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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Penguin Random House, 2003. 356 pgs. There was a time when I was desperate for a reaffirmation of literature’s…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Where Are the Other Voices We Want to Hear? Reading 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎 𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑒ℎ𝑟𝑎𝑛” by Garfield Chow](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/reading-lolita-in-tehran-1.jpeg?w=675)
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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. Defying our expectations of time and space, Dorothy…
![[REVIEW] “Hope Is Still Something With Feathers: Dorothy Tse’s 𝑂𝑤𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ” by Jennifer Wong](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 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. Jennifer…
![[REVIEW] “A Historical Document: Jennifer Wong’s 𝐼𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑦” by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/jennifer-wong-cha-identity-home-and-writing-elsewhere.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Brian Sze-hang Kwok, Fading Neon Lights: An Archive of Hong Kong’s Visual Culture, City University of Hong Kong Press, 2023. 202 pgs. Brian Sze-hang Kwok may not know the…
![[REVIEW] “Pangs of Things That Have Passed—Brian Sze-hang Kwok’s 𝐹𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑁𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠: 𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔’𝑠 𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒” by Lian-Hee Wee](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/29.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors, Canongate, 2023. 320 pgs. Third novels can be tricky. The second has to prove the first was not a fluke. Something more…
![[REVIEW] “Some Private Morsel of Your Own: Tan Twan Eng’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑠” by Douglas Kerr](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/the-house-of-doors-1.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ozawa Minoru (author), Janine Beichman (translator), Well-Versed: Exploring Modern Japanese Haiku, with photography by Maeda Shinzō and Akira, Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2021. 375 pgs. Haiku has…
![[REVIEW] “Beautifully Produced—Ozawa Minoru’s 𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙-𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑: 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑖𝑘𝑢” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/well-versed.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 Chungking Express. Wong Kar-wai (director), Chungking Express, 1994. 92 min. Whenever I think of Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express I hear California Dreamin’ by The Mamas…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Two Stories in One: Wong Kar-wai’s 𝐶ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠” by e rathke](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/chungking-express.jpg?w=1000)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Chan Tze-Woon (director), Blue Island, 2022. 97 min. A history student, I linger in the Hong Kong Museum of History’s condensed Hong Kong Story exhibition: one room per millennium,…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “A Hong Kong History in Chan Tze-Woon’s 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝐼𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑” by Michelle Suen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/blue-island.png?w=1024)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Beijing Bubbles: Andrew Field’s Rocking China” by Matt Turner Andrew Field, Rocking China: Rock Music Scenes in Beijing, Shanghai & Beyond, Earnshaw Books, 2023. 212 pgs. You can listen…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Beijing Bubbles: Andrew Field’s 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Matt Turner](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/rocking-china-copy.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yudho Aditya (director), Pria, 2017. 22 min. In a world where heterosexuality is still considered the norm, there remain many deterrents for LGBT people from embracing their queerness. And,…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Traditionalist Material Symbols in Yudho Aditya’s 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑎” by Upasana Dandona](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pria-fi.jpg?w=600)
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