Category: 2022 Books
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ho-fung Hung, City on the Edge: Hong Kong under China Rule, Cambridge University Press, 2022. 316 pgs. βPessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will.β Ho-fung Hungβs latest monograph, City…
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kevin Chen (author) and Darryl Sterk (translator),Β Ghost Town, Europa Editions, 2022. 384 pgs. Told from perspective of members of the Chen family, the plot and relationships in Kevin Chenβs…
![[REVIEW] “Omission and Superstition in Kevin Chenβs πΊβππ π‘ πππ€π” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ghost-town-1.png?w=984)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Bloom. Xi Chuan (author), Lucas Klein (translator), Bloom & Other Poems, New Directions. 2022. 204 pgs. In a conversation with the author Xu Zhiyuan, included in…
![[REVIEW] “New Skin, Old Bones: Xi Chuan’s π΅ππππ & ππ‘βππ πππππ ” by Theophilus Kwek](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/bloom-other-poems_lucas-klein_xi-chuan-1.png?w=972)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Michael Berry, Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary: Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 247 pgs. When Michael Berry took on the project of translating Fang Fangβs…
![[REVIEW] βAn Ode to Translation: Michael Berryβs πππππ πππ‘πππ, π·ππ ππππππππ‘πππ, πππ ππ’βππ π·πππ𦔠by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/translation-disinformation-and-wuhan-diary-anatomy-of-a-transpacific-cyber-campaign-1.png?w=1024)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “An (Im)possible Document: A Review of Karen Cheung’s The Impossible City” by Luca Griseri ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ The Impossible City. Karen Cheung, The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir, Penguin…
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on The Seven Moons. Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Penguin India, 2022. Nearly the first impression you get in The Seven Moon of Maali…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Wait Till You See it With Ghosts: Shehan Karunatilaka’s πβπ πππ£ππ πππππ ππ πππππ π΄ππππππ” by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida_shehan-karunatilaka.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Indelible City. Louisa Lim, Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, Text Publishing Melbourne Australia, 2022. 306 pgs. βThere is no escape from the horror…
![[REVIEW] “A Song of Despair, of Burning Rage: Louisa Lim’s πΌππππππππ πΆππ‘𦔠by James Thompson](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/indelible-city-louisa-lim-1.jpg?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Bloom. Xi Chuan (author), Lucas Klein (translator), Bloom & Other Poems, New Directions. 2022. 204 pgs. Back in 1973, Harold Bloom imagined a literary landscape…
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Lucy Hamilton, The Widening of Tolo Highway: A Hong Kong Story of Paranoia and Protest, Penguin Random House SEA, 2022. 236 pgs. When, one-third into a novel, you still…
![[REVIEW] βHong Kong as Method: Lucy Hamiltonβs πβπ ππππππππ ππ ππππ π»ππβπ€ππ¦β by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/the-widening-of-the-tolo-highway-1.jpg?w=426)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on The Impossible City. Karen Cheung, The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir, Penguin Random House, 2022. 352 pgs. Karen Cheungβs memoir, The Impossible City, opens by…
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ The Impossible City. Karen Cheung, The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir, Penguin Random House, 2022. 352 pgs. When I was younger, my friends would…
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Bloom. Xi Chuan (author), Lucas Klein (translator), Bloom & Other Poems, New Directions. 2022. 204 pgs. The bewitching voice that sears through this collection of…
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ The Seven Moons. Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Penguin India, 2022. This review is cross-published with Polity. A murdered journalist “awakens” in…
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Hongjian Wang, Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation, Cambria Press, 2020. pgs. 252. The modern notion of decadence developed from Montesquieuβs…
