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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Douglas Robinson, Gulliverβs Voyage to Phantomimia: A Transcreation, Zeta Books, 2020. 356 pgs. I imagine, that in the Great Deluge, 2 sworn Enemies, having clumb up onto the same…
![[REVIEW] ββWhat is He Doing Playing Fantastickall Fictive Games with Realitie?β Or, βA Pandemonium of Embracesβ: Luxuriating in Douglas Robinsonβs Transcreation of Volter Kilpiβs Unfinished πΊπ’ππππ£ππβπ πππ¦πππ π‘π πβπππ‘ππππππβ by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/gullivers-voyage-to-phantomimia-a-transcreation-1.png?w=1024)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ The Seven Moons. Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Penguin India, 2022. This review is cross-published with Polity. A murdered journalist “awakens” in…
![[REVIEW] “Impunity, Violence, and the Politics of Representation: Shehan Karunatilaka’s πβπ πππ£ππ πππππ ππ πππππ π΄ππππππ” by Harshana Rambukwella](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida_shehan-karunatilaka.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Malcolm Mejin, The Diary of a Rich Kid: Lost in Space, Penguin Random House SEA, 2023. 208 pgs. Malcolm Mejinβs The Diary of a Rich Kid: Lost in Space…
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ππβ πΎππβ by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/diary-of-a-rich-kid-lost-in-space-1.jpg?w=407)
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π Click HERE to read the 54 selected “JUST ANOTHER DAY” entries Cha: An Asian Literary Journal invites one-off submissions of 300-500 word reflections written on 4 June 2023 from writers residing anywhere in the world, to be selected for…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “We Fight for Causes When the Odds Are Stacked Against Us: Togani (The Crucible)” by Jack Greenberg Gong Ji-young (author), Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton (translators),Β Togani, University of Hawai’i Press, 2023.…
![[REVIEW] “We Fight for Causes When the Odds Are Stacked Against Us: ππππππ (The Crucible)” by Jack Greenberg](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/togani-gong-ji-young-1.jpg?w=1024)
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Isabel Sandoval (director), Lingua Franca, 2019. 90 min. In the gloaming hour, light leaves remnants of ambiguity everywhere. Nothing of consequence has asserted itself, at least not yet.…
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TH: All photographs in this essay are by the author. Header image: Altar with ancestral tablets, Tang Clan ancestral hall, Ping Shan, 31 December 1996. The son of cartoonist Ma Lung is seen in this image. . Guests at a…
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Hongjian Wang, Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation, Cambria Press, 2020. pgs. 252. The modern notion of decadence developed from Montesquieuβs…
![[REVIEW] “Through the Lens of European Decadence: Hongjian Wang’s π·ππππππππ ππ ππππππ πΆβππππ π πΏππ‘ππππ‘π’ππ πππ πΆπ’ππ‘π’ππ” by Sabina Knight](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/decadence-in-modern-chinese-literature-and-culture-a-comparative-and-literary-historical-reevaluation-1.jpg?w=500)
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π Click HERE for all First Impressions entries. We are very pleased to announce the launch of π π’π«π¬π ππ¦π©π«ππ¬π¬π’π¨π§π¬, a section of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal devoted to compact reviews of books and films (300-800 words; negotiable) that may…
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Soon Ai Ling (author) and Yeo Wei Wei (translator), Diasporic, Balestier Press, 2023. Soon Ai Lingβs short stories weave cultural trajectories from Guangdong, Hong Kong, the UK,…
![[REVIEW] “New Languages and New Lives: Soon Ai Ling’s π·πππ πππππ” by Astrid MΓΈller-Olsen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/diasporic-1.jpg?w=495)
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ The Sorrows of Others. Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others, A Public Space, 2023. 160 pgs. Previously on Cha, Susan Blumberg-Kason reviewed Ada Zhangβs…
![[REVIEW] “A Fractured Chinese American Diaspora in Ada Zhangβs πβπ ππππππ€π ππ ππ‘βπππ ” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/the-sorrows-of-others-ada-zhang.jpg?w=700)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Owlish. Dorothy Tse (author), Natascha Bruce (translator), Owlish, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023. 224 pgs. Iβve always sensed that Hong Kong has a unique way of combining the…
