Category: 2022 Books
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (author), Anthony H. Chambers & Paul McCarthy (translators), Longing and Other Stories, Columbia University Press, 2022. 145 pgs. Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Longing and Other Stories, translated by Anthony…
![[REVIEW] “Clash of Ideas: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” BY JAMES KIN-PONG AU](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/longing-and-other-stories_cha.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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. “Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will.” Ho-fung Hung’s latest monograph, City…
![[REVIEW] “Is Hong Kong Expired after the National Security Law?—A Review of Ho-fung Hung’s 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑑𝑔𝑒: 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝑅𝑢𝑙𝑒” by Winnie W. C. Lai](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/city-on-the-edge_cha-banner.png?w=936)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kevin Chen (author) and Darryl Sterk (translator), Ghost Town, Europa Editions, 2022. 384 pgs. Told from perspective of members of the Chen family, the plot and relationships in Kevin Chen’s…
![[REVIEW] “Omission and Superstition in Kevin Chen’s 𝐺ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑇𝑜𝑤𝑛” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ghost-town-1.png?w=984)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑚 & 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑠” 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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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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 Fang’s…
![[REVIEW] “An Ode to Translation: Michael Berry’s 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑊𝑢ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑦” 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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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “An (Im)possible Document: A Review of Karen Cheung’s The Impossible City” by Luca Griseri Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on The Impossible City. Karen Cheung, The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir, Penguin…
![[REVIEW] “An (Im)possible Document: A Review of Karen Cheung’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦” by Luca Griseri](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/the-impossible-city_karen-cheung-1.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑎𝑙𝑖 𝐴𝑙𝑚𝑒𝑖𝑑𝑎” 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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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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. “There is no escape from the horror…
![[REVIEW] “A Song of Despair, of Burning Rage: Louisa Lim’s 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦” by James Thompson](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/indelible-city-louisa-lim-1.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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] “Hong Kong as Method: Lucy Hamilton’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑇𝑜𝑙𝑜 𝐻𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑤𝑎𝑦” 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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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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 Cheung’s memoir, The Impossible City, opens by…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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. When I was younger, my friends would…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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. The bewitching voice that sears through this collection of…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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. This review is cross-published with Polity. A murdered journalist “awakens” in…
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📁 Return to First Impressions📁 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 Montesquieu’s…
![[REVIEW] “Through the Lens of European Decadence: Hongjian Wang’s 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒” 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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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Outstanding Translations of a Singular Poet: Yam Gong’s Moving a Stone” by Mary King Bradley and Matthew Cheng Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon Moving a Stone. Yam Gong (author), James Shea…
![[REVIEW] “Outstanding Translations of a Singular Poet: Yam Gong’s 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒” 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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📁 Return to First Impressions📁 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 Lim’s In Praise of Limes, I attempt a process which…
![[REVIEW] “Lim’s 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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📁 Return to First Impressions📁 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] “Rin Ishigaki’s Poetry as Resilience” by Nadine Willems](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/the-overflowing-light-1.jpg?w=653)
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TH: 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” 墓碣文, included in Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk. “Tombstone Inscriptions”…
![[EXCLUSIVE] Eileen J. Cheng: “Lu Xun and Radical Art” and “Tombstone Inscriptions” 墓碣文](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/wild-grass-and-morning-blossoms-gathered-at-dusk-1.jpg?w=450)
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📁 Return to First Impressions📁 Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Gish Jen, Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories, Alfred A Knopf, 2022. 272 pgs. “A beautiful country full of beautiful coats, what could that be but evil?” ponders…
![[REVIEW] “Laughter of the Displaced: A Review of Gish Jen’s 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑌𝑜𝑢, 𝑀𝑟. 𝑁𝑖𝑥𝑜𝑛” 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] “Sifting Through The Rubble: Reading Philip Bowring’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠” 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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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Giving a Voice to Those With None: Karen Ma’s China’s Millennial Digital Generation” by X. H. Collins Karen Ma. China’s Millennial Digital Generation: Conversations with Balinghou (Post-1980s) Indie Filmmakers, Long…
![[ESSAY] “Giving a Voice to Those With None: Karen Ma’s 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎’𝑠 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” 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] “𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑂𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑐𝑘: On Resistance, Connection, and Enchantment” 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 Ürümqi, and starts walking. The sun…
![[REVIEW] “A Psychoanalytical Auto-fictional Biography of a City: Perhat Tursun’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠” by Serena De Marchi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/the-backstreets-perhat-tursun.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 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. Louisa Lim’s 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 Tsang’s 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 𝑆𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟” by Aerith Au](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/fire-to-water_phoebe-tsang.png?w=1024)
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