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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 Bright Fear. Mary Jean Chan, Bright Fear, Faber & Faber, 2023. 72 pgs. I first encountered Mary Jean Chan’s work in the bookstore I used to…
![[REVIEW] “Vibrant Being in Mary Jean Chan’s 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐹𝑒𝑎𝑟” by Kika W. L. Van Robay](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/bright-fear-mary-jean-chan.png?w=891)
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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 Owlish. Dorothy Tse (author), Natascha Bruce (translator), Owlish, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023. 224 pgs. Dorothy Tse’s Owlish, translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce, is a novel…
![[REVIEW] “All the Subtle References: Dorothy Tse’s 𝑂𝑤𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/dorothy-tse-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.jpg?w=1024)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “The Liminality of Being: Anthony Chen’s The Breaking Ice” by Jonathan Chan Anthony Chen (director), The Breaking Ice, 2023. 97 min. Arresting visuals, an immersive soundtrack, and interesting ideas do…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “The Liminality of Being: Anthony Chen’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐼𝑐𝑒” by Jonathan Chan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/breaking-the-ice_cha-banner.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. I have had this feeling of being quiet and alone recently, since graduating from university, with the pressure…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Reading on Slow Quiet Days” by Joefel Bolo](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/joefel-bolo_cha.png?w=1024)
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TH: We are pleased to present Chris Song’s English translation of Mary Wong’s short story “Christmas Shopping” 聖誕購物, which is collected in Surviving Central 中環人. The story won the 25th Secondary School Students’ Best Ten Books Award. Ⓖ🅁Ⓞ🅄Ⓝ🄳……🄵Ⓛ🄾Ⓞ🅁 “It’s better…
![[TRANSLATION] “Christmas Shopping” BY MARY WONG, Translated by Chris Song](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/like.png?w=873)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Bae Myung-hoon (author), Sung Ryu (translator), Tower, Honford Star, 2021. 262 pgs. In Tower, Bae Myung-Hoon unveils a kaleidoscope of vignettes anchored around the central pillar of the fictional…
![[REVIEW] “More Social-science than Fiction: Bae Myung-hoon’s 𝑇𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟” by Lucy Hamilton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/flatmock-uptowerback.png?w=780)
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TH: In this essay, Matt Turner meditates on a couple of recent concerts he attended at Dream House and Task, both in New York. In late July this year, I attended a performance at Dream House in lower Manhattan; I…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “A Space for ‘Music'” by Matt Turner](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/dh2023_1.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Dung Kai-cheung (author), Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson (translators), A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On, Columbia University Press, 2022. 218 pgs. First published in…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Aesthetics of Obsolescence: Dung Kai-cheung’s 𝐴 𝐶𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑓𝑓 𝑎𝑠 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑂𝑛” by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/a-catalog-of-such-stuff-as-dreams-are-made-on_cha-banner.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Wenying Xu, Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature, University of Hawai’i Press, 2007. 208 pgs. Food has long occupied an important space in art, whether in literature,…
![[REVIEW] “Formidable Exploration of the Symbolism of Food in Literature—Wenying Xu’s 𝐸𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐼𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠: 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒” by Janet Hui Ching Tay](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/reading-identities-cha.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Mimi Okabe, Manga, Murder, and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. 216 pgs. Has any national psyche (if such a thing even exists) ever…
![[REVIEW] “Walking on Thin Ice—Mimi Okabe’s 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑎, 𝑀𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑦: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑦 𝐷𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛’𝑠 𝐿𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” by Liam Beale](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/screenshot-2023-11-29-at-13.52.52.png?w=1024)
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