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πRETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Strange Beasts. Yan Ge (author) and Jeremy Tiang (translator), Strange Beasts of China, Tilted Axis Press, 2020. 314 pgs. Each of the stories in Yan Geβs…
![[REVIEW] “The Unconcealed Rebellion, Cynicism, Bravery and Romanticism of Being Painfully Young: Yan Ge’s ππ‘πππππ π΅πππ π‘π ππ πΆβπππ” by Jacqueline Leung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/strange-beasts-of-china.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Matthew Schneider-Mayerson (editor), Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environment Perspectives on Life in Singapore, Ethos Books, 2020. 276 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Greenwashed: A Review of πΈππ‘πππ πΆβππππ πΆπππ ππ π‘βπ π΄ππ‘βππππππππ” by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/eating-chilli-crab-in-the-anthropocene-environment-perspectives-on-life-in-singapore-1.png?w=1024)
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Β {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. Twenty years ago, as a graduate student newly arrived in the…
![[REVIEW] “Theories, Methods, Objects, and Localities: A Review of Method as Method” by Liang Luo](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/prism_method-as-method.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.} Travis S. K. Kong, Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten η·η·ζ£ε³οΈ°ι¦ζΈ―εΉ΄ι·η·εεΏε£θΏ°ε², Hong Kong University Press, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “See How Much I Love You: Reviewing Travis S. K. Kong’s ππππ π»ππ π‘πππππ ππ πππππ πΊππ¦ πππ ππ π»πππ πΎπππ” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/oral-histories-of-older-gay-men-in-hong-kong_travis-s-k-kong.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Joshua Bird, this review is part of Issue 46 ofΒ Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} John Fitzgerald and Hon-ming Yip (editors), Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific 1850-1949 θ―εζ εθη°ε€ͺεΉ³ζ΄εη廣ζ±δΊΊδΈη 1850β1949, Hong Kong University Press, 2020.…
![[REVIEW] “Building Bridges Across Both Countries and Cultures: A Review of Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific 1850-1949” by Joshua Bird](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/chinese-diaspora-charity-and-the-cantonese.png?w=1024)
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Co-EditorΒ Tammy Lai-Ming Ho‘s note:Β Jonathan Stalling’s βEvolving from Embryo and Changing the Bones: Translating the Sonorousβ ε₯ͺθζιͺ¨: θ―θ©©ει³, re-published below, first appeared inΒ Issue 22 (December 2013)Β of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, themed “Ancient Asia” and guest edited by Lucas Klein, who…
![[FEATURE] “Evolving from Embryo and Changing the Bones: Translating the Sonorous” by Jonathan Stalling](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/invisible-poem-du-fu-welcome-rain-on-a-spring-night-150x300cm-acrylic-on-canvas-2012.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Vania Tabanelli, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} JinJin Xu, There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife, Radix Media, 2020. 35 pgs. JinJin Xu is a writer and filmmaker…
![[REVIEW] “A Laboratory of Fine Imagery: Reviewing JinJin Xu’s There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife” by Vania Tabanelli](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/there-is-still-singing-in-the-afterlife-by-jinjin-xu-1.jpg?w=1024)
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Translation Editor Lucas Klein‘s note: I started CipherJournal in 2003 to be an online venue for creative literary translation and writing about literary translation. At the end of 2004 I received a submission from Don Mee Choi of translations of poetry by…
![[FEATURE] “Translationese” by Don Mee Choi and Tony Barnstone](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/brice-marden-etchings-for-rexroth-17.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Too Too Too Too, Math Paper Press, 2018. 100 pgs. Tammy Lai-Ming Hoβs second book of poems, Too Too Too Too, is a book of tensionsβbetween the styles of poetry…
![[REVIEW] “Too Too Too Too Is Not Too Much” by Lucas Klein](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/too-too-too-too-by-tammy-lai-ming-ho-math-paper-press.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.} Hongwei Bao, Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature And Visual Culture Under Postsocialism, Routledge (London & New York, 2020), 213 pgs. Shaping…
![[REVIEW] βHongwei Bao’s Queer China Under Neoliberalism with Socialist Characteristicsβ by Elaine Chiew](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/queer-china-lesbian-and-gay-literature-and-visual-culture-under-postsocialism-1.png?w=1024)
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