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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Things immortal: Kohei Igarashi’s Super Happy Forever” by Peixuan Xie Kohei Igarashi (director). Super Happy Forever (2024), 95 min. Everybody is doomed to grieve one thing or another at some point, you…
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[FICTION] “The Monkey King’s Dilemma” by T. A. Morton T. A. Morton’s introduction: The Monkey King is a known troublemaker. He has always pushed boundaries, from his time stealing peaches of immortality to wrecking the Queen Mother of the West’s…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Impossibility of Coming Home: Love, Memory and Political Trauma in Yan Geling’s Criminal Lu Yanshi” by Karen Ma Geling Yan (author), Lawrence A. Walker (translator). Criminal Lu Yanshi, New Song Media…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Gigi L. Leung’s Everyday Movement: Momentum within Moments” by Tin Yuet Tam Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Everyday Movement. Gigi L. Leung (author), Jennifer Feeley (translator), Everyday Movement, Riverhead Books. 2026.…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “My Name Is Not Eileen: Geck Geck Priscilla Ang’s Ah Girl” by Ken Lam Geck Geck Priscilla Ang (director). Ah Girl, 2026. 99 min. Childhood here is not scaled-down…
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[FICTION] “Blue Eyed Pigs” by Jonathan Han Jonathan Han on “Blue Eyed Pigs”: Twenty years ago, Hong Kong was the busiest port in the world, the greatest trade centre by measures that extended beyond the abstract and the fiscal. Older…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Tammy Lai-Ming Ho’s If I Do Not Reply Is Poetry, Gentle Irony and Defiance” by Cyril Camus Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on If I Do Not Reply. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, If…
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[ESSAY] “The Punch and the Punchline: How Two Wongs from Hong Kong Made Me Right” by Felix Cheong Singapore is very multicultural in that way. Two Wongs have made me right, at least in my imagination. I am referring to Tony…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Tenderness Persists Amidst Looming Displacement in When Heaven Inched Towards Earth” by Lorence Lozano Vinh Marco Tumang (director). When Heaven Inched Towards Earth, 2026. 20 min. Cinepanalo has gone theme-free this year,…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Violence of Being Understood: Rio Shimamoto’s First Love” by Tyran Grillo Rio Shimamoto (author), Louise Heal Kawai (translator). First Love. Honford Star, 2024. 280 pgs. In Narratage (2005), Rio Shimamoto follows a young…
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