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Jon Ng, Hong Kong: Growing Pains, Proverse Press, 2020. 74 pgs. MY CURATION OF PRIVATE THOUGHTS I was trying to grow up when I started to put this collection together. It’s funny to think of now but, as I hit…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “On Writing 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔: 𝐺𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠” by Jon Ng](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/jon-ng_hong-kong-growing-pains_proverse.png?w=1024)
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INTRODUCTION Currently based in Glasgow, Scotland, Sean Wai Keung has lived in places including London, Yorkshire and Norwich. His maternal grandparents migrated from Hong Kong in the 1950s and he remains close to his extended family in Sai Kung. His…
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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 Strange Beasts. Yan Ge (author) and Jeremy Tiang (translator), Strange Beasts of China, Tilted Axis Press, 2020. 314 pgs. Strange Beasts of China begins with a…
![[REVIEW] “Asymmetric and Unexpected: A Review of 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Ari Santiago](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/strange-beasts-of-china-1.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Andrew Barker, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Stephen Griffiths, The Kowloon English Club, Blacksmith Books, 2021. 292 pgs. Andrew Barker discusses Stephen Griffiths’s expat Hong Kong novel about a…
![[REVIEW] “The Expatriate, Itinerant Underclass: A Review of Stephen Griffiths’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐾𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝐶𝑙𝑢𝑏” by Andrew Barker](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/the-kowloon-english-club.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 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 Ge’s…
![[REVIEW] “The Unconcealed Rebellion, Cynicism, Bravery and Romanticism of Being Painfully Young: Yan Ge’s 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” 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 𝐸𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖 𝐶𝑟𝑎𝑏 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑒” 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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{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 男男正傳︰香港年長男同志口述史, Hong Kong University Press, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “See How Much I Love You: Reviewing Travis S. K. Kong’s 𝑂𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑂𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐺𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔” 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 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} John Fitzgerald and Hon-ming Yip (editors), Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific 1850-1949 華僑慈善與環太平洋區的廣東人世界 1850–1949, Hong Kong University Press, 2020.…
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Co-Editor Tammy Lai-Ming Ho‘s note: Jonathan Stalling’s “Evolving from Embryo and Changing the Bones: Translating the Sonorous” 奪胎換骨: 譯詩存音, re-published below, first appeared in Issue 22 (December 2013) of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, themed “Ancient Asia” and guest edited by Lucas Klein, who…
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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…
