Category: Cha Hong Kong Series
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[INCIDENTAL] “The Hong Kong Signs Series” by Alex Przybyla Hate not life buoys and other small beginnings (Hong Kong Signs 一) THE LIFE BUOY IS TO BE USED FORRESCUE PURPOSES ONLY. DAMAGEOR THEFT OF THE LIFE BUOY WILLRESULT IN PROSECUTION……
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[INCIDENTAL] “Crafting the Hong Kong Signs Series” by Alex Przybyla Editor’s note: Click HERE to read/view Alex Przybyla’s “Hong Kong Signs Series”. To walk through Hong Kong is to walk through a world of signs. Directions, advertisements, warnings, reminders: Hong…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Hong Kong, Literature, Culture, History” by Jean-Claude Trutt, translated by Cyril Camus I must admit, however, that I never particularly liked the city. Editor’s note: An earlier version of this…
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[LITERARY ESSAY] “Navigating Endless Seas: Hong Kong” by Matt Reeck DREAMING THAT, while still alive, they’d been translated to the Islands of the Blest where time had happily stopped, as on an antique clock. The city is this island. 1…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Moon Still Represents My Heart: Revisiting Tián Mì Mì at Thirty” by Bea Phi Peter Ho-sun Chan (director). Comrades: Almost a Love Story (甜蜜蜜; Tián Mì Mì), 1996. 118…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [INCIDENTAL] “Ghost in the Shell Rewired: Identity, Technology and the Fantastical at Hong Kong’s M+” by Jennifer Eagleton Mamoru Oshii (director). Ghost in the Shell, 1995. 83 min. Ghost in the…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Yuanfen of Emmy the Great: On Emma-Lee Moss’s My Cantopop Nights” by Mario Rustan Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon My Cantopop Nights. Emma-Lee Moss. My Cantopop Nights:…
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While we continue to welcome general submissions that fall within the remit and ethos of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, we are especially keen to receive work related to Hong Kong. We would love to devote sustained attention to Hong…
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[INCIDENTAL] “Resolute Voices Across Time: Virginia Woolf, Eileen Chang, and Chow Hang-tung” by Patrick Poon Few would think to place the British writer Virginia Woolf, the Chinese writer Eileen Chang, and Chow Hang-tung, the Hong Kong barrister and Vice-Chairperson of…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Last Cry: Light, Love and Everyday Evil in We’re Nothing at All” by Tin Yuet Tam Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on We’re Nothing at All. Herman Yau (director). We’re Nothing at…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Body Part 520: Crime and Tragic Romance in Herman Yau’s We’re Nothing at All” by Jennifer Eagleton Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on We’re Nothing at All. Herman Yau (director). We’re…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Metaphor of Trees: Stephanie Ellen Sy’s The Magnificent Banyan Tree and the Green Tong Lau” by Rebekah Chan Stephanie Ellen Sy (writer), Ishita Jain (illustrator). The Magnificent Banyan Tree…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Authority to Continue in Kiwi Chow’s Deadline” by Qinlei Wang Kiwi Chow (director). Deadline, 2025. 117 min. By the time a teacher proposes suspending the final examinations at Enshan…
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[INCIDENTAL] “The Ties That Bind Us: Listening to Catherine Cho on The Devoted and Hong Kong” by Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley Catherine Cho. The Devoted. Fourth Estate, 2026. 368 pp. Listening to Catherine Cho speak about The Devoted on 2 October 2026 at this year’s Lincoln…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “The Limits of Universality in Mary Stephen’s Palimpsest” by NLL Mary Stephen (director), Palimpsest: The Story of a Name, 2025. 108 min. I live in the middle of nowhere…
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[FICTION] “Engagement” by Greg Solomon Greg Solomon on his story: One of the things I enjoy about Hong Kong is the diversity of people who live, work (and love) side by side. This is the social embodiment of yin and…
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[FICTION] “To Happy Valley” by Alexandre Sadeghi Alexandre Sadeghi on “To Happy Valley”: We’re all just bits and pieces. The idea of being from a place obsesses me. It is an open-ended question for so many of those in between,…
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[FICTION] “Their Voices, Varied and Many” by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Reid Mitchell Do you know where I can buy them in Hong Kong? Tammy Lai-Ming Ho‘s introduction to “Their Voices, Varied and Many”: Reid Mitchell came to Hong Kong…
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[FICTION] “The Monkey King’s Dilemma” by T. A. Morton T. A. Morton’s introduction: The Monkey King is a known troublemaker. He has always pushed boundaries, from his time stealing peaches of immortality to wrecking the Queen Mother of the West’s…
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[FICTION] “Blue Eyed Pigs” by Jonathan Han Jonathan Han on “Blue Eyed Pigs”: Twenty years ago, Hong Kong was the busiest port in the world, the greatest trade centre by measures that extended beyond the abstract and the fiscal. Older…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Tammy Lai-Ming Ho’s If I Do Not Reply Is Poetry, Gentle Irony and Defiance” by Cyril Camus Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on If I Do Not Reply. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, If…
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[ESSAY] “The Punch and the Punchline: How Two Wongs from Hong Kong Made Me Right” by Felix Cheong Singapore is very multicultural in that way. Two Wongs have made me right, at least in my imagination. I am referring to Tony…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Green Trojan Horses: Trees, Power, and the Chinese State in Cheng Li’s Contested Environmentalisms” by Jennifer Eagleton Cheng Li. Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China. Stanford University…
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Slow Down and Sip the Tea: The Delightfully Surreal World of Katsuhito Ishii’s The Taste of Tea” by Nicola Ulaan Wan Katsuhito Ishii (director). The Taste of Tea (Cha no Aiji), 2004. 143 min. When Katsuhito Ishii’s The Taste…
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[FICTION] “Take Me to Hong Kong” by Kim Christine Editor’s note: This flash story is inspired by Charles Aznavour’s “Emmenez-Moi”. We suggest listening to the song while reading the piece. A YouTube link is provided at the end of the…
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[ESSAY] “Hong Kong: A Lover’s Meditation” by Jeff Beyl Photo © Jeff Beyl Hong Kong Works To paraphrase travel writer Jan Morris, Hong Kong works. Someone asked me, many years ago, after my first trip to Hong Kong, “What’s it like…
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[CONVERSATION] “Challenging the Patriarchy with Poetry and Prose” by Sadie Kaye and Shikha S. Lamba The Weight of Silence by Zuhra Nadem Sadie Kaye’s introduction: Some interviews begin with a résumé. This one began with a single sentence that clicked…
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[CONVERSATION] “Mapping Loss in a Crowded City” by Sadie Kaye and Holly Sykes Holly Sykes at home in Hong Kong Sadie Kaye’s introduction: What happens when a self-proclaimed “shy, bookish person” swaps the muddy, rolling hills of northwest England for…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Hong Kong, Cantopop and the Memory of Home: Emma-Lee Moss’s My Cantopop Nights” by Susan Blumberg-Kason Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon My Cantopop Nights. Emma-Lee Moss. My Cantopop…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Picked Up by Wingtips: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho’s Hula Hooping” by Jonathan Han Tammy Lai-Ming Ho. Hula Hooping, Chameleon Press, 2015. 108 pgs. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho at the launch of Hula…
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