Category: Akin Jeje-Cha
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![Protected: [ESSAY] βA History of Peel Street Poetryβ by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/images.png?w=225)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βBeyond Stereotypes: Ronald Weitzerβs Sex Tourism in Thailandβ by Akin Jeje Ronald Weitzer, Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asiaβs Premier Erotic Playground, New York University Press, 2023. 337 pgs. Ronald…
![[REVIEW] βBeyond Stereotypes: Ronald Weitzerβs πππ₯ πππ’πππ π ππ πβππππππβ by Akin JejeΒ Β](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sex-tourism-in-thailand-inside-asias-premier-erotic-playground-1.jpg?w=1000)
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Also read Andrew Barker’s tribute to Reid Mitchell. Photo of Reid Mitchell Β© Martin Alexander Describing a great and complex man as Reid Hardeman Mitchell (1955-2023) is not easyβhe was a poet and a professor, bon vivant and raconteur, historian…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “A Tribute to Reid Mitchell” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/reid-mitchell-cha-an-asian-literary-journal-2.jpg?w=1024)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βA Bittersweet Love for a Tempestuous City: Chan Kwan Ee Tomβs Listen” by Akin Jeje Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Listen. Chan Kwan Ee Tom, Listen, Atmosphere Press, 2023. Inspired…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βA Bittersweet Love for a Tempestuous City: Chan Kwan Ee Tomβs πΏππ π‘ππ” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/listen_chan-kwan-ee-tom.jpg?w=1024)
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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 Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Bei Dao (author), Ted Huters and Feng-ying Ming (translators), Blue House, Zephyr Press, 2000. 262 pgs. First published…
![[Review] “Extended Musings: Bei Dao’s Blue House” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/bei-dao_blue-house.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Karen Kao, The Dancing Girl and the Turtle, Linen Press, 2017. 245 pgs. Karen Kao’s debut novel, the…
![[REVIEW] “Karen Kao’s The Dancing Girl and the Turtle” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/the-dancing-girl-and-the-turtle-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jason Y. Ng and Susan Blumberg-Kason (editors), Hong Kong Noir, Akashic and Blacksmith Books, 2018. 256 pgs. Elegiac…
![[REVIEW] “Hong Kong Noir” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/hong-kong-noir_cha.jpg?w=509)
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As part ofΒ the Cha Writing Workshop Series, I held a poetry seminar in the common area of the Justice Centre in Jordan, Kowloon on Saturday 25 August 2018 to speak to a group of asylum seekers currently residing in Hong…
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As a part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, I visited Valtorta College in Tai Po on Friday 6 July 2018 to speak to a group of 16 Form-5 students about spoken word poetry, and afterwards held a workshop on…
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[Download Akin’s selected text here.]Β Β [Return to Table of Contents.] Canadian poet AKIN JEJE lives in Hong Kong. His works have been published and featured in Canada and Hong Kong. His poetry collection Smoked Pearl was a semi-finalist for the…
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