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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Traveling today, leaving Hong Kong, on holiday. Smooth connection of minibus to airport bus. An early Sunday morning calm over the streets; but we can tell it’s going to be another scorcher, as the sun…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY When I lived in Beijing, it was as if calendars were printed deliberately with the day ghosted out. It ran straight from 3 June to 5 June, without blinking. Without passing Go or collecting 200…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY My shoulder aches a little from carrying a heavy bag while walking around this morning. My sister gave me three packs of instant mashed potatoes mix to give to our 婆婆 por por because our…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Memory From 4 June 2022 My father, now aged 55, used to work as a journalist in the local branch of a renowned state media in Jinan, the capital city of Shandong province, when he…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY **VI IV** Jackasses understood nothing ever, Fighting others undertaking random things hopeful. 19 or 89 years. Do you see a weep in the palindrome I stole from social media? We forgive teens, allowing two decades…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY On 21 May 1936, the novelist Mao Dun, along with some media colleagues, published a project they called “One Day in China [中国的一日]“. Depending on how you read the Chinese, it was intended to highlight…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Douglas Robinson, Gulliver’s Voyage to Phantomimia: A Transcreation, Zeta Books, 2020. 356 pgs. I imagine, that in the Great Deluge, 2 sworn Enemies, having clumb up onto the same…
![[REVIEW] “‘What is He Doing Playing Fantastickall Fictive Games with Realitie?’ Or, ‘A Pandemonium of Embraces’: Luxuriating in Douglas Robinson’s Transcreation of Volter Kilpi’s Unfinished 𝐺𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑉𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑃ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑎” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/gullivers-voyage-to-phantomimia-a-transcreation-1.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 The Seven Moons. Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Penguin India, 2022. This review is cross-published with Polity. A murdered journalist “awakens” in…
![[REVIEW] “Impunity, Violence, and the Politics of Representation: Shehan Karunatilaka’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑎𝑙𝑖 𝐴𝑙𝑚𝑒𝑖𝑑𝑎” by Harshana Rambukwella](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida_shehan-karunatilaka.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Malcolm Mejin, The Diary of a Rich Kid: Lost in Space, Penguin Random House SEA, 2023. 208 pgs. Malcolm Mejin’s The Diary of a Rich Kid: Lost in Space…
![[REVIEW] “Play Pretend: Malcolm Mejin’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑅𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝐾𝑖𝑑” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/diary-of-a-rich-kid-lost-in-space-1.jpg?w=407)
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📁 Click HERE to read the 54 selected “JUST ANOTHER DAY” entries Cha: An Asian Literary Journal invites one-off submissions of 300-500 word reflections written on 4 June 2023 from writers residing anywhere in the world, to be selected for…
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Header artwork by Annysa Ng 茶 First Impressionsclick for information 茶 Essays click for information 茶 En Routeclick for information 茶 XI XI—Can We Sayclick for information 茶 Write to Powerclick for information 茶 Auditory Cortexclick for information
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