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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Liu Xinwu (author), Jeremy Tiang (translator), The Wedding Party, Amazon Crossing, 2021. 400 pgs. Time is a recurring theme in Liu Xinwu’s novel, The Wedding Party, recently translated from the Chinese into English…
![[REVIEW] “A Rich Tapestry for Tomorrow’s Beijingers: A Review of 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/theweddingparty-1.jpeg?w=700)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mang Ke (author), Lucas Klein, Huang Yibing and Jonathan Stalling (translators), October Dedications: Selected Poetry of Mang Ke, Zephyr Press, 2018. 152 pgs. This summer, all five floors of the National Art…
![[REVIEW] “Shockingly Direct and Heterodox: Mang Ke’s 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝐷𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠” by David Harrison Horton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/october-dedications_mang-ke.png?w=994)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Takashina Shūji (author), Matt Treyvaud (translator), Japanese Art in Perspective: East-West Encounters, Japan Library, 2021. 191 pgs. An amateur of Japanese art might have heard about ukiyo-e (or floating painting), as well…
![[REVIEW] “(Re)formation of Ideas: 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/japanese-art-in-perspective-east-west-encounters.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Artist and author Fiona Hawthorne grew up in Hong Kong and much of her work is informed by her childhood, including two new books out this year: Drawing on the Inside: Kowloon…
![[REVIEW] “Fiona Hawthorne and Kowloon Walled City” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/fiona-hawthorne.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tahi Saihate (author) and Kalau Almony (translator), Astral Season, Beastly Season, Honford Star, 2021. 144 pgs. Tahi Saihate’s Astral Season, Beastly Season, translated from the Japanese by Kalau Almony, is an odd, beautiful,…
![[REVIEW] “Roughness of Thought: A Review of Tahi Saihate’s 𝐴𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑆𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛” by Maks Sipowicz](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/astral-season-beastly-season-tahi-saihate-translated-by-kalau-almony.png?w=1024)
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We are very pleased to announce that we have nominated the following three poems for the 2021 Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry. Results will be announced in January 2022. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! “Flowers” by Ysabelle Cheung…
![[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cha’s 2021 Hawker Prize Nominations](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/hawker-prize-1.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Peng Hsiao-yen (editor), The Assassin: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s World of Tang China, Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 252 ppgs. Published in 2019 by the Hong Kong University Press, The Assassin: Hou…
![[REVIEW] “A Historically Cosmopolitan, Mixed Culture: 𝐻𝑜𝑢 𝐻𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑜-𝐻𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑛‘𝑠 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑇𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/the-assassin.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Liu Yichang.Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on John Minford. John Minford (general editor), Hong Kong Literature Series, The Chinese University Press, 2020. If the library was on fire…
![[REVIEW] “We Shall Have to Learn How to Live with Ghosts: A Review of John Minford’s 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by Douglas Kerr](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/hong-kong-literature-series-1.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nicholas Wong, Besiege Me, Noemi Press, 2021. 88 pgs. Besiege Me (Noemi Press, 2021) is a new poetry collection by the award-winning Anglophone Hong Kong poet Nicholas Wong. The title is apt…
![[REVIEW] “The Desire to Be Free and the Desire to Be Good: Nicholas Wong’s 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑔𝑒 𝑀𝑒” by Liam Blackford](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/besiege-me_nicholas-wong-1.jpeg?w=1024)
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Bleak House Books opened in February 2017, twenty years after the handover. In that year, Cha: An…
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