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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Order in the City: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho’sIf I Do Not Reply” by Luca Griseri Clickย HERE to readย all entries inย Chaย onย If I Do Not Reply. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, If I Do Not…
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on The Milk Tea Alliance. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asiaโs Struggle against Autocracy and Beijing, Columbia Global Reports, 2025. 104 pgs. The…
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Plato, in The Symposium, conceives of Eros as a love for the ideals of beauty and goodnessโsymbolising spiritual communion within and between souls. Later, Sigmund Freud introduced Eros into ontology: “Existence is essentially a pursuit of love, which becomes the…
![[EXCLUSIVE] โThe Manifestation of Eros: On the Construction of the Eros Image in Hong Sang-soo’s Filmsโ by Hanyin Xu](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/hong-sang-soo.jpg?w=1000)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Clickย HERE to readย all entries inย Chaย onย The Milk Tea Alliance. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asiaโs Struggle against Autocracy and Beijing, Columbia Global Reports, 2025. 104 pgs. Jeffrey…
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay, Penguin Random House, 2022. 224 pgs. Joan is Okay, the sophomore novel by Weike Wang, opens with the line: โWhen I think about…
![[REVIEW] โThe Telos of Toil: Reading Weike Wang’s ๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฆ Through Labour and Identityโ by Tiffany Troy](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/weike-wang-joan-is-okay.png?w=1024)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Gilda Cordero-Fernando, The Last Full Moon: Lessons on My Life, University of the Philippines Press and GCF Books, 2005. 250 pgs. “I don’t want to be boring ever.”โChappell…
![[REVIEW] โGrandmothered! A Filipina Gen Z’s Critique of Gilda Cordero-Fernando’s ๐โ๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ก ๐น๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐๐โ by Janelle Tanguin](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/gilda-cordero-fernando-the-last-full-moon-lessons-of-my-life.jpg?w=1024)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Shunji Iwai (director), Undo, 1994. 47 min. The film Undo (1994) by Shunji Iwai is modest in length at just 47 minutes. Yet the narrative never feels rushed,…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Beyond Earshot: Transcribing Meaning in Shunji Iwaiโs ๐๐๐๐” by Miran Tsay](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/shunji-iwai.jpg?w=1024)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Anand Patwardhan, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The World is Family), 2023. 96 min. “เฎฏเฎพเฎคเฏเฎฎเฏ เฎเฎฐเฏ! เฎฏเฎพเฎตเฎฐเฏเฎฎเฏ เฎเฏเฎณเฎฟเฎฐเฏ!” (โEvery place is our homeland, everyone is our kinโ)โthese words from the Tamil…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] โBetween Memory and History: Anand Patwardhan’s ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐โ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐พ๐ข๐ก๐ข๐๐๐๐๐๐โ by Kathiravan Annamalai](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/anand-patwardhan-vasudhaiva-kutumbakam-the-world-is-family-.png?w=1024)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on In the Mood for Love. Wong Kar-wai (director), In the Mood for Love, 2000. 98 min. Some films are simply like thatโfrom the moment you…
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Uketsu (author), Jim Rion (translator), Strange Pictures, HarperVia, 2025. 240 pgs. In the Prologue, we are told: โAll right, everyone, now Iโm going to show you a picture.โ…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] โThe Reader as Detective: Uketsuโs ๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐ข๐๐๐ โ by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/uketsu-author-jim-rion-translator-strange-pictures-harpervia-2025.png?w=974)
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