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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 Untold. Bae Suah (author), Deborah Smith (translator), Untold Night and Day, Jonathan Cape, 2020. 155 pgs. Where do…
![[REVIEW] “At the Edge of Impermanence: Bae Suah’s 𝑈𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑎𝑦” by Jonah Wu](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/untold-night-and-day.jpg?w=985)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “An Outrageously Ambitious Not-Quite Masterpiece: Yan Lianke’s Heart Sutra” by Kevin McGeary Yan Lianke (author), Carlos Rojas (translator), Heart Sutra, Glove Atlantic, 2023. 426 pgs. Just as the late…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “An Outrageously Ambitious Not-Quite Masterpiece: Yan Lianke’s 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑆𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑎” by Kevin McGeary](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/heart-sutra.jpg?w=995)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Apichatpong Weerasethakul (director), Mysterious Object at Noon, 2000. 83 min. “Enlisting locals to contribute improvised narration to a simple tale, Apichatpong charts the collective construction of the…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Simultaneities and Narratives in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 𝑀𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑂𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑁𝑜𝑜𝑛” by Richell Isaiah Flores](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/mysterious-objects-at-noon.jpg?w=1000)
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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 Perfect Days. Wim Wenders (director), Perfect Days, 2023. 123 min. Wim Wenders is not alone among Western filmmakers in having a fascination with…
![[REVIEW] “Clean Work: Wim Wenders’s 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝐷𝑎𝑦𝑠” by Oliver Farry](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/74409c07-88f6-44de-94a4-98f879833225.jpeg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Lawrence Kwan Chun Kan (director), In Broad Daylight 白日之下, 2023. 106 min. In Broad Daylight combines two major news stories that expose abuses against the vulnerable: the…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Nothing Under the Sun Is Truly New: Lawrence Kwan Chun Kan’s 𝐼𝑛 𝐵𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝐷𝑎𝑦𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡” by Tin Yuet Tam](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/in-broad-daylight_poster.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Nick Bradley, The Cat and the City, Atlantic Books, 2020. 304 pgs. Nick Bradley’s The Cat and the City is a patchwork of short stories and vignettes…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Troubling Facets of Life in Tokyo: Nick Bradley’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦” by Vicky Wong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/nick-bradley_the-cat-and-the-city.jpg?w=977)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Original and Surreal: Yun Ko-eun’s Table for One” by Jack Greenberg Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Table for One. Yun Ko-eun (author), Lizzie Buehler (translator), Table for One: Stories, Columbia University…
![[REVIEW] “Original and Surreal: Yun Ko-eun’s 𝑇𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑂𝑛𝑒” by Jack Greenberg](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/yun-ko-eun_table-for-one.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 Hiroko Oyamada. Hiroko Oyamada (author), David Boyd (translator), The Factory, New Directions, 2019. 128 pgs. The cover is what first…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Some Sort of Enclosed System: Hiroko Oyamada’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦” by Jane McBride](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/hiroko-oyamada_the-factory.jpg?w=931)
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Chinese Abacus 1814 One day, while wandering in the Mong Kok district of Kowloon, I bought an antique abacus. Known as one of the most densely populated areas on earth, Mong Kok is a busy shopping area with many open…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “The Abacus” by Jeff Beyl](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/20190329070933623.jpg?w=600)
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📁 Cha‘s SHŌGUN Feature There have been two adaptations of James Clavell’s 1975 novel Shōgun—a 1980 miniseries and a new one from this year, currently showing on Hulu and Disney+. This short essay focuses on the 1980 adaptation. Set in…
![[SHŌGUN] “Bold Directorial Choices: 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑛 (1980)” by e rathke](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/shogun-1980.jpg?w=1024)
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