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In September 2014 and September 2016, we published special features on the Umbrella Movement in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. This year, again, we will be publishing a feature on the movement, five years on. We are looking for poetry,…
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{Written by Henrik Hoeg, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Joshua Ip, footnotes on falling, Math Paper Press, 2018. 70 pgs. Writing a review of a poetry collection…
![[REVIEW] “Why and How to Read Joshua Ip’s footnotes on falling” by Henrik Hoeg](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/footnotes-on-falling-1.jpeg?w=533)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Frank Langfitt, The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China, Public Affairs,…
![[Review] “When Past and Present Merge: Frank Langfitt’s The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/the-shanghai-free-taxi.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jennifer Anne Eagleton, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wayne Ng, Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu, Earnshaw Books, 2018. 280 pgs. Finding the…
![[Review] “Wayne Ng’s πΉππππππ π‘βπ πππ¦: π΄ πππ£ππ ππ πΏππ ππ§π’” by Jennifer Anne Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/finding-the-way_wayne-ng-1.png?w=544)
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{Written by David W. Landrum, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mao Xiang (author), Jan Fang and Lifang He (translators), The Romance of a Literatus and his Concubine…
![[REVIEW] “Love Among the Ruins: πβπ π
ππππππ ππ π πΏππ‘ππππ‘π’π πππ βππ πΆππππ’ππππ ππ πππ£πππ‘ππππ‘β-πΆπππ‘π’ππ¦ πΆβπππ” by David W. Landrum](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/the-romance-of-a-literatus-and-his-concubine-in-seventeenth-century-china-1.jpg?w=1024)
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Cantonese slang, puns, wordplay and sometimes even curse words have featured prominently in recent mass protests in Hong Kong. The creative and effective use of Cantonese has turned it into one of the defining characteristics and powerful tools of the…
![[Cha Reading Series] Cantonese: The Language of Protest (Wednesday 24 July 2019)](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/screenshot-2019-06-28-at-11.33.08.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Marsha McDonald, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Leanne Dunic, To Love the Coming End, Chin Music Press, 2017. 98 pgs. Leanne Dunic’s first novel, To…
![[REVIEW] “Remains Of: Leanne Dunic’s ππ πΏππ£π π‘βπ πΆπππππ πΈππ” by Marsha McDonald](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/to-love-the-coming-end-1.jpg?w=1024)
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NOTE: WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS. (Thursday 3 June 2021) We are happy to announce that we are now accepting submissions for Issue 46βTwelfth Anniversary Issueβof Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, scheduled for publication in December 2019.Β Submissions of…
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HONG KONG CREATIVE CULTURES: A HKS SYMPOSIUM The word βcreativityβ is sometimes used as a buzzword linking the imagination with the activities of profit-making enterprises. It has been used to gloss over exploitative aspects of contemporary capitalism, linking free-wheeling consumerism…
![[Call for Abstracts] Hong Kong Creative Cultures: A HKS Symposium](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/creative.jpg?w=1024)
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{“A Letter to My Son” will be included in the “Tiananmen Thirty Years On” feature of the June 2019 issue of Cha.} Dear Meatball, Sorry I havenβt written in so long. Although, for you, reading this, itβs probably no more…
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{Written by Andrew Barker, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Henrik Hoeg, Away with Words: Poetry and Translations, CreateSpace, 2018. 122 pgs. Away With Words: Poems and TranslationsΒ by…
![[Review] Getting into an Argument with Away with Words: Poems and Translation by Henrik Hoeg](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/away-with-words_henrik-hoeg.jpg?w=960)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Zak Dychtwald, Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World, St. Martin’s Press,…
![[REVIEW] “Brave New China: Zak Dychtwald’s πππ’ππ πΆβπππ: π»ππ€ π‘βπ π
ππ π‘πππ π πΊππππππ‘πππ ππππ πΆβππππ πβπππ πΆππ’ππ‘ππ¦ πππ π‘βπ πππππ” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/young-china-how-the-restless-generation-will-change-their-country-and-the-world.jpg?w=1024)
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ββββ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) ChaΒ andΒ PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue:Β Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Kate Rogers’s “Twenty…
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ββββ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) ChaΒ andΒ PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue:Β Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Lian-Hee Wee’s “Duckgate…
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ββββ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) ChaΒ andΒ PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue:Β Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Ng Mei Kwan’s…
