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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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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “A Harrowing Future of Waste in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide” by Loritta Chan Chen Qiufan (author), Ken Liu (translator), Waste Tide, Tor Books, 2019. 352 pgs. They call us “the…
![[ESSAY] “A Harrowing Future of Waste in Chen Qiufan’s 𝑊𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑑𝑒” by Loritta Chan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/chen-qiufan-author-ken-liu-translator-waste-tide.jpg?w=798)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Samrat Upadhyay’s Mad Country: To Adapt and Thrive in the Chaos” by Abhinav Tulachan Samrat Upadhyay, Mad Country, Soho Press, 2017. 304 pgs. Abhinav Tulachan’s copy of Mad Country Following…
![[REVIEW] “Samrat Upadhyay’s 𝑀𝑎𝑑 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦: To Adapt and Thrive in the Chaos” by Abhinav Tulachan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/samrat-upadhyay-mad-country-1.jpg?w=1000)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Donald Keene, The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku, Columbia University Press, 2016. 288 pgs. At the age of fifteen, I first encountered the Chinese translation of…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “A Poet’s Most Unvarnished Desires and Defeats: Donald Keene’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒” by Jiahe Chen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/the-first-modern-japanese-the-life-of-ishikawa-takuboku-2.jpg?w=1000)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS This is a review of the play Min forsvundne onkel (My Missing Uncle 我失蹤的舅舅) produced by Nydanskeren Jimbuts Kulturforening and premiered at Teater FÅR302, Copenhagen, on 2-12 April 2025.…
![[REVIEW] “Reimagining Chinese Queer History and Looking for an Alternative World: A Review of 𝑀𝑦 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑈𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑒” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/untitled_1.4.1-jacob-linholdt.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Asako Yuzuki (author), Polly Barton (translator), Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder, Fourth Estate, 2024. 464 pgs. Butter is inspired by the true story of a…
![[REVIEW] “Asako Yuzuki’s 𝐵𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟: Tasting the Essential Self” by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/butter-a-novel-of-food-and-murder-1.jpg?w=985)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Rob Noble, Octopus: The Pioneering Story of the World’s First Contactless Payment Card, Blacksmith Books, 2023, 396 pgs. As a resident of a city bereft of a…
![[REVIEW] “The Almost Everything Card—Rob Noble’s 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑢𝑠: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑’𝑠 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑃𝑎𝑦𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑑” by Mario Rustan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/octopus-the-pioneering-story-of-the-worlds-first-contactless-payment-card-1.jpg?w=896)
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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. A fascination with…
![[REVIEW] “Ezra Pound’s Chinese Character: What Did the Great Modernist Author Really Know About Confucius in the Original?” by Kerry Brown](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ezra-pounds-chinese-friends-stories-in-letters.jpg?w=637)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran (editors), The Colors of April: Fiction on the Vietnam War’s Legacy 50 Years Later, Three Room Press, 2025. 306 pgs. The Colors of…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “An Empathetic Communion with the Past—𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙: 𝐹𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑛𝑎𝑚 𝑊𝑎𝑟’𝑠 𝐿𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑐𝑦 50 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟” by Aaron Gerhart](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/the-colors-of-april-fiction-on-the-vietnam-wars-legacy-50-years-later--1.jpg?w=1000)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Hideko Abe, Queer Japanese: Gender and Sexual Identities through Linguistic Practices, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 199 pgs. Queer Japanese: Gender and Sexual Identities through Linguistic Practices offers readers a glimpse…
![[REVIEW] “Speaking in Queer Tongues: Language, Identity, and Everyday Resistance in Hideko Abe’s 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒” by Jane McBride](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/queer-japanese-gender-and-sexual-identities-through-linguist-practices-1.jpg?w=827)
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