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[ESSAY] “Shaped by Hong Kong, Sharpened by Wudang: Gigi Chang’s Translation Practice” by Debra Liu For those of us influenced by the legendary Jin Yong (Louis Cha) Legends of the Condor Heroes series, yet unable to read lengthy works in…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Of Mirth-merchants and Humour Literature: Ankit Raj Ojha’s The Bare Bones Book of Humour” by Pradip Mondal Ankit Raj Ojha (editor), The Bare Bones Book of Humour, Bare Bones…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Freedom from Time and Space: On James Shea’s Last Day of My Face” by Jonathan Han Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Last Day of My Face. James Shea, The Last Day…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Cultivating the Infinite: The Art and Spiritual Vision of Zhao Hai Tien” by Jennifer Eagleton Zhao Hai Tien, Cultivation: The Art of Zhao Hai Tien, University of Hong Kong Press,…
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All entries on SUNDANCE 2026 [SUNDANCE 2026] “The Pleasure Principal: A Conversation on Wregas Bhanuteja’s Levitating” by Nirris Nagendrarajah & Wregas Bhanuteja Wregas Bhanuteja (director), Levitating, 2026. 119 min. INTRODUCTION Nirris Nagendrarajah Levitating, the third feature by the Indonesian filmmaker…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Lai Wen’s Tiananmen Square: A Coming-of-Age Dramedy Culminating in a Historic Massacre” by Kevin McGeary Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square: A Novel, Spiegel & Grau, 2024. 528 pgs. “In China,…
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Call for abstractsCha: An Asian Literary Journal Workshop Hong Kong & Ireland:Interwoven Histories, Shared Languages, & Connected Futures Format: Virtual Dates of workshop: TO BE CONFIRMED (July 2026) Workshop focus: This symposium invites proposals that place Hong Kong and Ireland…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS Editor’s note: Aastha Uprety’s essay reads Jia Zhangke’s Still Life and Razan AlSalah’s A Stone’s Throw as twin elegies of engineered upheaval, where dams and pipelines reorder earth and memory. Through…
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[REVIEW] “𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑎 and the Ethics of Resistance: Premchand’s Vision of Communal Harmony” by Fathima M
茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Karbala and the Ethics of Resistance: Premchand’s Vision of Communal Harmony” by Fathima M Premchand (author), Haris Qadeer and Sami Rafiq (translators), Karbala, Sahitya Akademi, 2023. 232 pgs. The tragedy…
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Editor’s note: Anna Nguyen’s essay “A Dead Language” turns on an offhand slight, “No one speaks Vietnamese,” and worries it into grief, form, and theory. Between a father’s aphasic silence and a mother’s nightly monologues, Vietnamese persists. English, institutional and…
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