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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 . “Daybreak” is inspired by The Vagina Monologues…
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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 Making Space.Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Where Else. ❀ Nicolette Wong (editor), Making Space: A Collection of Writing and Art, Cart Noodles Press, 2023. 163 pgs.❀…
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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 Nightmare Japan. Jay McRoy, Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema, Brill, 2008. 232 pgs. Something has been happening with Asian horror, and it took a…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Tomoko Hidaka, Salaryman Masculinity: Continuity and Change in Hegemonic Masculinity in Japan, Brill, 2010. 224 pgs. “Salaryman” is a word that’s uniquely Japanese, even if the concept is not.…
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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. The “-ish” in Owlish by Dorothy Tse suggests a suffixed impreciseness, a mutating…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ❀ Michihito Fujii (director), The Journalist, 2019. 113 min.❀ Michihito Fujii (director), A Family, 2021. 136 min.❀ Michihito Fujii (director), Village, 2023. 120 min. In these days of ever fewer choices…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony, Wave Books, 2020. 152 pgs. Reading Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony is an experience that plunges into a theatre of words, a theatre of…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton (directors), The Gate of Heavenly Peace, 1995. 180 min. i. There was one rule in our house when I was a child back when…


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