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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Annika A. Culver and Norman Smith (editors), Manchukuo Perspectives: Transnational Approach to Literary Production, Hong Kong University Press, 2020. Miserable human mouths are born on each ink drop. The paper gets crowded…
![[REVIEW] “The Buried Past Revealed: Reading 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑘𝑢𝑜 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠” by Yu Müller](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/manchukuo-perspectives-transnational-approach-to-literary-production-hong-kong-university-press.png?w=1024)
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Kamayani Sharma on “Catching Fish”: I wrote the first draft of the poem on 14 April 2012. I remember the exact date because I emailed the poem to a friend as soon as I finished it. In those days, having…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Catching Fish” by Kamayani Sharma](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cha_accompanyingphoto.jpg?w=1024)
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[REVIEW] “An Intellectual Exchange: A Review of 𝐸𝑑𝑜 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑” by James Kin Pong Au
{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} {This review is cross-posted on Agora.} Donald Keene and Shiba Ryōtarō (authors), Tony Gonzalez (translator), Edo Japan Encounters the World: Conversations Between Donald Keene and Shiba Ryotaro, Japan Library, 2018. 137 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “An Intellectual Exchange: A Review of 𝐸𝑑𝑜 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑” by James Kin Pong Au](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/edo-japan-encounters-the-world-conversations-between-donald-keene-and-shiba-ryotaro.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ▚ Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Rain in Plural, Princeton University Press, 2020. 120 pgs.▚ Yin Lichuan (author), Fiona Sze-Lorrain (translator), Karma, Tolsun Books, 2020. 222 pgs.▚ Ye Lijun (author), Fiona Sze-Lorrain (translator), My Mountain…
![[REVIEW] “Fiona Sze-Lorrain: Poetry and Translations” by Elizabeth Chung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/fiona-sze-lorrain-7.png?w=1024)
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Photograph by Madeleine Slavick There are 22 of us on the plane from Auckland to Hong Kong and about 350 empty seats. I sleep across five. We depart at night and arrive at night. I talk with one person…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “The Yellow Chair” by Madeleine Slavick](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/the-yellow-chair-by-madeleine-slavick.jpg?w=1024)
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Ilaria Maria Sala, Cha contributor: As I write these lines, Andrei Kurkov is in Kyiv. Sometimes I get a message from him, sometimes he posts on Facebook: “Glory to Ukraine!” he wrote last. He is one of the greatest contemporary…
![[FEATURE] “Human Rights and Literature: USSR, Post-soviet Ukraine, and Russia”, a Lecture by Andrei Kurkov](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/andrei-kurkov-1.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Not Written Words. Xi Xi (author), Jennifer Feeley (translator), Not Written Words, Zephyr Press and MCCM Creations, 2016. 152 pgs. . “When I grow up,” writes…
![[REVIEW] “Quietly Radical: Xi Xi’s 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠” by Kyle Muntz](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/not-a-written-words_xi-xi.png?w=758)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Yeng Pway Ngon (author), Natascha Bruce (translator), Lonely Face, Balestier Press, 2019. 152 pgs. Yeng Pway Ngon’s novella Lonely Face, translated into English by Natascha Bruce, relates an unnamed middle-aged man’s reflections on his…
![[REVIEW] “Existential Capsules and Cusps in Yeng Pway Ngon’s 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑒” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lonely_face-1-1.jpeg?w=902)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Divination, Philosophy, and Change: The Original Meaning of the Yijing: Commentary on the Scripture of Change” by Tim Murphy Zhu Xi (author), Joseph A. Adler (translator and editor), The Original…
![[REVIEW] “Divination, Philosophy, and Change: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 Yijing: 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒” by Tim Murphy](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/original-meaning-of-the-yijing-zhu-xi-joseph-a-adler.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Liang Luo, The Global White Snake, University of Michigan Press, 2021. 373 pgs. “No culture can be fully understood in isolation,” writes Liang Luo in the introduction to her book The Global…
![[REVIEW] “Culture Is That Which Appropriates: A Review of Liang Luo’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑆𝑛𝑎𝑘𝑒” by Noah Arthur Weber](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/the-global-white-snake-1.jpeg?w=667)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Liu Xinwu (author), Jeremy Tiang (translator), The Wedding Party, Amazon Crossing, 2021. 400 pgs. Time is a recurring theme in Liu Xinwu’s novel, The Wedding Party, recently translated from the Chinese into English…
