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📁 Return to First Impressions📁 Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Tim Tim Cheng, Tapping at Glass, Verve Poetry Press, 2023. 44 pgs. History, of course, repeats itself. What was termed “The Lost Generation” by Gertrude Stein, to…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Outstanding Translations of a Singular Poet: Yam Gong’s Moving a Stone” by Mary King Bradley and Matthew Cheng Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon Moving a Stone. Yam Gong (author), James Shea…
![[REVIEW] “Outstanding Translations of a Singular Poet: Yam Gong’s 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒” by Mary King Bradley and Matthew Cheng](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/moving-a-stone-copy.jpg?w=896)
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📁 Return to First Impressions📁 Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Shirley Geok-lin Lim, In Praise of Limes, Sungold Editions, 2022. 106 pgs. In this review of Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s In Praise of Limes, I attempt a process which…
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📁 Return to First Impressions📁 Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Rin Ishigaki (author), Janine Beichman (translator), and Paul Rossiter (editor), This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems, with an introduction by Janine Beichman, Isobar Press, 2022. 118 pgs. When…
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TH: With great pleasure we are presenting Matt Turner’s preface to his translation of Lu Xun’s Weeds 野草, published by Seaweed Salad Editions in 2019. The book also includes an introduction by Nick Admussen and woodblock print artwork by Monika…
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After Death by Lu Xun, translated from the Chinese into English by Matt Turner I dreamt I was dead on the road. Where I was, how I arrived there, how I died, I understood none of it. In short, by…
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Beggars by Lu Xun, translated from the Chinese into English by Matt Turner I’m walking alongside a high, peeling wall, stamping loose dust. Several others walk alone. A breeze comes up, and tree branches above the wall, with still-unwithered leaves,…
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Trembling Decay by Lu Xun, translated from the Chinese into English by Matt Turner I dreamt I was dreaming. I didn’t know where I was, before my eyes, late night, the confining interior of a small hut—and I could also…
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TH: We are pleased to present an exclusive essay by Eileen J. Cheng entitled “Lu Xun and Radical Art” and her English translation of Lu Xun’s “Tombstone Inscriptions” 墓碣文, included in Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk. “Tombstone Inscriptions”…
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📁 XI XI—CAN WE SAY: Entries 📁 Xi Xi and Jennifer Feeley
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