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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Beyond Stereotypes: Ronald Weitzer’s Sex Tourism in Thailand” by Akin Jeje Ronald Weitzer, Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground, New York University Press, 2023. 337 pgs. Ronald…
![[REVIEW] “Beyond Stereotypes: Ronald Weitzer’s 𝑆𝑒𝑥 𝑇𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sex-tourism-in-thailand-inside-asias-premier-erotic-playground-1.jpg?w=1000)
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📁RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Sanaka Hiiragi (author), Jesse Kirkwood (translator), The Lantern of Lost Memories, Picador, 2024. 224 pgs. What if, when you die, someone greets you with drinks and snacks, briefing you…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Between the Living and the Dead: Sanaka Hiiragi’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by Aditi Yadav](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sanaka-hiiragi.png?w=1024)
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📁RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Benjamin Hegarty, The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia, Cornell University Press, 2022. 198 pgs. I grew up seeing transwomen day and night. During the day,…
![[REVIEW] “Dress Up for Indonesia: Benjamin Hegarty’s The Made-Up State” by Mario Rustan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/finalreadingsbooklaunch20april2023_poster.jpg?w=816)
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📁RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yasunari Kawabata (author), Edward G. Seidensticker (translator), Snow Country, Vintage, 1996. 192 pgs. The short review goes a little something like this: Is it possible for one to love…
![[REVIEW] “Love Lies Wasted: Yasunari Kawabata’s 𝑆𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦” by A. B. Freeman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/yasunari-kawabata.jpeg?w=1000)
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📁RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Paul French, Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson, St. Martin’s Press, 2024. 298 pgs. Wallis Simpson will forever be imprinted on British…
![[REVIEW] “Remembering Wallis—Paul French’s 𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑜𝑡𝑢𝑠 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟: 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑠 𝑆𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑠𝑜𝑛” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/f09d90bbf09d9192f09d919f-f09d90bff09d919cf09d91a1f09d91a2f09d91a0-f09d918cf09d9192f09d918ef09d919f-f09d90b6e2848ef09d9196f09d919bf09d918e-f09d91a1e2848ef09d9192-f09d9185f09d919cf09d918ef.png?w=1024)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Shiori Ito’s Black Box Diaries: Documentation is a Political Action, Courage Too” by Peixuan Xie Shiori Ito (director), Black Box Diaries, 2024. 102 min. This review may contain spoilers. In…
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![Protected: [REVIEW] “All in All, We’re Just Another Brick in the Wall—Saikat Majumdar’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑢𝑟: 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑓-𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑦” by Kabir Deb](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-amateur.png?w=600)
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Chris Song’s note: Roses in the Floating World 浮世薔薇 is the debut novel of Luwei Rose Luqiu 閭丘露薇, bearing an autobiographical touch as it recounts the lives of three generations of women—Miss Zhao, Ruolin, and Xiaoyu. The narrative follows these…
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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 feature All We Imagine as Light is…
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