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[REVIEW] “Satire, Science, and Utopia: Wu Jianrenβs New Story of the Stone” by Ronald Gray Wu Jianren (author), Liz Evans Weber (translator). New Story of the Stone: An Early Chinese Science Fiction Novel. Columbia University Press, 2025. 600 pgs. Cao…
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Header artwork by Annysa Ng Weβre accepting submissions. Please readour important NOTES. θΆ Hong Kongclick for information θΆ First Impressionsclick for information θΆ Essays click for information θΆ Proposals click for information θΆ Poetry: En Routeclick for information θΆ Hong…
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[INCIDENTAL] “Resolute Voices Across Time: Virginia Woolf, Eileen Chang, and Chow Hang-tung” by Patrick Poon Few would think to place the British writer Virginia Woolf, the Chinese writer Eileen Chang, and Chow Hang-tung, the Hong Kong barrister and Vice-Chairperson of…
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[ESSAY] βSpongeboyβ by Kin Pan The author with his grandmother outside Sydney Town Hall in the Olympic year, 2000. Her Cantonese isnβt the melodic speech of a Hong Kong film. In my first Mandarin class, the teacher asks why each…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] βLast Cry: Light, Love and Everyday Evil in Weβre Nothing at Allβ by Tin Yuet Tam Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on We’re Nothing at All. Herman Yau (director). Weβre Nothing at…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Beyond First Love: Family Trauma and the Search for Connection in Rio Shimamotoβs First Love” by James Kin Pong Au Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon First Love.…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βBetween Hegel and Home: Reading Fukuyamaβs In the Realm of the Last Manβ by Raymond Pun Francis Fukuyama. In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir, Farrar, Straus and…
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ππππ ππ π‘βπ πΏππ π‘ πππ” by Raymond Pun](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Francis-Fukuyama.-In-the-Realm-of-the-Last-Man-A-Memoir-.jpg)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βBody Part 520: Crime and Tragic Romance in Herman Yauβs Weβre Nothing at Allβ by Jennifer Eagleton Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on We’re Nothing at All. Herman Yau (director). Weβre…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] βThe Politics of Smallness and the Power of Cute in Hui Faye Xiaoβs Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First Century Chinaβ by GΓ©raldine Fiss Hui Faye Xiao. Youth Economy,…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βGhost in the Shellphone: TxT and the Rarity of Filipino Techno-horrorβby William Carlo Antonio Sanchez Mike Tuviera (director). TxT, 2006, 114 min. For a country so chronically online and so…
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[ESSAY] βIntimacy and Distance: Reflections on Learning to Be Bicultural in Malaysia, 1966 to 1969β by Daniel Regan Fitting In Iβm no smuggler. And yet I smuggled. It wasnβt much, just some cloth and foodstuffs tucked beneath clothing and in…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Metaphor of Trees: Stephanie Ellen Sy’s The Magnificent Banyan Tree and the Green Tong Lau” by Rebekah Chan Stephanie Ellen Sy (writer), Ishita Jain (illustrator). The Magnificent Banyan Tree…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βForms of Drift: Displacement and Its Antidotes in Mai-Linh Hongβs Continental Driftβ by Kai Hang Cheang Click HERE to read all entrieson Continental Drift. Mai-Linh Hong. Continental Drift, Trio House…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Authority to Continue in Kiwi Chow’s Deadline” by Qinlei Wang Kiwi Chow (director). Deadline, 2025. 117 minutes. By the time a teacher proposes suspending the final examinations at Enshan…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Literature in the Age of Information: Anatoly Detwyler’s Seeing Through Abstraction” by Julie Xinzhu Chen Anatoly Detwyler. Seeing Through Abstraction: Literary Encounters with Information in Modern China, Columbia University Press,…
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Cha invites authors, editors, translators, publishers, and readers to propose books, films, or other cultural productions for extended featured coverage in the journal, including single-author features. Extended coverage like this often begins with the editor-in-chief’s own enthusiasm for the work.…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Dead Are Still Addressing Us: On Jeremy Fernandoβs translating love“ by Tyran Grillo Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon translating love. Jeremy Fernando (author), with paintings by Sara…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βListening to the Ghosts of Writing: On Jeremy Fernandoβs translating loveβ by Anders KΓΈlle Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon translating love. Jeremy Fernando (author), with paintings by…
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[INCIDENTAL] βThe Ties That Bind Us: Listening to Catherine Cho on The Devoted and Hong Kongβ by Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley Catherine Cho. The Devoted. Fourth Estate, 2026. 368 pp. Listening to Catherine Cho speak about The Devoted on 2 October 2026 at this yearβs Lincoln…
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[ESSAY] βOn the Banks of Bereavement: The Cultural Confluence of Vietnamese Grief, Memory, and Familial Hydro-historyβ by Tommy Vinh Bui Author espying seabirds on the Channel Islands Most people donβt look at a glass of water and feel the waterline…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timothy Billings and Li Bai’s Farewell” by Will Buckingham Timothy Billings. Twenty-Nine Goodbyes: An Introduction to Chinese Poetry, Fordham University Press, 2025. Somewhere beyond the…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “The Limits of Universality in Mary Stephen’s Palimpsest” by NLL Mary Stephen (director), Palimpsest: The Story of a Name, 2025. 108 min. I live in the middle of nowhere…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Right to Remain: Akane ArakiβsΒ Murder at the End of the World” by Tyran Grillo Akane Araki (author), Jesse Kirkwood (translator).Β Murder at the End of the World. Pushkin Press, 2026.…
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[CONVERSATION] “Between Text and Textile: On Unravelling Threads” by Tiffany Troy and brenda Lin brenda Lin. Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance. The Ohio State University Press, 2026. 216 pgs. Tiffany Troy (Tiffany): You begin the essay collection with βUmbilical Cord ηΉ«β, where…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Debts No Ledger Can Settle: Memory and Obligation in Diana Hongchaβs If You Donβt Go” by David M. Brown Diana Hongcha. If You Donβt Go, Amethyst Hill Publishing, 2025. 370…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [CONVERSATION + EXCERPT] “Banned in China, Born in Lockdown: On If You Don’t Go” by Diana Hongcha Diana Hongcha. If You Donβt Go, Amethyst Hill Publishing, 2025. 370 pgs. Read a…
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[FICTION] “Engagement” by Greg Solomon Greg Solomon on his story: One of the things I enjoy about Hong Kong is the diversity of people who live, work (and love) side by side. This is the social embodiment of yin and…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Rebuilding the Fishtrap: Translation, Biography and Female Poetics in Yu XuanjiβΒ by Marsha McDonald Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon Hiding in Caverns. Yu Xuanji (author), Lucas Klein…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “More Is Less: Cinco in the World of Anthology Horror” by William Carlo Antonio Sanchez Cinco, 2010. 148 mins. β Frasco Mortiz (director). Braso/Arm.β Enrico Santos (director). Paa/Feet.β Ato Bautista (director). Mata/Eyes.β…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] βTokyo Drift: Mobility of Excess, Geopolitical Imaginaries, and Japan-US Relations in the 2000sβ by John Adrianfer Atienza Justin Lin (director). The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, 2006. 104 min.…
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