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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 Ho’s second book of poems, Too Too Too Too, is a book of tensions—between 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] “Hongwei Bao’s Queer China Under Neoliberalism with Socialist Characteristics” 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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{Written by Frances An, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ping Zhu, Zhuoyi Wang, and Jason McGrath (editors), Maoist Laughter (毛時代的笑), Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 232 pgs. Accounts of communist terror—for example,…
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{Written by Anya Goncharova, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jennifer Wong, Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl, Bitter Melon 苦瓜, 2019. 20 pgs. Life is a series of memory fragments that piece…
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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.} David Chaffetz, Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture in Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou, Abbreviated Press, 2019. 88 pgs. When one thinks of the…
![[REVIEW] “At the Centre of the Arts: A Review of David Chaffetz’s Three Asian Divas” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/three-asian-divas_david-chaffetz_abbreviated-press.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Ho Kin Yunn, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, The Good Day I Died: The Near-Death Experience of a Harvard Divinity Student, Penguin, 2019. 248 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “The Gift of Returns: Reckoning with Desmond Kon’s The Good Day I Died” by Ho Kin Yunn](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/desmond-kon_the-good-day-i-die.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Aaron Chan, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {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 Ho’s second poetry collection Too Too Too…
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What can literature—and arts and humanities in general—do in a global pandemic? Not much, some would say; a lot, others may insist. I do not have an answer to such a complex question. But, ever since the start of the…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “The Use of Literature in a Global Pandemic” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/masked-woman.jpg?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.} Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales, Painter and Patron: The Maritime Silk Road in the Códice Casanatense, Abbreviated Press, 2020. 102…
![[REVIEW] “Quite Connected Centuries Ago: Reviewing Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales’s Painter and Patron” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/painter-and-patron.jpg?w=1024)
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Poetry / June/July 2019 (Issue 44) June 六月by Xi Xi, translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley 六月 牆上掛著幅抽象畫，兩旁是巨型書架能夠坐在這裏一塊兒聊天真好。你的女兒在中央美術院念書，我們剛好帶了冊亨利摩亞送給她 你帶我們去逛民辦、書舍，過兩條街還有唱搖滾樂的咖啡店，喇嘛廟旁住著坐在輪椅上沈思的作家。除夕子夜，揮手再見，清晨八點，你撥電話來報訊：下雪了從飯店的露台我們看見，銀白美麗的長安街樓房的屋頂，灑遍童話世界的糖粉 每年六月，我們孕育遠行的夢，看一點山水，買一點書探訪朋友。六月又來了，天色詭異、你們那裏驟然雪崩，透過熒光屏幕，坦示慘白的廣場，都城滿罩濃霜，寒流不斷擴散，所有的人震驚 這麼嚴峻的六月你好麼？只有降溫的消息，太冷太冷了，遠方的景物凝結成冰我們的夢氣球一一凍裂。攤開地圖，不知道兩隻腳，還可以選擇哪一個方向 一九八九•七•四 JUNE On the wall hungan abstract painting flankedby huge bookcasesHow nice it wasto sit togetherjust chattering away…
