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{Written by Brian Haman, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Dai Congrong and Jin Li (editors), The Book of Shanghai: A City in Short Fiction, Comma Press, 2020. 150 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “An Ever-present Labyrinth: Reviewing The Book of Shanghai” by Brian Haman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/book-of-shanghai-a-city-in-short-fiction.jpg?w=1024)
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29 August 2020 Chatting with a friend from Guangzhou who lives in Singapore, I said “好懷念你嘅西關腔啊” (Your Sai Kwan intonation is nostalgic and I really miss it). My good friend has been very persistent in keeping her Guangzhou Sai Kwan…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Stories about Cantonese: My Mother Tongue” by Dongli Liang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/iredheartcantonese_4.jpg?w=1024)
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HONG KONG & VISUAL ARTS: A HONG KONG STUDIES SYMPOSIUM Only a year ago in 2019, most commentators on the field of art would have portrayed Hong Kong as a place that offered great opportunities for most art-related actors, from…
![[REPOSTING] Hong Kong & Visual Arts: Call for Abstracts](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/visual-arts_hks_updated_14-sept-2020.png?w=820)
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{Written by Matt Turner, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} David Clark, China-Art-Modernity: A Critical Introduction to Chinese Visual Expression from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century to the Present…
![[REVIEW] “Experiments in Form: A Review of David Clark’s 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎—𝐴𝑟𝑡—𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦” by Matt Turner](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/david-clarke_china-art-modernity.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Phill Provance, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Joshua Eric Williams, The Strangest Conversation, Red Moon Press, 2019. 64 pgs. Joshua Eric Williams’s collection of Western free-form haiku,…
![[REVIEW] “Into the White: A Review of Joshua Eric Williams’s The Strangest Conversation” by Phill Provance](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the-stranggest-conversation.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Maheen Haider, this review is part of the “Writing Malaysia” issue of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Bernice Chauly, Once We Were There, Epigram, 2017. 368 pgs. Bernice Chauly’s Once We Were There is a…
![[REVIEW] “A Story of Many Faces: Bernice Chauly’s 𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑊𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒” by Maheen Haider](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bernice-chauly_once-we-were-there.png?w=1024)
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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.} Phill Provance, A Plan in Case of Morning, Vine Leaves Press, 2020. 78 pgs. Editors’ note: This title will be…
![[REVIEW] “A Profound Sense of Growth: Phill Provance’s A Plan in Case of Morning” by Quenntis Ashby](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/phill-provance-a-plan-in-case-of-morning-1.jpg?w=532)
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{Written by Kiran Bhat, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Christopher New, Chinese Spring, Contraband, 2019. 279 pgs. There is a reason why, in certain cultures, we view life as…
![[REVIEW] “Ebbs and Flows of History: A Review of Christopher New’s Chinese Spring” by Kiran Bhat](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/chinese-spring_christopher-new.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Cyril Camus, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Zou Tao (author), Timothy Gouldthorp (translator), The Fox Spirit of Bluestone Mountain, Camphor Press, 2020. 228 pgs. Húlí yuán quán zhuàn…
![[REVIEW] “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑥 𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛: Female Force, Bridges from Zhiguai to Novel, and a Royal Rumble of Myth” by Cyril Camus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the-fox-spirit-of-bluestone-mountain-zou-tao-translated-by-timothy-gouldthorp.jpg?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.} Jung Chang, Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China, Penguin Random House, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “The World for One Family: A Review of Jung Chang’s 𝐵𝑖𝑔 𝑆𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑅𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/big-sister-little-sister-red-sister-three-women-at-the-heart-of-twentieth-century-china-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Phill Provance, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, An Extraterrestrial in Hong Kong, Musical Stone Publishing, 2018. 45 pgs. If any one line hints at…
![[REVIEW] “The Art of Alienation: A Review of Tammy Lai-Ming Ho’s 𝐴𝑛 𝐸𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔” by Phill Provance](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/an-extraterrestrial-in-hong-kong-1.jpg?w=969)
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{Written by Amanda Chan, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Cyril Wong, This Side of Heaven, Epigram Books, 2020. 176 pgs. Fire is mesmerising in the way that flames flicker…
![[REVIEW] “Tales from Life and the Afterlife: Cyril Wong’s 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑆𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛” by Amanda Chan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cyril-wong_this-side-of-heaven-1.jpg?w=798)
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The Untranslatability of my Udon Breakfast by Belle Ling 7 a.m. space-probes in a pool. Morning is a container within another container. Every day keeps its stomach low, its mouth takes in whatever it is given. “Do you need half…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “The Untranslatability of my Udon Breakfast” by Belle Ling](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/udon.jpg?w=486)
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When Lovers Die by Paul Rozario-Falcone I actually had had a date that evening. A handsome waiter from a few meals the week before had looked me up on Facebook and sent a friend request. He knew I had recently…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “When Lovers Die” by Paul Rozario-Falcone](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/silent-metal-creatures.jpeg?w=1024)
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“The Writing Life Beyond COVID-19: A Virtual Residency” was co-organised by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and the newly founded Mongrel Writers Residence™, featuring SEVEN Hong Kong-based writers and Cha contributors and SIX transnational writers, who are graduates and students…
