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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 The Woman in the Purple Skirt. Natsuko Imamura (author), Lucy North (translator), The Woman in the Purple Skirt, Penguin Random House, 2021. 224 pgs. The conventional…
![[REVIEW] “Thin Line Between Observing and Stalking: Natsuko Imamura’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑆𝑘𝑖𝑟𝑡” by Fathima M](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/the-woman-in-the-purple-skirt.jpg?w=925)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ryu Murakami (author), Ralph McCarthy (translator), In the Miso Soup, Kodansha International, 2003. 180 pgs. Picture a dismembered corpse of a sixteen-year-old girl dumped at a trash collection site…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Floating Around in Ryu Murakami’s 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑜 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑝” by Anna Moon](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/in-the-miso-soup.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Teinosuke Kinugasa (director), A Page of Madness, 1926. 70 min. It’s almost Halloween as I write this and it seems fitting to think about what it is that makes…
![[REVIEW] “𝐴 𝑃𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 and the Cinema of the Uncanny” by Jeremiah Dutch](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/a-page-of-madness-film.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Aruni Kashyap, The Way You Want to Be Loved, Gaudy Boy, 2024. 256 pgs. In the first story of Aruni Kashyap’s short story collection, the narrator, a writer of…
![[REVIEW] “The Ways to Belonging in Stories: Aruni Kashyap’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑦 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑊𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝐵𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑” by Faith Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/the-way-you-want-to-be-loved.jpg?w=971)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Chaos and Order: The Way of Johnnie To, a 24-film retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 12 September–13 October 2024. Exiled 《放·逐》 2006. Hong Kong.…
![[REVIEW] “Johnnie To Unleashes Chaos and Order at New York’s Museum of Modern Art” by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/exiled_johnnieto.jpeg?w=1024)
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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 All We Imagine as Light. Payal Kapadia (director), All We Imagine as Light, 2024. 118 min. Payal Kapadia’s debut film, A Night of Knowing Nothing…
![[REVIEW] “Elegy on Love and Migration: Payal Kapadia’s 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑊𝑒 𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡” by Namah](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/all-we-imagine-as-light.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kelly H. Chong, Love Across Borders: Asian Americans, Race, and the Politics of Intermarriage and Family-Making, Routledge, 2021, 246 pgs. As a single Asian man, I was once oversensitive…
![[REVIEW] “It’s Only Love: Kelly H. Chong’s 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝐴𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝐵𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠” by Mario Rustan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/love-across-borders-asian-americans-race-and-the-politics-of-intermarriage-and-family-making.jpg?w=1000)
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Chris Song’s note: Lü Lun’s “Piano Day” tells the story of May, a Garbo-like beauty who uses her piano sessions to extract tributes from men, ensnaring both T and P in a web of emotional temptation and entanglement. Like Lü Lun’s…
![[TRANSLATION] “Piano Day” by Lü Lun, translated by Chris Song](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lu-lun-e4beb6e580ab_cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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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 Half Sound, Half Philosophy. Jing Wang, Half Sound, Half Philosophy: Aesthetics, Politics of China’s Sound Art, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 232 pgs. Half Sound, Half Philosophy:…
![[REVIEW] “The World of Sound as Art in China: Jing Wang’s 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑, 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦” by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/half-sound-half-philosophy.png?w=938)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Daryl Lim Wei Jie, Hamid Roslan, Melizarani T. Selva, and William Tham (editors), The Second Link: An Anthology of Malaysian and Singaporean Writing, Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2023. 320 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Reunion Dinner: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑘 Serves Up A Careful Feast” by Theophilus Kwek](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/the-second-link-an-anthology-of-malaysian-and-singaporean-writing.png?w=892)
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