Category: Archive—Editorials
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EDITORIAL / FEBRUARY 2010 (ISSUE 10) OTHER EDITORIALS There are two conflicting images of train travel. The first is of a train journey as romance, an unhurried and meandering trip through exotic lands—a luxurious ride eastward on the Orient Express,…
![[ARCHIVE] “Thoughts of Trains; Trains of Thought” by Jeff Zroback](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/cha-an-asian-literary-journal-issue-10.png?w=1024)
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EDITORIAL / NOVEMBER 2009 (ISSUE 9) OTHER EDITORIALS Anniversaries are, of course, a traditional time to take stock, find your bearings, make predictions about future directions. On the occasion of our second anniversary issue, I felt this would be a…
![[ARCHIVE] “Better Housekeeping” by Jeff Zroback](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/cha-an-asian-literary-journal-issue-9.png?w=1024)
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EDITORIAL / AUGUST 2009 (ISSUE 8) OTHER EDITORIALS The current issue of Cha features a review of Todd Swift’s latest poetry collection, Seaway: New and Selected Poetry. One of the poems in the book, “Kanada Post”, offers this meditation on the expatriate experience. I remember…
![[ARCHIVE] “Some Other Life” by Jeff Zroback, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Eddie Tay, and Royston Tester](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/issue8-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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EDITORIAL / MAY 2009 (ISSUE 7) OTHER EDITORIALS Normally, the process for choosing a cover image for an upcoming issue of Cha is quite straightforward, and my co-editor and I come to a consensus without much trouble. This time, however, the selection proved more…
![[ARCHIVE] “Under the Moon, Under the Rain-Hat” by Jeff Zroback](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/cha-an-asian-literary-journal-issue-7.png?w=1024)
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EDITORIAL / FEBRUARY 2009 (ISSUE 6) OTHER EDITORIALS For a few days following the incident at Cambridge University in which a young German protestor threw a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiaboa, the small thread of the web that originates…
![[ARCHIVE] “The Year of the Shoe” by Jeff Zroback](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cha-an-asian-literary-journal-issue-6.png?w=1024)
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EDITORIAL / NOVEMBER 2008 (ISSUE 5) OTHER EDITORIALS Recently my Hong Kong-born co-editor has developed a series of strange new habits, or, perhaps more accurately, several symptoms of the same habit. Her new quirks include buying instant noodles in bulk,…
![[ARCHIVE] “Time and Distance” by Jeff Zroback](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/issue5.png?w=1024)
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EDITORIAL / AUGUST 2008 (ISSUE 4) OTHER EDITORIALS [See contributors’ photographs taken when they were young here.] The cover of this issue features two family photos, one taken in Hong Kong, one in mainland China. There is a striking formality…
![[ARCHIVE] “The Family Album” by Jeff Zroback](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cha-an-asian-literary-journal-issue-4.png?w=1024)
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Editorial / May 2008 (Issue 3) OTHER EDITORIALS In the first major treatise on the subject of tea Chajing (The Classic of Tea) (8th century), Lu Yu categorized the different varieties of the drink by name: When tea has a sweet flavour, it…
![[ARCHIVE] “𝐶ℎ𝑎: Some Thoughts on a Name” by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Jeff Zroback](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cha-an-asian-literary-journal-issue-3.png?w=1024)
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Editorial / November 2007 (Issue 1) OTHER EDITORIALS Why start an internet journal? Why add another voice to the cluttered and overexposed world of creative writing online? We believe that these are questions that must be considered by anyone who…
![[ARCHIVE] “Why Start an Online Journal?” by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Jeff Zroback](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/screenshot-2022-11-23-at-12.55.09.png?w=1024)
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