu Ming-de, translated from the Chinese by Ziqing Zhang –– There are no longer bird’s nests in sparse treesnor any smoke rising from kitchen chimneys aroundthe tree branches in the…

  • Cha contributor Marco Yan has a new poem, “Fishing by the City Ferry Pier”, published in the new issue of Foundling Review. Read the poem here. Remember to read Marco’s note on the piece as well! – –Marco Yan’s fiction…

  • Picture from here Nine Million Bicycles–Mike Batt[Listen to the song here.]– There are nine million bicycles in BeijingThat’s a fact,It’s a thing we can’t denyLike the fact that I will love you till I die. We are twelve billion light…