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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “A Historically Cosmopolitan, Mixed Culture: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s World of Tang China” by Jeff Tompkins Peng Hsiao-yen (editor), The Assassin: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s World of Tang China, Hong Kong University Press, 2019.…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nicholas Wong, Besiege Me, Noemi Press, 2021. 88 pgs. Besiege Me (Noemi Press, 2021) is a new poetry collection by the award-winning Anglophone Hong Kong poet Nicholas Wong. The title is apt…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Bleak House Books opened in February 2017, twenty years after the handover. In that year, Cha: An…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Michael O’Sullivan read an excerpt from Bleak House by Charles Dickens and surprised and delighted the audience…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Chris Song read poems by e.e. cummings, Anna Akhmatova, and Gavin Ewart. ANYONE LIVED IN A PRETTY…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Jason S Polley read two poems by Wallace Stevens—both are available in the public domain. PHASES I.There’s…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Yi-Fu Tuan’sSpace and Place:The Perspective of Experience an excerpt [Place is security, space is freedom.] People tend to…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Oliver Farry read from Robert Fagles’s translation of Homer’s Iliad, a passage relating the funeral of Patroclus…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’sLittle Prince, Chapter 21 L E S S O N It was then that the…


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