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Poetry / March 2015 (Issue 27) Lebanon 黎巴嫩by Xi Xi, translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley 黎巴嫩 這麼美麗的國家，沒有戰爭多麼好狹長的葉形版圖，河道脈絡縱橫灰綠的橄欖林覆蓋濕潤的紅土柑橘堆疊櫃臺，香蕉串垂果攤連綿的海岸線，良港名城如圖釘懸崖上仍聳立著十字軍巍峨的城堡面向澄澈碧藍的地中海終年積雪的山脈，遙遙對照一座叫黎巴嫩，另一座叫反黎巴嫩針鋒相對，一樣和平相處共同守護貝加谷地，帶來風調雨順盛產葡萄，當然就好酒 還以為是慶曲的海報，聖誕紅框邊，裁出一片純白的空間背景是雪地吧，中央屹立無比婆娑枝葉茂密的香柏原來是國旗，仿佛永遠的耶誕正是十二月下旬，城鄉處處燈盞璀璨如同裝置藝展，新月剛露出彎角，齊戒月就開始了這邊，守齋的守齋，那邊唱聖詩的唱聖詩，一座宗教博物館到處是清真寺，到處是教堂回教，基督教，天主教，東正教教派林立，沒有國教，信仰自由中世紀的諾曼王國，因為兼容成為高度文明輝煌富庶的城邦 自謙是小小國家，如果僅是沙漠地大有何用，人口四百萬只有香港的一半，我認為也寬敞了不產石油，卻是貿易轉運站不需要內陸航機，四百萬人擁有四百萬輛私家汽車，一美元十公升汽油，街上沒有吃角子老虎政府懂得還富於民；總統是基督徒首相是穆斯林，正是一國兩制內閣成員，不同宗教各佔半數不是也可以融洽相處了麼？單一的聲音不等於和諧 貝魯特市中心的樓宇，經過十七年內戰倒塌了大半，綠線兩旁仿若地震災場敗瓦露出鋼筋，拼命拉扯將墜的三合土更多頹牆，繡遍蕾絲花邊似得彈痕燈色昏黃，裏面仍住著無殻蝸牛停戰七年了，吊臂與纜車在高空游動鑽地聲吵耳，塵土飛揚，都是好景象文字的祖先，擅長航海，紫染腓尼基人的後裔，所以自傲繼續烘甜餅吧，讓孩子安心上學吧重建家園吧，清早上山滑雪午後到沙灘游泳，逛鐘乳岩洞吧這麼美麗的國家，沒有戰爭多麼好 一九九八。十二 LEBANON What a beautiful country—if only there was no warThe long and narrow leaf-shaped domain crisscrossed with…
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Poetry / March 2015 (Issue 27) Children Among the Ruins 廢墟中的兒童by Xi Xi, translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley 廢墟中的兒童 喂，你叫什麼名字？這位梳馬尾約九歲的瘦削女孩，站在石砌路旁廢墟地基上，用流俐英語發問另外幾個六，七歲男童不說話只是微笑，一個站在家門口，一個站在礫石間，一個站在半條斷柱頂高高在上，灰黑的玄武岩背景中他們的紫藍綠紅毛衣，風衣運動褲鮮明奪目，其他成年人，男子裏頭巾，女子埋在長夜般的黑袍中 簡陋的平房全用方石堆砌，露出拼貼補綴的殘破木門窗，數十隻綿羊在空地上覓食，找到甚麼？根本看不見有草，一條水管不知從多遠來，還要到多遠去兩隻羊圍在鋅鐵面盆旁低頭喝水這裏曾是羅馬人建的城市，規模雖小些，藍圖與龐貝相似，那邊是浴場這邊是商店和住宅，唯一的不同劇場雖也露天，卻建在堡壘中千百年來，不受牛羊踐踏，成為現存最完整的一座，回音極好：羅馬人哪眾公民哪，我來，不是為了埋葬凱撒而是讚美他；導遊說，為了發展 旅遊，政府將收回土地，把居民遷徙徙置這件事，我在香港目擊數十年了徙置到哪裏，真有妥善安排？近不近學校，能不能再養羊？敍利亞通脹高達百分之十二，面對人口膨脹，軍費龐大兩個難題在生靈和古蹟之間，真是兩難樹木砍伐殆盡，如果中國十二億人民沒有磚石蓋房子，我們是否寧願不要長城？ 一九九八 CHILDREN AMONG THE RUINS Hey, what’s your name? A ponytailedGirl about nine years old, all skin and bones,…
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Fiction / April 2018 (Issue 39) The Body’s Language (from Mourning a Breast)by Xi Xi, translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley For half a century, my body and I have depended on each other for survival. Throughout this long…
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Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Fang Fang. From 23 January to 8 April this year, the Chinese city of Wuhan was under lockdown for 77 days to contain the spread of COVID-19. For most of the…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Three Women and Their Wuhan Diaries: Women’s Writing in a Quarantined Chinese City” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/wuhan-diaries.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Ash Dean, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Lan Lan (author), Fiona Sze-Lorrain (translator), Canyon in the Body, Zephyr Press, 2014. 208 pgs. Carrying, unzipping, stuffing, rezipping, Stowing— I am…
![[REVIEW] “Fine Lines of Meteorology: Lan Lan’s 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑑𝑦” by Ash Dean](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/lan-lan_canyon-in-the-body_fiona-sze-lorrain.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Fathima M, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} David Chaffetz, Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture in Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou, Abbreviated Press, 2019. 88 pgs. Culture and cultural…
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{Written by Sucharita Dutta-Asane, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} H.S. Shivaprakash (author) and Kamalakar Bhat (editor), The Word in the World: Essays and Lectures on Indian Literature and Aesthetics, Manipal…
![[REVIEW] “A Cosmopolitan Breadth of Vision: A Review of Essays and Lectures on Indian Literature and Aesthetics” by Sucharita Dutta-Asane](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/the-word-in-the-world_hs-shivaprakash.jpg?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.} Antony Dapiran, City on Fire: the Fight for Hong Kong, Scribe, 2020. 336 pgs. In June 1987, my father and I…
![[REVIEW] “Unique Strength of Hong Kong People: A Review of Antony Dapiran’s City on Fire” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/city-on-fire-the-fight-for-hong-kong-antony-dapiran.jpg?w=1024)
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