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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Lav Diaz’s Magellan: From Counter-Time to Counter-History” by Ramzzi Fariñas Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Magellan. Lav Diaz (director), Magellan, 2025. 165 min. If the art of history is to be…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “History as Painting: Lav Diaz’s Magellan” by Alicia Izharuddin Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Magellan. Lav Diaz (director), Magellan, 2025. 165 min. The most striking aspect of Lav Diaz’s Magellan is…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari, The Menon Investigation, Penguin Random House India, 2025. 246 pgs. In the world of crime cinema, the Austrian film director and screenwriter Fritz Lang is considered…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Things Fall Apart: Kong Shangren’s The Peach Blossom Fan” by Jeff Tompkins Kong Shangren (author), Wai-yee Li (translator). The Peach Blossom Fan, Oxford University Press, 2024. 816 pgs. Wai-yee Li…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Haunted by Words, Hunted by Silence: Mani Rao’s Radical Intimacy in So That You Know” by Wani Nazir Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on So That You Know. Mani Rao, So That…
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Editor’s note: This conversation between Shuang Xiao 肖爽 and T. L. Tsim 詹德隆, former director of Chinese University Press, provides a wide-ranging reflection on Hong Kong’s cultural and literary landscape of the 1980s, highlighting Tsim’s collaboration with John Minford on Renditions…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “A Glimpse of Filipino Gamers’ Lives in Mikhail Red’s Friendly Fire” by Bryan Elijah Trajano Mikhail Red (director), Friendly Fire, 2024. 112 min. As esports continue to gain traction in the…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Joan E. Ericson, Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women’s Literature, University of Hawai’i Press, 1997. 292 pgs. The vicissitudes of women’s literature in Japan have undergone…
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◉ Afterword: Living Between Languages◉ Three Poems◉ Anything but Human 大重啟 @ TrendLit Publishing Living between languages by Daryl Lim Wei Jie My poetry was brewed in the multilingual kitchen that is Singapore. The translational and the interlingual—that is, existing…
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◉ Afterword: Living Between Languages◉ Three Poems◉ Anything but Human 大重啟 @ TrendLit Publishing Expressionof Contentment by Daryl Lim Wei Jie I am extraordinarily really verycomfortable even my toes have gone forpsychoanalysis and my nose hairs havetheir favourite brand of…
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