![[EXCLUSIVE] The Writing Life Beyond COVID-19: A Virtual Residence (3-9 August 2020)—Videos](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the-writing-life-beyond-covid-19_a-virtual-residence.jpg?w=1024)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] Every Encounter Is A Fated Event by Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong Kong—Sunday 9 August 2020 }}} The number of COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong today is 72. The…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Every Encounter Is A Fated Event” (Sunday 9 August 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/seven-sisters-temple-1.jpg?w=952)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] Mild Trypophobia by Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong Kong—Saturday 8 August 2020 }}} The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases today: 69. This afternoon in Central, walking past H Queen’s, the eye-catching tower…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Mild Trypophobia” (Saturday 8 August 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/shek-kip-mei_by-oliver-farry.jpg?w=1024)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] Focused On Their Own Steps by Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong Kong—Friday 7 August 2020 }}} Eighty-nine new confirmed COVID-19 cases today. Since working from home, my activities have…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Focused On Their Own Steps” (Friday 7 August 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/buildings-in-hong-kong_oliver-farry.jpg?w=1024)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] Beckoning Her Children by Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong Kong—Thursday 6 August 2020 }}} The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is 95 today. It was raining for days on end and…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Beckoning Her Children” (Thursday 6 August 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cat.jpg?w=1024)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] A Bridge Builder by Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong Kong—Wednesday 5 August 2020 }}} The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases today in Hong Kong is 83. It rained from…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “A Bridge Builder” (Wednesday 5 August 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/hung-hom-by-oliver-farry.jpg?w=1024)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] The Year Made Famous by Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong Kong—Tuesday 4 August 2020 }}} The number of COVID-19 cases today is 80, the same as yesterday’s. The security…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “The Year Made Famous” (Tuesday 4 August 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/coffee-by-oliver-farry.jpg?w=1024)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] A Triumphant Knight by Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong Kong—Monday 3 August 2020 }}} The number of COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong is 80, about two-thirds of yesterday’s. At the…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “A Triumphant Knight” (Monday 3 August 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/japnaese-restaurant_sham-shui-po_oliver-farry.jpg?w=1024)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] Untraceable by Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong Kong—Sunday 2 August 2020 }}} Confirmed COVID-19 cases today: 115. This is the 12th consecutive day the number has been more than…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Untraceable” (Sunday 2 August 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/wanchai.jpeg?w=959)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] The Human Touch Relies Firmly on the Human Factor by Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong Kong—Saturday 1 August 2020 }}} 124 confirmed COVID-19 cases. The No. 3 Typhoon Signal remained…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “The Human Touch Relies Firmly on the Human Factor” (Saturday 1 August 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/picture-by-oliver-farry.jpg?w=1024)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] Disappearing into the Vast Main by Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong Kong—Friday 31 July 2020 }}} The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is 121. Consecutive days of intense heat;…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Disappearing into the Vast Main” (Friday 31 July 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/disappearing-into-the-vast-main.jpg?w=960)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] Moved to Tears by Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong Kong—Thursday 30 July 2020 }}} 149 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Hong Kong; another record-breaking day… Yesterday, the government enforced…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Moved to Tears” (Thursday 30 July 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cha-an-asian-literary-journal.jpg?w=1024)
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Editors’ note: Oliver Farry was one of the speakers at Cha‘s “Writing COVID-19” (Thursday 30 July 2020). He read this piece written specifically for the event. On the face of it, COVID-19 was a boon of sorts for the writer.…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Writing COVID-19” by Oliver Farry](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/oliver-farry-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Kayla Cadenas, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kawika Guillermo, All Flowers Bloom, Westphalia Press, 2020. 356 pgs. What can a love story become in the middle of…
![[REVIEW] “The Mortality of Undying Love: Kawika Guillermo’s All Flowers Bloom” by Kayla Cadenas](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/all-flowers-bloom_westphalia-press-1.png?w=795)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Amy L. Atchison and Shauna L. Shames, Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics, Columbia University Press, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “Not Definitive: A Review of Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/survide-and-resist_amy-l-atchison-shauna-l-shames.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by David W. Landrum, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wu Sheng (author), John Balcom (translator). My Village: Selected Poems 1972-2014, Zephyr Press, 2020. 188 pgs. Poets ancient and modern,…
![[REVIEW] “Land, Plants, Weather, and People: The Poetry of Wu Sheng” by David W. Landrum](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/wu-sheng_my-village-selected-poems.jpg?w=1024)
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