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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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{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.} Sarge Lacuesta, A Waiting Room Companion, BUGHAW, 2017. 188 pgs. As I looked at the cover of A…
![[REVIEW] “Poor, Rich Kid: Sarge Lacuesta’s A Waiting Room Companion” by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/A-Waiting-Room-Companion_Sarge-Lacuesta.jpg?w=1024)
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This Cha and WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong Ltd. 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 Sunday 11…
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{Written by Grace Chia, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Liu Yiqing (compiler), ZhenJun Zhang (editor and translator), Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the…
![[Review] “Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic” by Grace Chia](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hidden-and-Visible-Realms-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wendy Chen, Unearthings, Tavern Books, 2018. 104 pgs. In her debut poetry collection Unearthings, Wendy Chen muses on…
![[Review] “Reading History Slowly: Wendy Chen’s Unearthings” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Unearthings-1.jpg?w=386)
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We are very excited to announce that, for the first time, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal will be publishing a special feature devoted entirely to Asian voices. The feature, to be published in June 2019, is entitled “Auditory Cortex”, and it…
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tarō Naka (author), Andrew Houwen and Chikako Nihei (translators), Music: Selected Poems, Isobar Press, 2018. 138 pgs. Tarō…
![[REVIEW] “Take on the Challenge: Tarō Naka’s 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐: 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑠” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Music_Selected-Poems.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Artemis Lin, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Bi Gan (director), Kaili Blues (Lu bian ye can), 2015. 113 min. What is a place? Is it…
![[Review] “Forging Dreams Through Time: Bi Gan’s Kaili Blues” by Artemis Lin](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Kaili-Blues.png?w=1024)
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[Review] “Unravelling Taiwan: Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman’s Formosa Moon” by Joyce Lau
{Written by Joyce Lau, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman, Formosa Moon, ThingsAsian Press, 2018. 336 pgs. Smangus, the most remote village…
![[Review] “Unravelling Taiwan: Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman’s Formosa Moon” by Joyce Lau](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Formosa-Moon_Asian-Cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Zeny May Dy Recidoro, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane (editors), Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval…
![[REVIEW] “The Liberated Mind: 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝐴𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑠: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales” by Zeny May Dy Recidoro](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Monsters-Animals-and-Other-Worlds-A-Collection-of-Short-Medieval-Japanese-Tales-1.jpg?w=350)
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{Written by Swathi Parasuraman, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, 2017. 240 pgs. I remember reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist two years ago.…
![[REVIEW] “A Refugee Love Story: Moshin Hamid’s 𝐸𝑥𝑖𝑡 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡” by Swathi Parasuraman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/exit-west_asian-cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Daryl Lim Wei Jie, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Yang Mu (author), Michelle Yeh (editor), Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems, Columbia University Press, 2018.…
![[REVIEW] “Yang Mu’s Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems” by Daryl Lim Wei Jie](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/hawk-of-the-mind1.jpg?w=900)
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{Written by Angela Qian, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Natsume Sōseki. John Nathan, Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist, Columbia University Press, 2018. 344…
![[REVIEW] Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/sc58dseki.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by James Au Kin-Pong, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (author), Phyllis I. Lyons (translator), In Black and White, Columbia University Press, 2018. 256 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Between Fiction and Reality: Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s In Black and White” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/in-black-and-white1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this rejoinder is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read Susan Blumberg-Kason’s review of Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions here and Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz’s response…
![[Review] “Letter to the Editors” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/little-reunionse28094cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz, this rejoinder is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read Susan Blumberg-Kason’s review of Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions here and her response to…
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Rochelle Potkar, Paper Asylum, Copper Coin, 2018. 103 pgs. ❀ Rochelle Potkar, Four Degrees of Separation, Paperwall Media, 2016.…
![[REVIEW] In the Country Where I Live: Two Collections by Rochelle Potkar](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/befunky-collage-24.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Paoi Wilmer, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Chi Pang-yuan (author), John Balcom (translator), The Great Flowing River: A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan,…
![[REVIEW] “Chi Pang-yuan’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟: 𝐴 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎, 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑎 𝑡𝑜 𝑇𝑎𝑖𝑤𝑎𝑛” by Paoi Wilmer](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-great-flowing-river1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Nina Powles, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nashua Gallagher, All the Words a Stage, Chameleon Press, 2018. 102 pgs. “They place me in new soil…
![[Review] There’s No Place Like Home: Nashua Gallagher’s All the Words a Stage](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/nashua-gallagher_all-the-words-a-stage.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by John W. Steele, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jenna Le, A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora, Indolent Books, 2018. 94 pgs. In this stunning…
![[Review] An Anatomy of Trauma: Jenna Le’s A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/jenna-le-a-history-of-the-cetacean-american-diaspora.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Maialen Marin-Lacarta, this review is part of Issue 42 (December 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Aili Mu (translator and editor) with Mike Smith (contributor), Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories: A Parallel Text, Columbia University…
![[REVIEW] “Spreading the Genre: A review of 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡-𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by Maialen Marin-Lacarta](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cha_review_contemporary-chinese-short-short-stories.jpg?w=1024)
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I was delighted to be invited by Maryknoll Convent School (Secondary Section) to offer three rounds of one-hour poetry writing workshops as part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series. I taught fourth, fifth and sixth form students on 15, 26…
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read a response from the translators of Little Reunions, Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz here and…
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{Written by Ronald Torrance, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Su Tong (author), Jane Weizhen Pan (translator) and Martin Merz (translator), Petulia’s Rouge Tin, Penguin, 2018. 106 pgs.…
![[Review] “Preserving the Unspoken Past: Su Tong’s Petulia’s Rouge Tin” by Ronald Torrance](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/9780734399496.jpg?w=400)
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kawika Guillermo, Stamped: An Anti-travel Novel, Westphalia, 2018. 360 pgs. He understood that need to escape, but…
![[REVIEW] “‘So punk in drublic’; or, ‘Stepping in her footprints to erase your being here’—Kawika Guillermo’s Stamped: An Anti-travel Novel” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/stamped1.jpg?w=313)
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I have had the pleasure of conducting a poetry writing workshop, part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, at St. Rose of Lima’s College on Wednesday 24 October 2018 at the invitation of Ms. Ivy Ng, the panel chairperson at the…
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The first bilingual and interdisciplinary academic journal on Hong Kong, Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press), is now accepting general research articles on Hong Kong for Issue 4 (scheduled for publication in Fall 2019). . We welcome papers from multiple…
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While the word “community” is more often than not suffused with a benevolent glow, connoting the virtues purportedly associated with groups of people—shared values and heritage, constancy and solidarity—“neighbourhood” is a term that has a more ambiguous, even troublesome, valency.…
![[Call for Abstracts] The Neighbourhood—A HKS Symposium](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/neighbourhood.jpg?w=820)
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::::: We have extended the period of submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and photography & art to the “Writing Macau” issue to 31 January 2019. ::::: We are very pleased to announce that in April 2019 Cha will be publishing a…
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