![[REVIEW] “Through the Lens of European Decadence: Hongjian Wang’s π·ππππππππ ππ ππππππ πΆβππππ π πΏππ‘ππππ‘π’ππ πππ πΆπ’ππ‘π’ππ” by Sabina Knight](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/decadence-in-modern-chinese-literature-and-culture-a-comparative-and-literary-historical-reevaluation-1.jpg?w=500)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Outstanding Translations of a Singular Poet: Yam Gong’s Moving a Stone” by Mary King Bradley and Matthew Cheng Yam Gong (author), James Shea and Dorothy Tse (translators), Moving a Stone,…
![[REVIEW] “Outstanding Translations of a Singular Poet: Yam Gong’s πππ£πππ π ππ‘πππ” by Mary King Bradley and Matthew Cheng](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/moving-a-stone-copy.jpg?w=896)
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Shirley Geok-lin Lim, In Praise of Limes, Sungold Editions, 2022. 106 pgs. In this review of Shirley Geok-lin Limβs In Praise of Limes, I attempt a process which…
![[REVIEW] “Limβs Limes Call To Mind⦔ by Dean A. F. Gui](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/praise-of-limes.png?w=1024)
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Rin Ishigaki (author), Janine Beichman (translator), and Paul Rossiter (editor), This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems, with an introduction by Janine Beichman, Isobar Press, 2022. 118 pgs. When…
![[REVIEW] βRin Ishigakiβs Poetry as Resilienceβ by Nadine Willems](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/the-overflowing-light-1.jpg?w=653)
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TH:Β We are pleased to present an exclusive essay by Eileen J. Cheng entitled “Lu Xun and Radical Art” and her English translation of Lu Xun’s “Tombstone Inscriptions” ε’η’£ζ, included in Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk. “Tombstone Inscriptions”…
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Gish Jen, Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories, Alfred A Knopf, 2022. 272 pgs. βA beautiful country full of beautiful coats, what could that be but evil?β ponders…
![[REVIEW] βLaughter of the Displaced: A Review of Gish Jenβs πβπππ πππ’, ππ. πππ₯ππβ by Emma H. Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/thank-you-mr-nixon-gish-jen.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Philip Bowring. The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, Bloomsbury, 2022. 272 pgs. The thing with a jigsaw puzzle is it is a mental pursuit of completion; that somebody shuffles…
![[REVIEW] βSifting Through The Rubble: Reading Philip Bowringβs πβπ ππππππ ππ ππππππ πβπππππππππ β by Jose Santos P. Ardivilla](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/the-making-of-the-modern-philippines-1.jpeg?w=568)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Karen Ma. Chinaβs Millennial Digital Generation: Conversations with Balinghou (Post-1980s) Indie Filmmakers, Long River Press, 2022. 260 pgs. On 2 January 1997, I boarded a plane in Shanghai heading to Chicago. The…
![[REVIEW] “Giving a Voice to Those With None: Karen Ma’s πΆβπππ’π ππππππππππ π·ππππ‘ππ πΊππππππ‘πππ” by X. H. Collins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/chinas-millennial-digital-generation-conversations-with-balinghou-post-1980s-indie-filmmakers-1.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nabina Das (translator), Alam Khorshed (curator), Arise out of the Lock: 50 Bangladeshi Women Poets in English, Balestier Press, 2022. 176 pgs. Arise Out of the Lock is a poetry collection by…
![[REVIEW] βπ΄πππ π ππ’π‘ ππ π‘βπ πΏπππ: On Resistance, Connection, and Enchantmentβ by Sharyn Phu](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/arise-out-of-the-lock.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Perhat Tursun (author), Darren Byler and Anonymous (translators), The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang, Columbia University Press, 2022. 168 pgs. A man leaves an office in ΓrΓΌmqi, and starts walking. The sun…
![[REVIEW] “A Psychoanalytical Auto-fictional Biography of a City: Perhat Tursun’s πβπ π΅ππππ π‘ππππ‘π ” by Serena De Marchi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/the-backstreets-perhat-tursun.png?w=1024)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Indelible City. Louisa Lim, Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, Text Publishing Melbourne Australia, 2022. 306 pgs. Louisa Limβs 2022 book Indelible City:…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Phoebe Tsang, Setting Fire to Water. Thistledown Press, 2022. 220 pgs. Phoebe Tsangβs short story collection Setting Fire to Water is a delightful debut that transforms seemingly prosaic lives and events into…
![[REVIEW] “Dream-like Reality: Phoebe Tsang’s πππ‘π‘πππ πΉπππ π‘π πππ‘ππ” by Aerith Au](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/fire-to-water_phoebe-tsang.png?w=1024)
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