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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…
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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…
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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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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “We Fight for Causes When the Odds Are Stacked Against Us: Togani (The Crucible)” by Jack Greenberg Gong Ji-young (author), Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton (translators), Togani, University of Hawai’i Press, 2023.…
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📁 Return to First Impressions📁 Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Isabel Sandoval (director), Lingua Franca, 2019. 90 min. In the gloaming hour, light leaves remnants of ambiguity everywhere. Nothing of consequence has asserted itself, at least not yet.…
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