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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue 45, rescheduled for publication in August 2019. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here. Deadline: 31…
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{Written by Aurelio Asiain, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Gergana Ivanova, Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic, Columbia University Press, 2018. 240…
![[Review] “An Incessantly Growing, Proliferating, Echoing Book: Gergana Ivanova’s 𝑈𝑛𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘” by Aurelio Asiain](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/unbinding-the-pillow-book-1.jpg?w=1024)
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The first bilingual and interdisciplinary academic journal on Hong Kong, Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press), is now accepting articles for a special issue, Gender and Sexuality on Hong Kong Screens, curated with Professor Gina Marchetti (HKU) and scheduled for…
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{Written by Dragoş Ilca, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sheng Keyi (author), Shelly Bryant (translator), Wild Fruit, Penguin, 2018. 350 pgs. Wild Fruit is split into three…
![[REVIEW] “Building It Up So That It May Fall Again: Sheng Keyi’s 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝐹𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑡” by Dragoş Ilca](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/wild-fruit-sheng-keyi-review.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Xu Xi, Insignificance, Typhoon Media/Signal 8 Press, 2018. 190 pgs. Compared to her previous work, the stories in…
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We are very pleased to announce that Joanna Lee’s story “Prawn Mee”, published in the April 2018 issue (Issue 39) of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, has been selected for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2018. Additionally, Rae Rival’s poem “Tiempo…
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{Written by Stephanie Studzinski, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Greg Santos, Blackbirds, Eyewear Publishing, 2018. 44 pgs. ❀ Anuradha Vijayakrishnan, The Who-Am-I Bird, Bombaykala Books, 2018. 70 pgs.…
![[Review] “Four Birds of a Far Flown Feather: Four Poetry Collections” by Stephanie Studzinski](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/stephanie-studzinski_cha-review.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Konstandinos Mahoney, Tutti Frutti, SPM Publications, 2018. 78 pgs. Tutti Frutti is a wonderful collection of condensed, original,…
![[REVIEW] “The Love Songs of Dino Mahoney” by Kate Rogers](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tutti-frutti_cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Claire Cuccio, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Makoto Ōoka (author), Janine Beichman (translator), Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets: Selected Poems, Kurodahan Press, 2018.…
![[Review] “Poetry Universe: Makoto Ōoka’s Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets: Selected Poems” by Claire Cuccio](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/beneath-the-sleepless_cha-review.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Carolyn Lau, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Huang Lihai (author), Kit Kelen and Chris Song (translators), feed birds rainbows, ASM and Cerberus Press, 2014. 132…
![[REVIEW] “On Three Bilingual Pocket Books by Poet-travellers” by Carolyn Lau](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/three-bilingual-books.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jason Y. Ng and Susan Blumberg-Kason (editors), Hong Kong Noir, Akashic and Blacksmith Books, 2018. 256 pgs. Elegiac…
![[REVIEW] “Hong Kong Noir” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/hong-kong-noir_cha.jpg?w=509)
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{Written by Mario Rustan, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Patrick H. Hase, Forgotten Heroes: San On County and its Magistrates in the Late Ming and Early Qing,…
![[Review] “Hong Kong Noir 1688: Patrick H. Hase’s Forgotten Heroes: San On County and its Magistrates in the Late Ming and Early Qing” by Mario Rustan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/forgotten-heroes_cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ivy Ngeow, Heart of Glass, Unbound Digital, 2018. 256 pgs. I was in New York in January for…
![[Review] “Love and Longing in Macau: Ivy Ngeow’s Heart of Glass” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/heart-of-glass_asian-cha-review.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ha Jin, The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai, Patheon, 2019. 320 pgs. From the pen of…
![[REVIEW] “Man of Letters: Ha Jin’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝐼𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙: 𝐴 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑖 𝐵𝑎𝑖” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/the-banished-immortal.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Wong Wen Pu, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Kirsten Han, The Silhouette of Oppression, Epigram Books, 2019. 48 pgs. ❀ Alfian Sa’at, A Manifesto for Arts…
![[REVIEW] “Rational Conversations: Some Essays on Political and Civic Sustainability in Singapore” by Wong Wen Pu](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/rational-conversations-2.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Ophelia Tung Ho Yiu, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Kit Kelen, As to the ladders of whichway, ASM, 2014. 165 pgs. ❀ Roger Palmer and Tim Simpson,…
