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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Carlos Rojas (special issue editor), Method as Method, V16: N2 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Duke University Press, 2019. According to a quick etymological internet search, the term “method” originates in the…
![[REVIEW] “Review as Method: A Review of Method as Method” by Gareth Paul Breen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/prism_method-as-method.png?w=1024)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE by Ko Ko Thett A tongue that demands ‘Water! Water! Water!’ is chapped from tonguing the thick lips of a totalitarian ashtray. You may find life in a bombshell. There is no water in ash. They redress their national internal bleeding…
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} C.T. Au, The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan, Lexington Books, 2020. 202 pgs. C.T. Au’s The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung…
![[REVIEW] “Dissected by Theory: A Review of C.T. Au’s The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/the-hong-kong-modernism-of-leung-ping-kwan_review.png?w=1024)
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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.} Yū Miri (author) and Morgan Giles (translator), Tokyo Ueno Station, Tilted Axis Press, 2019 (first published in 2014). 197 pgs. Kazu Mori is…
![[REVIEW] “Critical Social Commentary of Modern Japan: A Review of Yū Miri’s 𝑇𝑜𝑘𝑦𝑜 𝑈𝑒𝑛𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tokyouenostation-2.jpg?w=762)
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晚祷多多 犹如播种者对着收割者一对父母，分得开开地垂首，看一个男孩从地底下看他们那被借予生者的光就又被挪远了一点 一片砍过的禾地便把弯腰者的风景拿进晚祷——黑夜的粮食当铲上的落日对着男孩眼中的落日，去集中这苦——那整块的光芒 当葬礼，铲形的波浪落日平静的果实，要求我们重新接受麦束的约束…… EVENSONGby Duo Duo, translated into English by Lucas Klein as is the sower to the reapera pair of parents separatedlyhang their heads, to see a boylooking at them from below the groundthe light granted to the livingis…
![[FEATURE] Two New Translations by Lucas Klein: Duo Duo and Bian Zhlin](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/duo-duo-and-bian-zhlin.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Elaine Chiew, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Chia Joo Ming (Author), Sim Wai Chew (Translator), Exile or Pursuit, Balestier Press, 2019. 306 pgs. Exile or Pursuit employs the genre…
![[REVIEW] “Bildungsroman of a Singaporean Ordinary Joe: A Review of Chia Joo Ming’s 𝐸𝑥𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡” by Elaine Chiew](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/exile-or-pursuit.jpg?w=1024)
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斷章卞之琳 你站在橋上看風景，看風景的人在樓上看你。明月裝飾了你的窗子，你裝飾了別人的夢。 FRAGMENTby Bian Zhilin, translated into English by Lucas Klein You stand on the bridge overlooking the landscape,and upstairs someone looking at the landscape looks at you. The moon adorns your window,and you adorn somebody’s dream. 在哈爾蓋仰望星空西川 有一種神秘你無法駕馭你只能充當旁觀者的角色聽憑那神秘的力量從 遙遠的地方發出信號射出光來，穿透你的心像今夜，在哈爾蓋在這個遠離城市的荒涼的地方，在這青藏高原上的一個蠶…
![[FEATURE] Two New Translations by Lucas Klein: Bian Zhilin and Xi Chuan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/bian-zhilin-and-xi-chuan.png?w=1024)
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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.} Leslie Shimotakahara, Red Oblivion, Dundurn Press, 2019. 304 pgs. Jill Lau and her sister Celeste rush to visit their elderly father after…
![[REVIEW] “A Stirring Tribute to Hong Kong: A Review of Leslie Shimotakahara’s Red Oblivion” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/red-obivion_shimotakahara.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Marc de Faoite, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (author) and Arunava Sinha (translator), The Yogini, Tilted Axis Press, 2019. 208 pgs. The Yogini is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay’s third…
![[REVIEW] “Parallel and Intertwining Interpretations: Reviewing Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑖” by Marc de Faoite](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/the-yogini.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Carlos Rojas (special issue editor), Method as Method, V16: N2 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Duke University Press, 2019. Method here is used as a “prism” to tease out our underlying assumptions…
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