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{Written by Quenntis Ashby, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jason Erik Lundberg, A Fickle and Restless Weapon, Epigram Books, 2020. 456 pgs. Jason Erik Lundberg’s debut novel is a fascinating and…
![[REVIEW] “Identity is a Constant Negotiation and Struggle for a Self-Worth Fighting For: A Review of Jason Erik Lundberg’s A Fickle and Restless Weapon” by Quenntis Ashby](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/a-fickle-and-restless-weapon.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Karen Ma, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Heather Diamond, Rabbit in the Moon, Camphor Press, 2021. 302 pgs. Editors’ note: Rabbit in the Moon is scheduled for publication on…
![[REVIEW] “A Bittersweet Reminder: Reviewing Rabbit in the Moon” by Karen Ma](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/rabbit-in-the-moon-cover_heather-diamond-1.jpeg?w=994)
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{Written by Cherrie Kwok, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Aftershock. Holmes Chan (editor), Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong, Small Tune Press, 2020. 93 pgs. The cover of Aftershock:…
![[REVIEW] “Traces that Haunt the Scene: A Review of 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑐𝑘” by Cherrie Kwok](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/aftershock_holmes-chan.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} The Bauhinia Project, Hong Kong Without Us: A People’s Poetry, University of Georgia Press, 2021. 120 pgs. Figures take shape insofar as we can recognise, in passing discourse, something that has been read,…
![[REVIEW] “A Time Capsule and a Seed: Reviewing 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑈𝑠” by Sam Cheuk](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/hong-kong-without-us.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.} Malcolm Merry, The Unruly New Territories: Small Houses, Ancestral Estates, Illegal Structures, and Other Customary Land Practices of Rural Hong Kong, Hong Kong…
![[REVIEW] “Truculent Attitude and Independent Spirit: A Review of Malcolm Merry’s The Unruly New Territories” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/the-unruly-new-territories-small-houses-ancestral-estates-illegal-structures-and-other-customary-land-practices-of-rural-hong-kong-1.jpeg?w=666)
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{Written by James Au Kin-Pong, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Minae Mizumura (author), Juliet Winters Carpenter (translator; in collaboration with the author), An I-Novel, Columbia University Press, 2021. 325 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Pursuing Her Japanese Identity: A Review of Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/an-i-novel-minae-mizumura-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} The Bauhinia Project, Hong Kong Without Us: A People’s Poetry, University of Georgia Press, 2021. 120 pgs. Growing up, I was told quite often that when you write with real feeling, the…
![[REVIEW] “Across the Silence of Oceans: A Review of 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑈𝑠” by Arwi Y. Wong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/hong-kong-without-us-a-peoples-poetry-edited-by-the-bauhinia-project-1.jpeg?w=745)
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{Written by Joshua Bird, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Barak Kushner and Andrew Levidis (editors), In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire Imperial Violence: State Destruction, and the Reordering of Modern…
![[REVIEW] “Ongoing Legacy: Reviewing 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑉𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒” by Joshua Bird](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/in-the-ruins-of-the-japanese-empire-.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nigel Collett, A Death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal, City University of Hong Kong Press,…
![[REVIEW] “A Catalyst for Repealing Anti-Gay Statutes: Reviewing Nigel Collett’s 𝐴 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/a-death-in-hong-kong_nigel-collett.jpeg?w=683)
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{Written by Chase Michael Greenfield, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Quan Manh Ha and Joseph Babcock (translators and editors), Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its…
![[REVIEW] “What We Never Carried Back: A Review of Vietnamese Stories in 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑠” by Chase Michael Greenfield](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/other-moons-vietnamese-short-stories.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Suyin Haynes, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Patricia O’Sullivan, Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-1941, Blacksmith Books, 2020. 344 pgs. In early March 1926, Hong Kong was…
![[REVIEW] “Part of a Rare Breed: Reviewing Patricia O’Sullivan’s 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛, 𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑠” by Suyin Haynes](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/women-crime-and-the-courts-hong-kong.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Jimin Kang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Aftershock. Holmes Chan (editor), Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong, Small Tune Press, 2020. 93 pgs. Aftershock: Essays from Hong…
![[REVIEW] “Testimony Will Always Prevail: A Review of 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑐𝑘” by Jimin Kang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/aftershock_holmes-chan-1.jpeg?w=500)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Francisca Yuenki Lai, Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires, Hong Kong University Press, 2020. 148 pgs. It’s a Sunday afternoon in Kowloon Park or Victoria Park, Hong Kong, and Francisca…
![[REVIEW] “A Study of Where Sexuality is Produced: Reviewing Maid to Queer” by Noah Arthur Weber](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/francisca-yuenki-lai-maid-to-queer-asian-labor-migration-and-female-same-sex-desires.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Written by Ari Santiago, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Zafar Anjum (editor), The Best Asian Short Stories 2020, Kitaab, 2020. 268 pgs. Collections titled “the best” are always kind of presumptuous,…
![[REVIEW] “Asia in So Many Words: A Review of 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 2020” by Ari Santiago](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/tbass-2020-front-23-oct-1.jpeg?w=1024)
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{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. According to a quick etymological internet search, the term “method” originates in the…