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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Quelling the Demons’ Revolt: A Novel from Ming China, Luo Guanzhong (attributed author) Patrick Hanan (translator), Columbia…
![[REVIEW] “My Kind of Demons: 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑠’ 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑡: 𝐴 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/a-novel-from-ming-china.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} 📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yi T’aejun (author), Janet Poole (translator),…
![[Review] “Deep down he felt a little jealous of his own writing; or, time never passes as quickly as when holding a pen—Yi T’aejun’s 𝐷𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/dust-and-other-stories_asian-cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Gabrielle Flores, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Gina Apostol, Insurrecto, Soho Press, 2018. 336 pgs. It’s hard to begin a review for a novel that…
![[REVIEW] “The Frustrating Elegance of Gina Apostol’s 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜” by Gabrielle Flores](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gina-apostols-insurrecto.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jennifer Mackenzie, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Brian Castro & John Young, Macau Days, Art+Australia Publishing, 2017. 187 pgs. For more than five centuries, the…
![[Review] “A Trilingual History of Benevolence: Brian Castro & John Young’s 𝑀𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑢 𝐷𝑎𝑦𝑠” by Jennifer Mackenzie](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/macau-days_cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) 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,…
![[REVIEW] “Nigel Collett’s 𝐴 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑐𝐿𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 1980 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑆𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑙” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/a-death-in-hong-kong_cropped.jpg?w=1024)
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As part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership with the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation and supported by the English Departments at CUHK and HKBU, I have now taught nine 90-minute creative writing workshops for female refugees affiliated with the Christian…
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We are very pleased to announce that we have nominated the following three poems for the Hawker Prize 2019. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! “Mama Was Reciting from the Book of Revelation” by Jeffrey B. Javier (“Writing the…
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As part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership with the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation and supported by the English Departments at CUHK and HKBU, I visited students at the Shek Mun campus of the College of International Education (CIE),…
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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Christina Yi, Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea, Columbia University Press,…
![[REVIEW] “Uncontrollable Forces: Christina Yi’s 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒: 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐾𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑎” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/colonizing-language-1.png?w=384)
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4 June 2019 will mark thirty years since the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, when the Chinese government crushed the nascent democracy movement led by students and workers. The ensuing decades have brought tumultuous changes to the culture, politics,…
![[Call for Submissions] Special Feature on Tiananmen (June 2019)](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/candle-vigil.png?w=1024)
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This Cha and Stray Cats Jimusho event was part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership with the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation and supported by the English Departments at CUHK and HKBU, and it was conducted on Saturday 24 November 2018.…
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{This piece is part of the special section on Meng Lang in Issue 44 (June 2019) of Cha.} My friend Meng Lang passed away in Hong Kong on 12 December 2018 .The fact that I heard the news on my birthday (16…
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{Written by Chloe Leung, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Cheryl Pallant, Ginseng Tango, Big Table Publishing Company, 2017. 211 pgs. Ginseng: a slow-growing and energy-boosting plant found…
![[Review] “A Tangoed Soul with Tangled Roots: Cheryl Pallant’s Ginseng Tango” by Chloe Leung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ginseng-Tango.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Cindy Rinne, Quiet Lantern: A Novel in Verse, Turning Point Books, 2016. 116 pgs. ❀ Khairani Barokka, Rope, Nine…
![[REVIEW] “Soldiers of the Heart: Poetry by Cindy Rinne, Khairani Barokka and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta” by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Alana-Leilani-Teves-Cabrera-Narciso-1.jpg?w=1024)
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