Category: 2017 Books
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Hisham Matar,Β The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between,Β Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2016, 256 pgs.Β You walk into a memoir anticipating something deeply personal. You expect to encounter…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βSamrat Upadhyay’s Mad Country: To Adapt and Thrive in the Chaosβ by Abhinav Tulachan Samrat Upadhyay, Mad Country, Soho Press, 2017. 304 pgs. Abhinav Tulachan’s copy of Mad Country Following…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Before TSMC and Same-Sex Marriage: Qiu Miaojin’s Notes of a Crocodile” by Glen Loveland Qiu Miaojin (author), Bonnie Huie (translator), Notes of a Crocodile, NYRB Classics, 2017, 256 pgs. To…
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Riverhead Books, 2017. 288 pgs. In almost every literary discussion I have had with fellow readers, whenever South Asian literature has been mentioned, Kamila Shamsieβs…
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Felicia Chan, Cosmopolitan Cinema: Cross-Cultural Encounters in East Asian Film, Bloomsbury, 2017. 224 pgs. Cosmopolitanism envisions an alluring and egalitarian promise: a world founded on, inclusively open to, and…
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Dina Nayeri, Refuge, Riverhead Books, 2017. 336 pgs. Home does not always represent comfort or safety. Often, it becomes a place from where you need to flee. I am…
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{Written by Frances An, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Rosemary Roberts and Li Li (editors), The Making and Remaking of Chinaβs Red Classics: Politics, Aesthetics, and Mass Culture, Hong Kong University…
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![[REVIEW] “Before TSMC and Same-Sex Marriage: Qiu Miaojin’s πππ‘ππ ππ π πΆππππππππ” by Glen Loveland](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/qiu.crocodile.hires2-copy.jpg?w=990)
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βThe Politics of Love: Kamila Shamsieβs π»πππ πΉπππβ by Fathima M](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/home-fire-a-novel-by-kamila-shamsie.jpg?w=993)
![[REVIEW] βWhen Cosmopolitanism Traverses Across the Screen Beyond SubtitlesβFelicia Chan’s πΆππ πππππππ‘ππ πΆπππππ: πΆπππ π -πΆπ’ππ‘π’πππ πΈππππ’ππ‘πππ ππ πΈππ π‘ π΄π πππ πΉπππβ by Kathy Nguyen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/east-asian-cinema.jpg?w=980)
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βIn Perpetual Transit: Dina Nayeriβs π
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![[REVIEW] “Amid Corrupt Cultural Landscapes: A Review of The Making and Remaking of Chinaβs Red Classics” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/the-making-and-remaking-of-chinas-red-classics-politics-aesthetics-and-mass-culture.png?w=1024)