Category: Cha Reading Series
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Bleak House Books opened in February 2017, twenty years after the handover. In that year, Cha: An…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Michael O’Sullivan read an excerpt from Bleak House by Charles Dickens and surprised and delighted the audience…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Chris Song read poems by e.e. cummings, Anna Akhmatova, and Gavin Ewart. ANYONE LIVED IN A PRETTY…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Jason S Polley read two poems by Wallace Stevens—both are available in the public domain. PHASES I.There’s…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Yi-Fu Tuan’sSpace and Place:The Perspective of Experience an excerpt [Place is security, space is freedom.] People tend to…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Oliver Farry read from Robert Fagles’s translation of Homer’s Iliad, a passage relating the funeral of Patroclus…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’sLittle Prince, Chapter 21 L E S S O N It was then that the…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho First performed at LOVE: A Reading, these are original poems by Ilaria Maria Sala. We are grateful…
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Lian-Hee Wee read excerpts from Ruth Smythers’s Sex Tips for Husbands & Wives from 1894 and Timothy…
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Translation Editor Lucas Klein‘s note: On the 9th or 10th of July, depending on where you are in the world, Cha hosted “The Force of Forging Words: A Translation Conversation” to launch my translation of Words as Grain: New and…
![[FEATURE] Six Poems by Duo Duo and Translated by Lucas Klein in 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/words-as-grain_duo-duo_lucas-klein.png?w=1024)
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In “The Force of Forging Words”, a poem in Words as Grain: New & Selected Poems by premier Chinese poet Duo Duo 多多 (Yale University Press, The Cecile and Theodore Margellos World Republic of Letters series), translated by Lucas Klein,…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Entering a State of No-Self: Some Thoughts on Poetry and Translation” by Chris Song](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/duo-duo-words-as-grain-cha-chris-song.png?w=1024)
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Download Lucas Klein’s introduction to Duo Duo’sWords as Grain HERE. “How to make sense of Duo Duo’s poetry is the overarching question it poses, at the root of its political significance as well as its literary interest. In the words…
![[FEATURE] Lucas Klein’s Introduction to Duo Duo’s 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 + “The Force of Forging Words”](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/duo-duo_words-as-grain_lucas-klein.png?w=1024)
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Editors’ note: Oliver Farry was one of the speakers at Cha‘s “Writing COVID-19” (Thursday 30 July 2020). He read this piece written specifically for the event. On the face of it, COVID-19 was a boon of sorts for the writer.…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Writing COVID-19” by Oliver Farry](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/oliver-farry-1.jpg?w=1024)
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Cantonese slang, puns, wordplay and sometimes even curse words have featured prominently in recent mass protests in Hong Kong. The creative and effective use of Cantonese has turned it into one of the defining characteristics and powerful tools of the…
![[Cha Reading Series] Cantonese: The Language of Protest (Wednesday 24 July 2019)](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/screenshot-2019-06-28-at-11.33.08.png?w=1024)
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➑➒➏➍ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) Cha and PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue: Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Kate Rogers’s “Twenty…
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➑➒➏➍ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) Cha and PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue: Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Lian-Hee Wee’s “Duckgate…
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➑➒➏➍ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) Cha and PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue: Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Ng Mei Kwan’s…
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➑➒➏➍ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) Cha and PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue: Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Ian Johnson’s The…
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➑➒➏➍ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) Cha and PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue: Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Liu Xiaobo’s “For…
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➑➒➏➍ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) Cha and PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue: Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Guo Ting’s…
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➑➒➏➍ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On Cha and PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue: Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Donald Justice’s “Thin Man” Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter…
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[Download Wilson’s selected text here.] [Return to Table of Contents.] WILSON LEUNG 梁允信 is a barrister whose legal practice focuses on commercial litigation and constitutional law. Before turning to law, he studied philosophy at the London School of Economics and…
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[Download Akin’s selected text here.] [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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[Mary’s selected poems, both by Liu Xiabao, can be found below.] [Return to Table of Contents.] 〈卡夫卡：我對你說 —- 給酷愛卡夫卡的妻〉 卡夫卡，我对你说 在透明的蓝天下 想起你 肯定是一种亵渎 但我分明在蓝天下 在半个苍白的月亮中 看见了你 你那双受虐狂的眼睛 瞳人的正中 晃动着你爹的皮带 皮带的后面是一张咀嚼的大嘴 而更深处是漆黑、寒冷的阳台 你惊恐于 自己的瘦弱和父亲的伟岸 如同耗子惊恐于猫的敏捷 于是，你的笔 变成一棵老树上 最早干枯却 最后折断的枝杈 历尽疯狂的沧桑 复归于平静…
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[Nashua’s selected poem can be found below.] [Return to Table of Contents.] Your Lifelong Prisoner by Liu Xiaobo, written from prison [via.] To Xia My dear, I’ll never give up the struggle for freedom from the oppressors’ jail, but I’ll be…
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