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On Saturday 21 April 2018, the Education Bureau and SCOLAR (Standing Committee on Language Education and Research) co-organised the 2018 World Book Day Fest. It is a full-day event that promotes reading in Hong Kong. . Cha editors Tammy Ho…
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Stephanie Han, Swimming in Hong Kong, Willow Spring Books, 2017. 134 pgs. On the surface, “Swimming in Hong…
![[REVIEW] “Connection and Marginalisation: Stephanie Han’s 𝑆𝑤𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔” by Kate Rogers](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/swimming-in-hong-kong1.png?w=630)
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In partnership with Cha, I had the honour of visiting Fukien Secondary School in Kwun Tong to work with students on their short story writing skills. A group of 14 students selected from different class groups came together to develop…
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The auditory cortex is the part of the brain that performs the basic and higher functions of hearing such as language switching. In the case of an Asian English poet, a historical collocation of multilingual sounds likely interplays forcefully in…
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I ran a creative writing workshop as part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series for a small group of asylum seekers from Rwanda, Somalia, Egypt, and the Philippines on Saturday 14 April 2018. Asylum seekers come to Hong Kong to…
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HONG KONG STUDIES—Issue 3 (Spring 2019) Call for Papers—Special Section on Orientalism Forty Years on; and General Research Papers The first bilingual and interdisciplinary academic journal on Hong Kong, Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press), is now accepting articles for…
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I presented a 90 minute poetry workshop, “Things I Love and Hate” on Friday 23 March 2018 for refugee women. The workshop was requested by the Christian Action Centre for Refugees as part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership…
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We are happy to announce that in September 2018 Cha will be publishing a special “Writing Singapore” issue. Submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and art are accepted between 1 April 2018 and 30 June 2018. If you have something original, bizarre, daring…
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{Written by Goh Cheng Fai Zach, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Malachi Edwin Vethamani (author), Complicated Lives, Maya Press, 2016. 112 pgs. Malachi Edwin Vethamani (editor), Malchin…
![[REVIEW] “A Review of Two Books of Malaysian Poetry: 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 and 𝑀𝑎𝑙𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡” by Goh Cheng Fai Zach](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/malachi-edwin-vethamani.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wesley Leon Aroozoo (author), Miki Hawkinson (translator), I Want to Go Home, Math Paper Press, 2017. 222 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Memory, Trauma, Love: Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s 𝐼 𝑊𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝐺𝑜 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒／帰りたい” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/i-want-to-go-home.png?w=833)
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{Written by Kevin Tan Kwan Wei, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Warran Kalasegaran, Lieutenant Kurosawa’s Errand Boy, Epigram Books, 2017. 336 pgs. Warran Kalasegaran’s debut novel, Lieutenant…
![[REVIEW] “Burying the Spoils of War: Warran Kalsegaran’s 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝐾𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑤𝑎’𝑠 𝐸𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑜𝑦” by Kevin Tan Kwan Wei](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ebfp-errandboy_cvf_300_1024x1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Grace Chia, this review is part of Issue 39 (March 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Jang Hoon (director), A Taxi Driver (Taeksi Woonjunsa), 2017. 137 min. A Taxi Driver is set during the…
![[REVIEW] “Becoming a Hero: Jang Hoon’s A Taxi Driver” by Grace Chia](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/driver.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Matt Turner, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Paul French, Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day, Penguin, 2017. 116 pgs. Most general summaries of Shanghai are too…
![[Review] Shanghai Swan Song: Paul French’s Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/bloody-saturday.jpg?w=400)
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{Written by Vivian Tang, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Chung Man Yee (director), And I Hate You So (Siu chan chan), 2000. 96 min. At the start…
![[Review] Vinyl Love: Chung Man Yee’s And I Hate You So](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/siu-chan-chan-hong-kong-movie-poster.jpg?w=500)
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{Written by Wong Wen Pu, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Boey Kim Cheng, Gull Between Heaven and Earth, Epigram Books, 2017. 288 pgs. The Chinese are never…
![[Review] Longing for Home: Boey Kim Cheng’s Gull Between Heaven and Earth](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/gull1.png?w=331)
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{Written by Brian Haman, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mohamed Latiff Mohamed (author), Nazry Bahrawi (translator), Lost Nostalgia, Ethos Books, 2017. 200 pgs. One of modernity’s defining…
