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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Giving a Voice to Those With None: Karen Ma’s China’s Millennial Digital Generation” by X. H. Collins Karen Ma. China’s Millennial Digital Generation: Conversations with Balinghou (Post-1980s) Indie Filmmakers, Long…
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{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…
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{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…
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{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…
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{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…
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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…
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{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 Ürümqi, and starts walking. The sun…
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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 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:…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Monika Gaenssbauer and Nicholas Olczak (editors). Of Forests and Humans: Hong Kong Contemporary Short Fiction. Edition Cathay, vol. 74, Bochum, Projekt Verlag, 2019. 126 pgs. In Of Forests and Humans, Monika Gaenssbauer…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Phoebe Tsang, Setting Fire to Water. Thistledown Press, 2022. 220 pgs. Phoebe Tsang’s short story collection Setting Fire to Water is a delightful debut that transforms seemingly prosaic lives and events into…


![[ESSAY] “Giving a Voice to Those With None: Karen Ma’s 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎’𝑠 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” by X. H. Collins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/chinas-millennial-digital-generation-conversations-with-balinghou-post-1980s-indie-filmmakers-1.png?w=1024)
![[REVIEW] “Weirdness Unfulfilled: Choi Jin-young’s 𝑇𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝐻𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑜𝑛” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/warm-horizon.png?w=1024)
![[REVIEW] “Quintessential Singlit? Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑢𝑛𝑘ℎ𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/wesley-leon-aroozoos-the-punkhawala-and-the-prostitute.png?w=1024)
![[REVIEW] “𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑂𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑐𝑘: On Resistance, Connection, and Enchantment” by Sharyn Phu](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/arise-out-of-the-lock.png?w=1024)
![[REVIEW] “𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛: A Multi-Angled Overview of What Happens When Worlds Collide” by Cyril Camus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/chinese-poetry-and-translation-lucas-klein-.png?w=1024)
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Q & A” by Miho Kinnas and E. Ethelbert Miller](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/frederick-j.-brown.png?w=1024)
![[REVIEW] “A Psychoanalytical Auto-fictional Biography of a City: Perhat Tursun’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠” by Serena De Marchi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/the-backstreets-perhat-tursun.png?w=1024)
![[REVIEW] “Beyond Birth, Blood, and Soil: Reading Louisa Lim’s 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/indelible-city-louisa-lim-1.jpg?w=1024)
![[REVIEW] “Stories Grow in Hong Kong: A Review of 𝑂𝑓 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠” by Astrid Møller-Olsen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/of-forests-and-humans-1.jpg?w=519)
![[REVIEW] “Dream-like Reality: Phoebe Tsang’s 𝑆𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟” by Aerith Au](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/fire-to-water_phoebe-tsang.png?w=1024)