Category: Cha Reading Series
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[Download Kai-cheung’s selected text here.] [Return to Table of Contents.] Dung Kai-cheung 董啟章 was born in Hong Kong in 1967 and received his BA and MPhil in comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong. He has won several literary…
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[Patrick’s selected text can be found below.] [Return to Table of Contents.] from Liu Xiaobo’s last statement, “I Have No Enemy”: . “Hatred can rot away at a person’s intelligence and conscience. Enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a…
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[Susan’s poem can be found below.] [Return to Table of Contents.] Liu Xiao Bo has Left China by Susan Lavender 柳安霞 Adam’s rib: she remained part of him, To the last, even when the light was so dim. She…
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[Download Michael’s selected text here.] [Return to Table of Contents.] Originally from Ireland, MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN is a Hong Kong-based academic, teacher and writer. He is also an editor of Hong Kong Studies, the first academic journal devoted entirely to Hong Kong.…
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[Download Mei Kwan’s selected text here.] [Return to Table of Contents.] NG MEI KWAN 吳美筠 is a well-established Hong Kong writer with substantial experience in both creative and media writing. Her first poetry collection won an award as Outstanding…
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[Download Lucas’s selected poems here.] [Return to Table of Contents.] LUCAS KLEIN 柯夏智 (PhD, Yale) is a father, writer, and translator whose work has appeared in LARB, Jacket, Rain Taxi, CLEAR, Comparative Literature Studies, and PMLA, and from Fordham, Black…
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[Evelyn’s selected text can be found below.] [Return to Table of Contents.] from Liao Yiwu’s《證詞》: . 《證詞》附錄:獄 信 3 1991年7月30日 . 鳥羽: . 這兒進出的信件要經過嚴格的檢查,我曾因亂塗亂寫吃過不少苦頭,電棒烙舌頭, 反銬雙手,罰曬太陽,罰唱歌,罰睡濕地,拳打腳踢自不必說。最惱火的是卡斷通信,一卡幾個月,這兒一個叫「劉溫柔」的幹事就經常卡信。即使這樣,一有機會我就要寫一些永遠交不出的信,用自己造的竹筆蘸紫藥水寫,只要加不了刑,我就寫。寫著玩。我相信寫過的東西,那怕留不下去,腦子裡總是有印像的。 不能悶在心裡,否則會出毛病。 . 隔壁房有犯人肚子爛了個洞,他就用筷子挑洞裡的膿血給他媽寫信,寫完後疼得要死要活。因為這事,管房政府取消了全房通信,回復看守所的老傳統, 每月填一次「人犯家屬送物通知單」什麼「關係——配偶;所需何物——人民幣若干元」之類。我拒絕填這種混帳玩意,老謝也不填,堅持了兩個月,才允許我們在通知單下面寫兩三百個字。 . 我已經變了,像頭狼,與刑事犯鬥狠,與房上哨兵罵架,撞牆自殺,用死犯暗藏的刀片割腕,給鬥毆的犯人當裁判,能玩的都玩了。我從來沒這麼不要臉。 劉溫柔罵我畜生,我就撲上去咬他,結果把一個勞改犯的手指頭快啃斷了。我被反銬二十五天,成了「獄霸」,政府在廣播裡號召眾犯檢舉揭發我,立功授獎。我可顧不了這麼多,痛得受不了就趴在大炕上歇斯底裡地慘嚎,攪得監獄動蕩不安。 直到頸部挨了趙幹事一砍掌,我五天發不出任何聲音。 . 一個因盜竊被判死罪的人抱著我,罵警察慘無人道。他叫王躍,他整理著腳鐐說:「反革命,沒想到他們也會這樣整你,賀所長還讓我寫你的加刑材料,我不寫可不是因為我仁慈。沒意思。如果他們不槍斃我,我就要大膽檢舉你的反黨言行了。」 我叫他滾開。 , 他說我是他平生最後一個朋友,他不滾開。「我是狼,從小在狼的環境裡長大, 狼群裡不可能蹦出隻善良的綿羊來。但狼有狼性,一本書裡講,當狼崽子被村上的人捉去,狼就會成群結隊跟蹤而來,圍住村莊,嚎叫到天亮,惹急了還將不顧一切的進攻,直到小狼崽被放回。這點比人,特別是比你們這種文化人強吧?」我說我不是文化人,白幹事叫我卵人。 .…
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[Download Lian-Hee’s selected text here.] [Return to Table of Contents.] LIAN-HEE WEE 黃良喜 is (co-)author or (co-)editor of eight books and numerous research articles. His most notable publications include the monograph Phonological Tone (Cambridge University Press, to appear) and the…
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[Download William’s selected text here.] [Return to Table of Contents.] WILLIAM NEE is a China Researcher for Amnesty International and an Executive Committee Member of PEN Hong Kong. He carries out research on human rights in China, particularly on freedom of expression,…
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Thank you for Cha‘s co-editor Tammy Ho Lai-Ming’s invitation to the Cha Reading Series event “Sayang Singapura” (Thursday 3 May 2018), which featured three Cha contributors originally from Singapore—Kum Hoon Ng, Eddie Tay (also Cha‘s Reviews Editor) and Lian-Hee Wee. It…
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Cha Reading Series takes the online journal out into the physical world. It brings together poets, writers, translators and artists who are in some way or other affiliated with Cha. Readings will take place in various impromptu locations across the city,…


