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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.❀…
![[REVIEW] “I Will Always Return: Reading 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 and 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑙𝑠𝑒” by Vaughan Rapatahana](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/where-else-making-space.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 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…
![[REVIEW] “Enfleshing Horror: Jay McRoy’s 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛” by Junnan Chen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/nightmare-japan-1.jpg?w=1024)
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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…
![[REVIEW] “The Shadow of Hong Kong in Dorothy Tse’s 𝑂𝑤𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ” by Michelle Suen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/dorothy-tse-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.jpg?w=1024)
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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…
![[REVIEW] “Oblong Oblong: Mirror Words in Transit in Don Mee Choi’s 𝐷𝑀𝑍 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑦” by Pareys Liu Yiyi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/dmz_colony_cover_for_web-copy.jpg?w=498)
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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…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “On a Yellow Sticker: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑃𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑒” by J. Chen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/gate-of-heavenly-peace.jpeg?w=366)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Lisa See, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, Scribner, 2023. 368 pgs. A thousand years in the past, a thousand years in the future—no matter where you live or how…
![[REVIEW] “Vibrant Setting of Ancient China: Lisa See’s 𝐿𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑇𝑎𝑛’𝑠 𝐶𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛” by Emma Pei Yin](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/lisa-see_lady-tans-circle-of-women-copy.jpg?w=664)
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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 Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere. Jennifer Wong, Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry, Bloomsbury, 2023. When Jennifer…
![[REVIEW] “Poetry of the Nomads: Jennifer Wong’s 𝐼𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑦” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/jennifer-wong-cha-identity-home-and-writing-elsewhere.png?w=1024)
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