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    CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS: First Impressions, Essays, En Route, Xi Xiβ€”Can We Say, Write to Power, and Auditory Cortex

    Header artwork by Annysa Ng 茢 First Impressionsclick for information 茢 Essays click for information 茢 En Routeclick for information 茢 XI XIβ€”Can We Sayclick for information 茢 Write to Powerclick for information 茢 Auditory Cortexclick for information

  • [REVIEW] β€œToying With Lost Time: A Review of Three Poetry Collections from Landmark Books” by Cheng Tim Tim

    {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Against the backdrop of ongoing wars and climate crisis, I found myself reading Daryl Lim Wei Jie’s Anything but Human, Gwee Li Sui’s This Floating World, and Heng Siok Tian’s Grandma’s Attic,…

    Oct 20, 2022
    [REVIEW] β€œToying With Lost Time: A Review of Three Poetry Collections from Landmark Books” by Cheng Tim Tim

  • [EXCLUSIVE] “A Jellyfish Explains Life” by David Clarke

    Photographs of jellyfish are by the author.Β Β  Of course we don’t keep recordsβ€”why would we?β€”but my understanding is that we have been around for at least 500 million years, and maybe 700 million. I don’t believe there are any other…

    Oct 18, 2022
    [EXCLUSIVE] “A Jellyfish Explains Life” by David Clarke

  • [REVIEW] “Giving a Voice to Those With None: Karen Ma’s πΆβ„Žπ‘–π‘›π‘Ž’𝑠 π‘€π‘–π‘™π‘™π‘’π‘›π‘›π‘–π‘Žπ‘™ π·π‘–π‘”π‘–π‘‘π‘Žπ‘™ πΊπ‘’π‘›π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘œπ‘›” by X. H. Collins

    {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Karen Ma. China’s Millennial Digital Generation: Conversations with Balinghou (Post-1980s) Indie Filmmakers, Long River Press, 2022. 260 pgs. On 2 January 1997, I boarded a plane in Shanghai heading to Chicago. The…

    Oct 12, 2022
    [REVIEW] “Giving a Voice to Those With None: Karen Ma’s πΆβ„Žπ‘–π‘›π‘Ž’𝑠 π‘€π‘–π‘™π‘™π‘’π‘›π‘›π‘–π‘Žπ‘™ π·π‘–π‘”π‘–π‘‘π‘Žπ‘™ πΊπ‘’π‘›π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘œπ‘›” by X. H. Collins

  • [REVIEW] β€œWeirdness Unfulfilled: Choi Jin-young’s π‘‡π‘œ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘Šπ‘Žπ‘Ÿπ‘š π»π‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘–π‘§π‘œπ‘›β€ by Michael Tsang

    {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Choi Jin-young (author), Soje (translator). To the Warm Horizon, Honford Star, 2021. 172 pgs. Originally published in 2017, To the Warm Horizon is perhaps best seen as a curious example of a…

    Sep 20, 2022
    [REVIEW] β€œWeirdness Unfulfilled: Choi Jin-young’s π‘‡π‘œ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘Šπ‘Žπ‘Ÿπ‘š π»π‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘–π‘§π‘œπ‘›β€ by Michael Tsang

  • [REVIEW] “Quintessential Singlit? Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π‘ƒπ‘’π‘›π‘˜β„Žπ‘Žπ‘€π‘Žπ‘™π‘Ž π‘Žπ‘›π‘‘ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘ƒπ‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘ π‘‘π‘–π‘‘π‘’π‘‘π‘’β€ by Michael Tsang

    {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wesley Leon Aroozoo. The Punkhawala and the Prostitute, Epigram, 2021. 352 pgs. A finalist of Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2021, Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s The Punkhawala and the Prostitute tells the tale of…

    Sep 20, 2022
    [REVIEW] “Quintessential Singlit? Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π‘ƒπ‘’π‘›π‘˜β„Žπ‘Žπ‘€π‘Žπ‘™π‘Ž π‘Žπ‘›π‘‘ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘ƒπ‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘ π‘‘π‘–π‘‘π‘’π‘‘π‘’β€ by Michael Tsang

  • [REVIEW] β€œπ΄π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘ π‘’ 𝑂𝑒𝑑 π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ πΏπ‘œπ‘π‘˜: On Resistance, Connection, and Enchantment” by Sharyn Phu

    {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nabina Das (translator), Alam Khorshed (curator), Arise out of the Lock: 50 Bangladeshi Women Poets in English, Balestier Press, 2022. 176 pgs. Arise Out of the Lock is a poetry collection by…

    Sep 16, 2022
    [REVIEW] β€œπ΄π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘ π‘’ 𝑂𝑒𝑑 π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ πΏπ‘œπ‘π‘˜: On Resistance, Connection, and Enchantment” by Sharyn Phu

  • [REVIEW] “πΆβ„Žπ‘–π‘›π‘’π‘ π‘’ π‘ƒπ‘œπ‘’π‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘¦ π‘Žπ‘›π‘‘ π‘‡π‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘›π‘ π‘™π‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘œπ‘›: A Multi-Angled Overview of What Happens When Worlds Collide” by Cyril Camus

    {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Maghiel van Crevel and Lucas Klein, eds., Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs, Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 356 pgs. In a previous article about how late 20th/early 21st-century British and American…

    Sep 15, 2022
    [REVIEW] “πΆβ„Žπ‘–π‘›π‘’π‘ π‘’ π‘ƒπ‘œπ‘’π‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘¦ π‘Žπ‘›π‘‘ π‘‡π‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘›π‘ π‘™π‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘œπ‘›: A Multi-Angled Overview of What Happens When Worlds Collide” by Cyril Camus

  • [EXCLUSIVE] “Q & A” by Miho Kinnas and E. Ethelbert Miller

    Reflections on “Q & A” E. Ethelbert Miller: The title is actually what occurs in the poem. Often Miho and I will exchange lines and stanzas as we construct our poems. In this poem I felt it was more like…

    Sep 14, 2022
    [EXCLUSIVE] “Q & A” by Miho Kinnas and E. Ethelbert Miller

  • [REVIEW] “A Psychoanalytical Auto-fictional Biography of a City: Perhat Tursun’s π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π΅π‘Žπ‘π‘˜π‘ π‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘’π‘‘π‘ ” by Serena De Marchi

    {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Perhat Tursun (author), Darren Byler and Anonymous (translators), The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang, Columbia University Press, 2022. 168 pgs. A man leaves an office in ÜrΓΌmqi, and starts walking. The sun…

    Sep 11, 2022
    [REVIEW] “A Psychoanalytical Auto-fictional Biography of a City: Perhat Tursun’s π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π΅π‘Žπ‘π‘˜π‘ π‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘’π‘‘π‘ ” by Serena De Marchi

  • [REVIEW] “Beyond Birth, Blood, and Soil: Reading Louisa Lim’s 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐢𝑖𝑑𝑦” by Emma Zhang

    πŸ“Β RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπŸ“Β RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Indelible City. Louisa Lim, Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, Text Publishing Melbourne Australia, 2022. 306 pgs. Louisa Lim’s 2022 book Indelible City:…

    Sep 2, 2022
    [REVIEW] “Beyond Birth, Blood, and Soil: Reading Louisa Lim’s 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐢𝑖𝑑𝑦” by Emma Zhang
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