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Click HERE to read Michael O’Sullivan’s reflection on writing Lockdown Lovers, written exclusively for Cha, and an excerpt from the novel. πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Lockdown Lovers. Michael O’Sullivan, Lockdown…
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{Written by Frances An, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Yeng Pway Ngon (author), Jeremy Tiang (translator), Costume, Balestier Press, 2020. 269 pgs. βLike so many of his characters, he [Yeng Pway Ngon] was…
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Download Lucas Klein’s introduction to Duo Duo’sWords as Grain HERE. “How to make sense of Duo Duoβs poetry is the overarching question it poses, at the root of its political significance as well as its literary interest. In the words…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Layered Spaces: A Review of Chi Ta-wei’sΒ The Membranes” by Serena De Marchi Chi Ta-wei (author), Ari Larissa Heinrich (translator),Β The Membranes, Columbia University Press, 2021. 168 pgs. Chi Ta-weiβs classic of…
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ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Lockdown Lovers. TH: We are pleased to present an exclusive essay by Michael O’Sullivan on his new book, Lockdown Lovers (Penguin Random House, 2021), a five-part love story set in lockdown conditions in Asia and Europe.…
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TH: All the poems in Ho Fuk Yan’s latest poetry collection, Love in the Time of the Coronavirus ζε¨ηη«ζ, were written in response to the pandemic as experienced, observed, interpreted, and reimagined by the poet in 2020. The poems are…
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{Written by Wong Yang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Daryl Lim Wei Jie, A Book of Changes, Math Paper Press, 2016. 65 pgs. Few collections coming out of Singapore literatureβs βnew waveβ of…
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Stephen Griffiths, The Kowloon English Club, Blacksmith Books, 2021. 292 pgs. Hong Kong in 1996 was a special time. The Handover was a…
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{Written by Jennifer Anne Eagleton, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Aftershock. Holmes Chan (editor), Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong, Small Tune Press, 2020. 93 pgs. Aftershocks are small…
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{Written by Frances An, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Rosemary Roberts and Li Li (editors), The Making and Remaking of Chinaβs Red Classics: Politics, Aesthetics, and Mass Culture, Hong Kong University…
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