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ββββ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) ChaΒ andΒ PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue:Β Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Ian Johnson’s The…
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ββββ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) ChaΒ andΒ PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue:Β Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Liu Xiaobo’s “For…
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ββββ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) ChaΒ andΒ PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue:Β Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Guo Ting’s…
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ββββ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On ChaΒ andΒ PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue:Β Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Donald Justice’s “Thin Man” Milan Kundera’sΒ The Book of Laughter…
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{Written by Aakriti Kuntal, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Kiriti Sengupta. Kiriti Sengupta, Rituals, Hawakal Publishers, 2019. 100 pgs. Rituals, Kiriti Sengupta’s newest…
![[Review] “Ethereal Algorithms of Life: Kiriti Sengupta’s Rituals” by Aakriti Kuntal](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/kiriti-sengupta_rituals-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Lindsay Shen, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jason Wee, An Epic of Durable Departures, Math Paper Press, 2018. 85 pgs. Jason Wee’s Epic of Durable…
![[REVIEW] “Jason Wee’s An Epic of Durable Departures” by Lindsay Shen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/epic-of-durable-departments_jason-wee.jpg?w=1024)
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On Tuesday 30 April 2019, I went to Wah Yan College, in Mongkok, to hold Cha reading workshop for a group of Junior Secondary students. Wah Yan is a Catholic boys school, which has two branches, one on the Hong…
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{Written by David Haysom, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Can Xue (author), Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (translator), Love in the New Millennium, Yale University Press, 2018. 288 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Delightful Absurdities: Can Xue’s πΏππ£π ππ π‘βπ πππ€ πππππππππ’π” by David Haysom](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/new-love.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Stephen Davies, Strong to Save: Maritime Mission in Hong Kong, from Whampoa Reach to the Mariners’ Club, City…
![[Review] “Strong to Save: Maritime Mission in Hong Kong, from Whampoa Reach to the Mariners’ Club” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/strong-to-save-maritime-mission-in-hong-kong-from-whampoa-reach-to-the-mariners-club.jpg?w=1024)
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This piece will be included in Issue 45 (August 2019) of Cha. βWriting speculative fictions allows me to free myself from boring daily routines,β said British writer Natasha Pulley, one of the invited authors at the 2019 International Writersβ Workshop…
![[Report] “Speculative Fictions: More than Speculation” by Jerry Pun](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sci-fi-as-social-critique.jpg?w=1024)
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NOTE: We are still accepting submissions of photography & art for the “Tiananmen Thirty Years On” feature. Deadline: Monday 20 May 2019. 4 June 2019 will mark thirty years since the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, when the Chinese government…
![[Call for Submissions] “Tiananmen Thirty Years On” Feature (June 2019)](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/candle-vigil.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Ka-chi Cheuk, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Gao Xingjian (author), Gilbert C. F. Fong (translator), Wandering Mind and Metaphysical Thoughts, The Chinese University Press,…
![[REVIEW] “The Hedgehog and the Worm: Gao Xingjian’s πππππππππ ππππ πππ πππ‘ππβπ¦π ππππ πβππ’πβπ‘π ” by Michael Ka-chi Cheuk](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gao-xingjian.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Pinky Lui Chung-Man, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Marshall Moore, Inhospitable, Camphor Press, 2018. 302 pgs. Ghosts are real in Marshall Moore’s Inhospitable. Either as…
![[Review] “Ghosts in the Flesh: Marshall Moore’s Inhospitable” by Pinky Lui Chung-Man](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/inhospitable_moore.jpg?w=1024)
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[Header: Cover image of the September 2016 (Issue 33) of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.] Strangers on the Praia [original link] byΒ Paul French It was the names that intrigued me. Strange β¦ foreign, not what you expect when searching the…
![[Archive: September 2016 (Issue 33)] “Strangers on the Praia” by Paul French](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cha-sept-2016-issue-33.jpg?w=960)
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Due to unforeseen reasons, the “Writing Vietnam” issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, originally scheduled for publication in September 2019, will be postponed to 2021. In light of this change, below is our new publication plan for the rest…
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