![[REVIEW] “Review as Method: A Review of Method as Method” by Gareth Paul Breen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/prism_method-as-method.png?w=1024)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE by Ko Ko Thett A tongue that demands ‘Water! Water! Water!’ is chapped from tonguing the thick lips of a totalitarian ashtray. You may find life in a bombshell. There is no water in ash. They redress their national internal bleeding…
![[FEATURE] Two New Poems by Ko Ko Thett with Commentary](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ko-ko-thett.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} C.T. Au, The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan, Lexington Books, 2020. 202 pgs. C.T. Au’s The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung…
![[REVIEW] “Dissected by Theory: A Review of C.T. Au’s The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/the-hong-kong-modernism-of-leung-ping-kwan_review.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.} Yū Miri (author) and Morgan Giles (translator), Tokyo Ueno Station, Tilted Axis Press, 2019 (first published in 2014). 197 pgs. Kazu Mori is…
![[REVIEW] “Critical Social Commentary of Modern Japan: A Review of Yū Miri’s 𝑇𝑜𝑘𝑦𝑜 𝑈𝑒𝑛𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tokyouenostation-2.jpg?w=762)
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晚祷多多 犹如播种者对着收割者一对父母，分得开开地垂首，看一个男孩从地底下看他们那被借予生者的光就又被挪远了一点 一片砍过的禾地便把弯腰者的风景拿进晚祷——黑夜的粮食当铲上的落日对着男孩眼中的落日，去集中这苦——那整块的光芒 当葬礼，铲形的波浪落日平静的果实，要求我们重新接受麦束的约束…… EVENSONGby Duo Duo, translated into English by Lucas Klein as is the sower to the reapera pair of parents separatedlyhang their heads, to see a boylooking at them from below the groundthe light granted to the livingis…
![[FEATURE] Two New Translations by Lucas Klein: Duo Duo and Bian Zhlin](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/duo-duo-and-bian-zhlin.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.} Chia Joo Ming (Author), Sim Wai Chew (Translator), Exile or Pursuit, Balestier Press, 2019. 306 pgs. Exile or Pursuit employs the genre…
![[REVIEW] “Bildungsroman of a Singaporean Ordinary Joe: A Review of Chia Joo Ming’s 𝐸𝑥𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡” by Elaine Chiew](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/exile-or-pursuit.jpg?w=1024)
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斷章卞之琳 你站在橋上看風景，看風景的人在樓上看你。明月裝飾了你的窗子，你裝飾了別人的夢。 FRAGMENTby Bian Zhilin, translated into English by Lucas Klein You stand on the bridge overlooking the landscape,and upstairs someone looking at the landscape looks at you. The moon adorns your window,and you adorn somebody’s dream. 在哈爾蓋仰望星空西川 有一種神秘你無法駕馭你只能充當旁觀者的角色聽憑那神秘的力量從 遙遠的地方發出信號射出光來，穿透你的心像今夜，在哈爾蓋在這個遠離城市的荒涼的地方，在這青藏高原上的一個蠶…
![[FEATURE] Two New Translations by Lucas Klein: Bian Zhilin and Xi Chuan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/bian-zhilin-and-xi-chuan.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.} Leslie Shimotakahara, Red Oblivion, Dundurn Press, 2019. 304 pgs. Jill Lau and her sister Celeste rush to visit their elderly father after…
![[REVIEW] “A Stirring Tribute to Hong Kong: A Review of Leslie Shimotakahara’s Red Oblivion” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/red-obivion_shimotakahara.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Marc de Faoite, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (author) and Arunava Sinha (translator), The Yogini, Tilted Axis Press, 2019. 208 pgs. The Yogini is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay’s third…
![[REVIEW] “Parallel and Intertwining Interpretations: Reviewing Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑖” by Marc de Faoite](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/the-yogini.png?w=1024)
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{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. Method here is used as a “prism” to tease out our underlying assumptions…
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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. Charles Bernstein in his essay in…
![[REVIEW] “Seeing Sounds and Tasting Words: Xi Xi’s 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠” by Jennifer Anne Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/not-written-words-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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Download Joshua Ip’sSeven PoemsHERE. . The genesis of these translations was an intellectual property snafu. In 2020, I threw myself into a project to translate 30 poems—by a pioneer Singapore poet who wrote exclusively in classical Chinese forms—into formal English…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Kidnapping a Beloved Ancestor from Their Home Timeline: On Translating Chinese Poets from the Tang and Song Dynasties” by Joshua Ip](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/seven-poems-by-joshua-ip-for-asian-cha.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Ang Kia Yee, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Che Qianzi (author), Yunte Huang (translator), No Poetry: Selected Poems of Che Qianzi, Polymorph Editions, 2019. 177 pgs. The poems in No…
![[REVIEW] “Loving Anarchy: A Review of No Poetry” by Ang Kia Yee](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/no-poetry.jpg?w=707)
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{Written by Frances An, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sebastian Veg (editor), Popular Memories of the Mao Era: From Critical Debate to Reassessing History 毛時代的民間記憶：從批判性辯論到歷史的再評價, Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 256 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Underground resilience in Popular Memories of the Mao Era” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/popular-memories-of-the-mao-era-from-critical-debate-to-reassessing-history.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.} Patricia O’Sullivan, Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-1941, Blacksmith Books, 2020. 344 pgs. When the British took Hong Kong in 1841,…
![[REVIEW] “Not Hardened Criminals: A Review of Patrician O’Sullivan’s Women, Crime and the Courts” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2_women-crime-and-the-courts-hong-kong-1841-1941-800px-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Yu Müller, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Che Qianzi (author), Yunte Huang (translator), No Poetry: Selected Poems of Che Qianzi, Polymorph Editions, 2019. 177 pgs. Che Qianzi’s bilingual poetry…
![[REVIEW] “Look at the Silence You See: A Review of Che Qianzi’s 𝑁𝑜 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑦” by Yu Müller](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/no-poetry-selected-poems-of-che-qianzi.png?w=1024)
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