Category: 2018 Books
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βBetween Adaptation and Escapism: Navigating Entrapment in Ling Maβs Severanceβ by Hilda Wong Ling Ma, Severance, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. 304 pgs. In an era defined by burnout and quiet…
![[REVIEW] βBetween Adaptation and Escapism: Navigating Entrapment in Ling Maβs πππ£ππππππβ by Hilda Wong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ling-ma-severance2.jpg?w=970)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βThe Mountains Speak: The Himalayan Arc” by Abhinav Tulachan Namita Gokhale (editor), The Himalayan Arc: Journeys East of South-east, HarperCollins India, 2018. 352 pgs. Namche Bazaar has always been my…
![[REVIEW] βThe Mountains Speak: πβπ π»ππππππ¦ππ π΄ππβ by Abhinav Tulachan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/namche-bazaar-the-himalayan-arc-journeys-east-of-south-east-copy.jpg?w=695)
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πRETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ming-sho Ho, Challenging Beijingβs Mandate of Heaven: Taiwanβs Sunflower Movement and Hong Kongβs Umbrella Movement, Temple University Press, 2018. 270 pgs. Ming-sho Hoβs Challenging Beijingβs Mandate of Heaven compares…
![[REVIEW] βRadicals, Realists, and RevolutionsβA Tale of Two Movements: Ming-sho Hoβs πΆβπππππππππ π΅ππππππβπ ππππππ‘π ππ π»πππ£ππβ by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/this-is-just-the-begining.jpg?w=720)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Hiro Arikawa (author), Philip Gabriel (translator), The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Berkley, 2018. 277 pgs. Hiro Arikawaβs The Travelling Cat Chronicles, translated by Philip Gabriel, is a heart-warming book that…
![[REVIEW] βOut Beyond the Horizon: Hiro Arikawaβs πβπ ππππ£ππππππ πΆππ‘ πΆβππππππππ β by Hui-Hua Lu](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/screenshot-2024-08-28-at-15.31.04.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS David L. Eng and Shinhee Han, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans, Duke University Press, 2018. 232 pgs. Asian Americans are…
![[REVIEW] “A Groundbreaking Conversation: David L. Eng and Shinhee Han’s π
πππππ ππππππβππππ, π
πππππ π·ππ π πππππ‘πππ” by Elaine Chiew](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/racial-melancholia-racial-dissociation-on-the-social-and-psychic-lives-of-asian-americans.jpg?w=1000)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMΒ Ken Provencher and Mike Dillon (editors), Exploiting East Asian Cinemas: Genre, Circulation, Reception, Bloomsbury, 2018. 234 pgs. In the early 2000s, unless you lived in a city in the…
![[REVIEW] βExtreme AsiaβA Review of πΈπ₯πππππ‘πππ πΈππ π‘ π΄π πππ πΆππππππ : πΊππππ, πΆππππ’πππ‘πππ, π
πππππ‘πππ” by Mario Rustan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/exploiting-east-asian-cinemas-genre-circulation.jpg?w=568)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, Atlantic Books, 2018. 272 pgs. Meena Kandasamyβs When I Hit You, Or Portrait…
![[REVIEW] βPersonal Yet Communal Narrative of Meena Kandasamyβs πβππ πΌ π»ππ‘ πππ’: ππ, π΄ ππππ‘ππππ‘ ππ π‘βπ ππππ‘ππ ππ π πππ’ππ ππππβ by Bervinder Kaur](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/when-i-hit-you.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things, Penguin, 2018. 352 pgs. The best book purchases are those of volumes discovered serendipitously on a shop shelf, just as the best…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βCraft Work: Soetsu Yanagiβs πβπ π΅πππ’π‘π¦ ππ πΈπ£πππ¦πππ¦ πβππππ β by Oliver Farry](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/onta-ware-collected-by-yanagi-soetsu.jpg?w=1024)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yan Ge (author), Nicky Harman (translator), The Chilli Bean Paste Clan, Balestier Press, 2018. 278 pgs. Xue Shengqiang really has it tough. As head of the family, itβs his responsibility…
![[REVIEW] “The Numbing Funk of Desire: Yan Ge’s πβπ πΆβππππ π΅πππ πππ π‘π πΆπππ” by Kyle Muntz](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/the-chilli-bean-paste-clan.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mang Ke (author), Lucas Klein, Huang Yibing and Jonathan Stalling (translators), October Dedications: Selected Poetry of Mang Ke, Zephyr Press, 2018. 152 pgs. This summer, all five floors of the National Art…
![[REVIEW] “Shockingly Direct and Heterodox: Mang Ke’s πππ‘ππππ π·ππππππ‘ππππ ” by David Harrison Horton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/october-dedications_mang-ke.png?w=994)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} β Ho Chee Lick and Anne Lee Tzu Pheng, Common Life: Drawings and Poems, Ethos Books, 2018. 191 pgs.β Elaine Woo, Put Your Hand in Mine, Signature Editions, 2019. 91 pgs. Each time I…
![[REVIEW] “In Search of the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: A Review of Ho Chee Lick and Anne Lee Tzu Pheng’s πΆπππππ πΏπππ and Elaine Woo’s ππ’π‘ πππ’π π»πππ ππ ππππ” by Stephanie Studzinski](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/common-life_put-your-hand-in-mine-1.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books andΒ Films.} Kang Kyeong-ae (author), Anton Hur (translator), The Underground Village, Honford Star, 2018. 288 pgs. The Underground Village is a collection of short stories by one of colonial Koreaβs pioneer female authors, Kang Kyeong-ae, translated…
![[REVIEW] βLamentable Conditions and the Decrepit Body: A Review of Kang Kyeong-aeβs πβπ πππππππππ’ππ πππππππβ by Suhasini Patni](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/the-underground-village-kang-kyeong-ae-1.png?w=718)
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{Written by Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 46 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, City University of Hong Kong Press,…
![[REVIEW] “A Catalyst for Repealing Anti-Gay Statutes: Reviewing Nigel Collett’s π΄ π·πππ‘β ππ π»πππ πΎπππ” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/a-death-in-hong-kong_nigel-collett.jpeg?w=683)
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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 π΄ π·πππ‘β ππ π»πππ πΎπππ: πβπ ππππΏπππππ πΆππ π ππ 1980 πππ π‘βπ ππ’πππππ π πππ ππ π πππππππ” 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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{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 James Au Kin-Pong, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jun’ichirΕ Tanizaki (author), Phyllis I. Lyons (translator), In Black and White, Columbia University Press, 2018. 256 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Between Fiction and Reality: Jun’ichirΕ 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 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 πβπ πΊππππ‘ πΉπππ€πππ π
ππ£ππ: π΄ ππππππ ππ πΆβπππ, ππππ ππππβπ’πππ π‘π ππππ€ππ” by Paoi Wilmer](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-great-flowing-river1.jpg?w=1024)
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