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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Gary Bettinson, The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance, 2014. 176 pgs. In the summer of 1994, I left a cinema in Tsim…
![[REVIEW] “Getting to the Heart of Wong Kar-wai: Gary Bettinson’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑎𝑟-𝑤𝑎𝑖” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/29477id_021_0005_29477id_215.webp?w=800)
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Translated from the Chinese original, also available below, by the author. Drawing by the author. The English translation is edited with help from David Morgan. “Watching the sea, all my worries vanish! I really love the sea.” He says this…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “A Sailor on the Ferry” by Jasmine Tong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/jasmine-tong_cha-1.jpg?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 Bloom. Xi Chuan (author), Lucas Klein (translator), Bloom & Other Poems, New Directions. 2022. 204 pgs. The bewitching voice that sears through this collection of…
![[REVIEW] “Xi Chuan’s Jagged Rhythms of Life: 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑚” by Nadine Willems](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/bloom-other-poems_lucas-klein_xi-chuan-1.png?w=972)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Tang Shu-wing (director), Bhagavad Gita, West Kowloon Cultural District, 2023. One of the most thought-provoking stage performances of the summer of 2023 is Tang Shu-wing’s Bhagavad Gita. Shown in…
![[REVIEW]“Detachment in the Cycle of Kali Yuga: A Review of Tang Shu-wing’s 𝐵ℎ𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑑 𝐺𝑖𝑡𝑎” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/bhagavad-gita-1.jpg?w=1024)
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Click HERE to read an essay by Agnes Chew and an excerpt from Eternal Summer of Homeland. 📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Agnes Chew, Eternal Summer of My Homeland, Epigram Books, 2023. 184 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Stragglers in Singapore: Agnes Chew’s 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑦 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/eternal-summer-of-my-homeland.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Mamoru Hosada (director), Wolf Children, 2012. 117 min. A story about a single mother trying to bring up two half-Japanese children on her own might naturally be of interest…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “𝑊𝑜𝑙𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 as a Statement on Parenthood and Modern Japan” by Jeremiah Dutch](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/wolf-children.jpg?w=1020)
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. What do feminisms mean to you? Whose feminisms? Do Chinese interpretations of feminisms accord with or contradict your own views? Perhaps you have not thought of these questions, especially the last one. This special collaboration between editors of Feminisms…
![[FEATURE] Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics: A 𝐶ℎ𝑎 Symposium](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/screenshot-2023-07-18-at-12.03.52-1.png?w=1024)
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❀ Main Page❀ Three Generations❀ Fan Yusu Decided to Live Off a Rich Man❀ Chinese Migrant Workers: Staging 1965’s Shanghai in 2017’s Picun❀ Chinese Queer Feminist Poetic Intimacies: A Translation Play❀ Daybreak . “Three Generations” is a response to Hui…
![[FEMINISMS] “Three Generations” by Tingting Hu](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/three-generations-tingting-hu-1.png?w=936)
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❀ Main Page❀ Three Generations❀ Fan Yusu Decided to Live Off a Rich Man❀ Chinese Migrant Workers: Staging 1965’s Shanghai in 2017’s Picun❀ Chinese Queer Feminist Poetic Intimacies: A Translation Play❀ Daybreak . This role-play game script is a creative…
![[FEMINISMS] “Chinese Migrant Workers: Staging 1965’s Shanghai in 2017’s Picun” by Yihan Lulu Wang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/yihang-lulu-wang.png?w=1024)
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❀ Main Page❀ Three Generations❀ Fan Yusu Decided to Live Off a Rich Man❀ Chinese Migrant Workers: Staging 1965’s Shanghai in 2017’s Picun❀ Chinese Queer Feminist Poetic Intimacies: A Translation Play❀ Daybreak . “Fan Yusu Decided to Live Off a…
![[FEMINISMS] “Fan Yusu Decided to Live Off a Rich Man” by Siyu Liu](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/01.jpg?w=640)
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