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β Translator’s Forewordβ Five Poemsβ Short Tongue @ Sea Breeze Books TRANSLATOR’S FOREWORD by Daryl Lim Wei Jie I first encountered the poetry of Wang Mun Kiat ι»ζζ° when I translated some of his poems for a special issue of…
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β Translator’s Forewordβ Five Poemsβ Short Tongue @ Sea Breeze Books MODERN BOOK OF REVELATION: SMARTPHONE by Wang Mun Kiat, translated from the Chinese into English by Daryl Lim Wei Jie Looking down:the most talkativemutes Looking up:the loneliestchatterboxes . η°δ»£ε―η€Ίε½οΌζΊθ½ζζΊ…
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on The Sorrows of Others. Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others, A Public Space, 2023. 160 pgs. Empathy. Itβs a simple word and one…
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films BαΊ£o Ninh (author), Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran (translators and editors), HΓ Nα»i at Midnight: Stories, with a foreword by Nguyα» n VΔn ThuαΊ₯n, Texas Tech University…
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Tim Tim Cheng, Tapping at Glass, Verve Poetry Press, 2023. 44 pgs. History, of course, repeats itself. What was termed βThe Lost Generationβ by Gertrude Stein, to…
![[REVIEW] “Permutations of Loss: The Poetics of Tim Tim Cheng” by Sam Cheuk](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cheng-tim-tim_tapping-at-glass.png?w=1024)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Outstanding Translations of a Singular Poet: Yam Gong’s Moving a Stone” by Mary King Bradley and Matthew Cheng Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon Moving a Stone. Yam Gong (author), James Shea…
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Shirley Geok-lin Lim, In Praise of Limes, Sungold Editions, 2022. 106 pgs. In this review of Shirley Geok-lin Limβs In Praise of Limes, I attempt a process which…
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Rin Ishigaki (author), Janine Beichman (translator), and Paul Rossiter (editor), This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems, with an introduction by Janine Beichman, Isobar Press, 2022. 118 pgs. When…
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TH: With great pleasure we are presenting Matt Turner’s preface to his translation of Lu Xun’s Weeds ιθ, published by Seaweed Salad Editions in 2019. The book also includes an introduction by Nick Admussen and woodblock print artwork by Monika…
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After Death by Lu Xun, translated from the Chinese into English by Matt Turner I dreamt I was dead on the road. Where I was, how I arrived there, how I died, I understood none of it. In short, by…
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Beggars by Lu Xun, translated from the Chinese into English by Matt Turner Iβm walking alongside a high, peeling wall, stamping loose dust. Several others walk alone. A breeze comes up, and tree branches above the wall, with still-unwithered leaves,…
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Trembling Decay by Lu Xun, translated from the Chinese into English by Matt Turner I dreamt I was dreaming. I didnβt know where I was, before my eyes, late night, the confining interior of a small hutβand I could also…
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TH:Β We are pleased to present an exclusive essay by Eileen J. Cheng entitled “Lu Xun and Radical Art” and her English translation of Lu Xun’s “Tombstone Inscriptions” ε’η’£ζ, included in Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk. “Tombstone Inscriptions”…
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π XI XIβCAN WE SAY: Entries π Xi Xi and Jennifer Feeley
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Gish Jen, Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories, Alfred A Knopf, 2022. 272 pgs. βA beautiful country full of beautiful coats, what could that be but evil?β ponders…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao (editors), Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics, Syracuse University Press, 2021. 408 pgs. In Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, on the shore where the Fu and Nan rivers…
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EDITORIAL / FEBRUARY 2010 (ISSUE 10) OTHER EDITORIALS There are two conflicting images of train travel. The first is of a train journey as romance, an unhurried and meandering trip through exotic landsβa luxurious ride eastward on the Orient Express,…
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EDITORIAL / NOVEMBER 2009 (ISSUE 9) OTHER EDITORIALS Anniversaries are, of course, a traditional time to take stock, find your bearings, make predictions about future directions. On the occasion of our second anniversary issue, I felt this would be a…
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