![[REVIEW] “A Rich Tapestry for Tomorrow’s Beijingers: A Review of 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/theweddingparty-1.jpeg?w=700)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mang Ke (author), Lucas Klein, Huang Yibing and Jonathan Stalling (translators), October Dedications: Selected Poetry of Mang Ke, Zephyr Press, 2018. 152 pgs. This summer, all five floors of the National Art…
![[REVIEW] “Shockingly Direct and Heterodox: Mang Ke’s 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝐷𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠” by David Harrison Horton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/october-dedications_mang-ke.png?w=994)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Takashina Shūji (author), Matt Treyvaud (translator), Japanese Art in Perspective: East-West Encounters, Japan Library, 2021. 191 pgs. An amateur of Japanese art might have heard about ukiyo-e (or floating painting), as well…
![[REVIEW] “(Re)formation of Ideas: 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/japanese-art-in-perspective-east-west-encounters.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Artist and author Fiona Hawthorne grew up in Hong Kong and much of her work is informed by her childhood, including two new books out this year: Drawing on the Inside: Kowloon…
![[REVIEW] “Fiona Hawthorne and Kowloon Walled City” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/fiona-hawthorne.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tahi Saihate (author) and Kalau Almony (translator), Astral Season, Beastly Season, Honford Star, 2021. 144 pgs. Tahi Saihate’s Astral Season, Beastly Season, translated from the Japanese by Kalau Almony, is an odd, beautiful,…
![[REVIEW] “Roughness of Thought: A Review of Tahi Saihate’s 𝐴𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑆𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛” by Maks Sipowicz](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/astral-season-beastly-season-tahi-saihate-translated-by-kalau-almony.png?w=1024)
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We are very pleased to announce that we have nominated the following three poems for the 2021 Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry. Results will be announced in January 2022. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! “Flowers” by Ysabelle Cheung…
![[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cha’s 2021 Hawker Prize Nominations](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/hawker-prize-1.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Peng Hsiao-yen (editor), The Assassin: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s World of Tang China, Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 252 ppgs. Published in 2019 by the Hong Kong University Press, The Assassin: Hou…
![[REVIEW] “A Historically Cosmopolitan, Mixed Culture: 𝐻𝑜𝑢 𝐻𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑜-𝐻𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑛‘𝑠 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑇𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/the-assassin.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Liu Yichang.Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on John Minford. John Minford (general editor), Hong Kong Literature Series, The Chinese University Press, 2020. If the library was on fire…
![[REVIEW] “We Shall Have to Learn How to Live with Ghosts: A Review of John Minford’s 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by Douglas Kerr](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/hong-kong-literature-series-1.png?w=1024)
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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…
![[REVIEW] “The Desire to Be Free and the Desire to Be Good: Nicholas Wong’s 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑔𝑒 𝑀𝑒” by Liam Blackford](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/besiege-me_nicholas-wong-1.jpeg?w=1024)
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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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[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 First performed at LOVE: A Reading, these are original poems by Ilaria Maria Sala. We are grateful…
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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 Lian-Hee Wee read excerpts from Ruth Smythers’s Sex Tips for Husbands & Wives from 1894 and Timothy…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Duo Duo (author), Lucas Klein (translator), Words as Grain: New and Selected Poems. Yale University Press, 2021. 246 pgs. What follows can only be read as an impressionistic fleeting encounter between a…
![[REVIEW] “Myriad Powers of Words: Duo Duo’s 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛” by Liang Luo](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/words-as-grain_lucas-klein_duo-duo.png?w=1024)
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Andrew Houwen’s note: The Japanese poet Kazue Shinkawa has described Noriko Ibaragi (1926-2006) as the “big sister” of post-war Japanese poetry. Ibaragi had her poetry first published at the age of 19, at a time when published women poets were…
![[EXCLUSIVE] Four New Translations of Noriko Ibaragi by Andrew Houwen and Peter Robinson](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ibaragi-noriko.jpeg?w=1024)
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