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EDITORIAL / AUGUST 2008 (ISSUE 4) OTHER EDITORIALS [See contributors’ photographs taken when they were young here.] The cover of this issue features two family photos, one taken in Hong Kong, one in mainland China. There is a striking formality…
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Editorial / May 2008 (Issue 3) OTHER EDITORIALS In the first major treatise on the subject of tea Chajing (The Classic of Tea) (8th century), Lu Yu categorized the different varieties of the drink by name: When tea has a sweet flavour, it…
![[ARCHIVE] “πΆβπ: Some Thoughts on a Name” by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Jeff Zroback](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cha-an-asian-literary-journal-issue-3.png?w=1024)
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Editorial / November 2007 (Issue 1) OTHER EDITORIALS Why start an internet journal? Why add another voice to the cluttered and overexposed world of creative writing online? We believe that these are questions that must be considered by anyone who…
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πRETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Strange Beasts. Yan Ge (author) and Jeremy Tiang (translator), Strange Beasts of China, Tilted Axis Press, 2020. 314 pgs. My previous Cha review of a Chinese…
![[REVIEW] βππ‘πππππ π΅πππ π‘π ππ πΆβπππ: Harnessing πβπππ’ππ and Magic Realism to Satirise Otheringβ by Cyril Camus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/strangebeastsofchinav3ccorrected_v3c-copy.jpg?w=668)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Philip Bowring. The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, Bloomsbury, 2022. 272 pgs. The thing with a jigsaw puzzle is it is a mental pursuit of completion; that somebody shuffles…
![[REVIEW] βSifting Through The Rubble: Reading Philip Bowringβs πβπ ππππππ ππ ππππππ πβπππππππππ β by Jose Santos P. Ardivilla](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/the-making-of-the-modern-philippines-1.jpeg?w=568)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] Being Born, Getting Old, Falling Sick, and Dyingby Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong KongβWednesday 26 August 2020 }}} Twenty-four Covid new cases confirmed today in Hong Kong. The aircon…
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A Son of Hanoi . Kenneth on “A Son of Hanoi”: It is worth considering the idea of the 1.5 generation and how a few years of schooling in an imperialist country can be so strongly internalised. What does it…
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] Workers’ Expression of Romanceby Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong KongβMonday 24 August 2020 }}} Today there were nine confirmed Covid cases in Hong Kong. Itβs the first time in…
![[EXCLUSIVE] βWorkers’ Expression of Romanceβ (Monday 24 August 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/star-street_wing-fung-street.png?w=1024)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] Every Lovely Little Thingby Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong KongβTuesday 25 August 2020 }}} Nineteen confirmed Covid cases today in Hong Kong. The lunchtime news reported that pandemic measures…
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] That Moment Balances Fiction and Realityby Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong KongβFriday 28 August 2020 }}} Twenty-one confirmed Covid cases in Hong Kong today. Last night the rain was unforgiving.…
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