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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (author), Trudy Dixon & Richard Baker (editors), Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, Weatherhill, 1970. 144 pgs. “We must exist…
![[REVIEW] “A ‘Here and Now’ Mantra: Shunryu Suzuki Roshi’s 𝑍𝑒𝑛 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑑” by Maria Dorillo](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/zen-mind-beginners-mind.jpg?w=955)
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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 Bluebeard’s First Wife. Ha Seong-nan (author), Janet Hong (translator), Bluebeard’s First Wife, Open Letter Books, 2020. 230 pgs. The following words resonate throughout the eleven…
![[REVIEW] “Outside Cones of Light was Total Darkness: Ha Seong-nan’s 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑’𝑠 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑊𝑖𝑓𝑒” by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ha-seong-nanauthor-janet-hong-translator-bluebeards-first-wife.jpg?w=971)
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Perhaps Misguided: Aneeta Sundararaj’s 𝑇𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑑” by Grace Najmulski
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Tapestry of the Mind. Aneeta Sundararaj, Tapestry of the Mind and Other Stories, Penguin Random House SEA, 2024. 272 pgs. Aneeta Sundararaj’s Tapestry of the…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Perhaps Misguided: Aneeta Sundararaj’s 𝑇𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑑” by Grace Najmulski](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/tapestry-of-the-mind-and-other-stories-aneeta-sundararaj.jpg?w=977)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Pang Laikwan, One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty, Stanford University Press, 2024. 276 pgs. As I finish writing this review, we are a few days away from…
![[REVIEW] “Quest for Genuineness: Pang Laikwan’s 𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑙𝑙” by Kaiqing Su](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/one-and-all_pang-laikwan.jpg?w=1000)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Stunning Memoir: Grace Loh Prasad’s The Translator’s Daughter” by Susan Blumberg-Kason Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon Translator’s Daughter. Grace Loh Prasad, The Translator’s Daughter, The Ohio State University Press, 2024. 272…
![[REVIEW] “Stunning Memoir: Grace Loh Prasad’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟’𝑠 𝐷𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑟” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/the-translators-daughter.jpg?w=880)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Wei Shujun (director), Only the River Flows, 2023. 101 mins. Wei Shujun’s Only the River Flows, an adaptation of Yu Hua’s novella Mistakes by the River set in 1995,…
![[REVIEW] “Such an Indelible Period Texture: Wei Shujun’s 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠” by Oliver Farry](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/only-the-river-flows-banner.jpg?w=512)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Qian Guo, Food Cultures of China: Recipes, Cultures and Issues, Bloomsbury, 2023. 272 pgs. The first thing that struck me about Qian Guo’s encyclopaedic undertaking in this book, was…
![[REVIEW] “An Encyclopaedic Undertaking: Qian Guo’s 𝐹𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Ceri Hwi-Li Holloway](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/food-cultures-of-china.jpg?w=994)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ralph Jennings, 50 Useful Tips on China, from a Guy Who ALMOST Got It, Earnshaw Books, 2024. 260 pgs. Ralph Jennings is a seasoned journalist who has spent the…
![[REVIEW] “Resonating with Anyone Who Travels Internationally: Ralph Jennings’s 50 𝑈𝑠𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑇𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/50-useful-tips-on-china-from-a-guy-who-almost-got-it.jpg?w=971)
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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 Hong Sang-soo. Hong Sang-soo (director), In Water, 2023. 61 min. Of the 31 features Hong Sang-soo has directed, you’d be hard pressed to find a…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Just that Little Bit Different: Hong Sang-soo’s 𝐼𝑛 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟” by Oliver Farry](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/in-water_hong-sang-soo.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Read Madeleine Slavick’s “The Yellow Chair” HERE. Madeleine Slavick, Town, The Cuba Press, 2024. 132 pgs. Imagine a poet and a photographer collaborating. What will they create? Town is such…
![[REVIEW] “Where Ripples Intersect: Madeleine Slavick’s Photopoetry Collection 𝑇𝑜𝑤𝑛” by Aqua Kaiyun Zheng](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/town_madeleine-slavick.jpg?w=1024)
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