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๐ Return to First Impressions๐ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on The Sorrows of Others. Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others, A Public Space, 2023. 160 pgs. Empathy. Itโs a simple word and one…
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๐ Return to First Impressions๐ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Bแบฃo Ninh (author), Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran (translators and editors), Hร Nแปi at Midnight: Stories, with a foreword by Nguyแป n Vฤn Thuแบฅn, Texas Tech University…
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๐ Return to First Impressions๐ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Tim Tim Cheng, Tapping at Glass, Verve Poetry Press, 2023. 44 pgs. History, of course, repeats itself. What was termed โThe Lost Generationโ by Gertrude Stein, to…
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Outstanding Translations of a Singular Poet: Yam Gong’s Moving a Stone” by Mary King Bradley and Matthew Cheng Yam Gong (author), James Shea and Dorothy Tse (translators), Moving a Stone,…
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๐ Return to First Impressions๐ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Shirley Geok-lin Lim, In Praise of Limes, Sungold Editions, 2022. 106 pgs. In this review of Shirley Geok-lin Limโs In Praise of Limes, I attempt a process which…
![[REVIEW] “Limโs Limes Call To Mindโฆ” by Dean A. F. Gui](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/praise-of-limes.png?w=1024)
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๐ Return to First Impressions๐ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Rin Ishigaki (author), Janine Beichman (translator), and Paul Rossiter (editor), This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems, with an introduction by Janine Beichman, Isobar Press, 2022. 118 pgs. When…
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TH: With great pleasure we are presenting Matt Turner’s preface to his translation of Lu Xun’s Weeds ้่, published by Seaweed Salad Editions in 2019. The book also includes an introduction by Nick Admussen and woodblock print artwork by Monika…
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After Death by Lu Xun, translated from the Chinese into English by Matt Turner I dreamt I was dead on the road. Where I was, how I arrived there, how I died, I understood none of it. In short, by…
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Beggars by Lu Xun, translated from the Chinese into English by Matt Turner Iโm walking alongside a high, peeling wall, stamping loose dust. Several others walk alone. A breeze comes up, and tree branches above the wall, with still-unwithered leaves,…
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Trembling Decay by Lu Xun, translated from the Chinese into English by Matt Turner I dreamt I was dreaming. I didnโt know where I was, before my eyes, late night, the confining interior of a small hutโand I could also…
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