![[REVIEW] “There Is Much that His Narratives Can Offer the World: Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s 𝐿𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑁𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑔𝑖𝑎” by Brian Haman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/lost_big.jpg?w=660)
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Written by Jason S Polley. WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong Ltd. was officially registered in 2011 as a non-profit and charitable organisation and its primary objective is to support the capacity building and empowerment of migrant communities regardless of nationalities and…
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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wu He (author), Michael Berry (translator), Remains of Life, Columbia University Press, 2017. 352 pgs. Remains of…
![[REVIEW] “Remembering the Musha Incident: Wu He’s 𝑅𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/remains.jpg?w=350)
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{Written by Rochelle Potkar, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kate Rogers, Out of Place, Aeolous House, 2017. 65 pgs. Kate Rogers’ latest collection of poetry, Out of…
![[REVIEW] The Solution Is to Read Slowly: Kate Rogers’s Out of Place](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/out-of-place1.jpg?w=311)
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{Written by Matt Turner, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kaitlin Solimine, Empire of Glass, Ig Publishing, 2017. 297 pgs. When Wang Guanmiao, future husband of Huang Li-ming,…
![[Review] Revolutionary Practice: Kaitlin Solimine’s Empire of Glass](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/empire-of-glass1.png?w=417)
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{Written by Maja Milatovic, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Lachlan Brown, Lunar Inheritance, Giramondo Publishing Company, 2017. 96 pgs. Questions of identity and self-definition hold a special…
![[REVIEW] “Shifting Terrains: Movement and Identity in Lachlan Brown’s 𝐿𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑟 𝐼𝑛ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒” by Maja Milatovic](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/lunar-inheritance_brown.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} 📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Henry Wei Leung, Goddess of Democracy:…
![[REVIEW] “Eloquence, Anger, Sincerity—Henry Wei Leung’s 𝐺𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑦: 𝐴𝑛 𝑂𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑝𝑦 𝐿𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑐” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/leung-goddess-cover-21.jpg?w=900)
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{Written by Mark Stevenson, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nguyễn Hưng Quốc and Nhã Thuyên (editors), Poems of Lê Văn Tài, Nguyễn Tôn Hiệt & Phan Quỳnh…
![[Review] Three Vietnamese Voices in Australia: Poems of Lê Văn Tài, Nguyễn Tôn Hiệt & Phan Quỳnh](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/vagabond.jpg?w=450)
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{Written by Eleanor Goodman, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Richard Berengarten, Changing, Shearsman Books, 2016, 563 pgs. What should one make of the Yijing (易經), that book that…
![[REVIEW] “Rich and Varied: Richard Berengarten’s 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔” by Eleanor Goodman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/yi.jpg?w=680)
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{Written by Amanda Cattel, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Ang Lee. Ang Lee (director), Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nü), 1994. 123…
![[REVIEW] “The Recipe for Embracing Biformity: Ang Lee’s 𝐸𝑎𝑡 𝐷𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑀𝑎𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛” by Amanda Cattel](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/meal.jpg?w=800)
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Many thanks to our workshop facilitator, Collier Nogues! Our very first workshop under the Cha Writing Workshop Series initiative (in partnership with the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation) was conducted on Monday 22 January 2018 at Catholic Mission School, for…
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The 2018 “Backreading Hong Kong” symposium, co-organised by the Department of English at Hong Kong Baptist University and the literary journal Cha, will take place on Saturday 5 May 2018. We are particularly interested in papers that challenge existing interpretations of…
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We are very excited to announce that in September 2019 Cha will be publishing a special “Writing Vietnam” issue. The issue will be guest edited by Nhã Thuyên and Kaitlin Rees, who will be reading the submissions with co-editors Tammy Ho…
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We are happy to announce that in September 2018 Cha will be publishing a special “Writing Singapore” issue. The issue will be guest edited by Joshua Ip (poetry) and Eddie Tay (prose), who will be reading the submissions with co-editors Tammy Ho Lai-Ming and Jeff Zroback. Submissions of…
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We are happy to announce that in June 2018 Cha will be publishing a special “Writing the Philippines” issue. Submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and art are accepted between 1 January 2018 and 31 March 2018. If you have something original to say…
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