Category: Cha Review of Books and Films
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{Written by Frances An, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ping Zhu, Zhuoyi Wang, and Jason McGrath (editors),Β Maoist Laughter (ζ―ζ代ηη¬), Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 232 pgs. Accounts of communist terrorβfor example,…
![[REVIEW] “Psychological infiltration in Maoist Laughter” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/maoist-laughter_hong-kong-university-press.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Anya Goncharova, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jennifer Wong,Β Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl, Bitter Melon θ¦η, 2019. 20 pgs. Life is a series of memory fragments that piece…
![[REVIEW] “In-between the Inbetween: Jennifer Wong’s A Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl” by Anya Goncharova](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/diary-of-a-miu-miu-salesgirl-by-jennifer-wong.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} David Chaffetz, Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture in Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou, Abbreviated Press, 2019. 88 pgs. When one thinks of the…
![[REVIEW] “At the Centre of the Arts: A Review of David Chaffetz’s Three Asian Divas” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/three-asian-divas_david-chaffetz_abbreviated-press.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Aaron Chan, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Too Too Too Too, Math Paper Press, 2018. 100 pgs. Tammy Lai-Ming Hoβs second poetry collection Too Too Too…
![[REVIEW] “Trepidatious Yet Defiant: Tammy Lai-Ming Hoβs πππ πππ πππ πππ” by Aaron Chan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/too-too-too-too-by-tammy-lai-ming-ho-math-paper-press.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Peter Gordon and Juan JosΓ© Morales, Painter and Patron: The Maritime Silk Road in the CΓ³dice Casanatense, Abbreviated Press, 2020. 102…
![[REVIEW] “Quite Connected Centuries Ago: Reviewing Peter Gordon and Juan JosΓ© Morales’s Painter and Patron” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/painter-and-patron.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Ash Dean, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Lan Lan (author), Fiona Sze-Lorrain (translator), Canyon in the Body, Zephyr Press, 2014. 208 pgs. Carrying, unzipping, stuffing, rezipping, Stowingβ I am…
![[REVIEW] “Fine Lines of Meteorology: Lan Lan’s πΆπππ¦ππ ππ π‘βπ π΅ππ𦔠by Ash Dean](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/lan-lan_canyon-in-the-body_fiona-sze-lorrain.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Fathima M, this review is part of Issue 46 ofΒ Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} David Chaffetz, Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture in Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou, Abbreviated Press, 2019. 88 pgs. Culture and cultural…
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{Written by Sucharita Dutta-Asane, this review is part of Issue 46 ofΒ Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} H.S. Shivaprakash (author) and Kamalakar Bhat (editor), The Word in the World: Essays and Lectures on Indian Literature and Aesthetics, Manipal…
![[REVIEW] “A Cosmopolitan Breadth of Vision: A Review of Essays and Lectures on Indian Literature and Aesthetics” by Sucharita Dutta-Asane](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/the-word-in-the-world_hs-shivaprakash.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 ofΒ Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Antony Dapiran, City on Fire: the Fight for Hong Kong, Scribe, 2020. 336 pgs. In June 1987, my father and I…
![[REVIEW] “Unique Strength of Hong Kong People: A Review of Antony Dapiran’s City on Fire” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/city-on-fire-the-fight-for-hong-kong-antony-dapiran.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Brian Haman, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Dai Congrong and Jin Li (editors), The Book of Shanghai: A City in Short Fiction, Comma Press, 2020. 150 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “An Ever-present Labyrinth: Reviewing The Book of Shanghai” by Brian Haman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/book-of-shanghai-a-city-in-short-fiction.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Matt Turner, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} David Clark, China-Art-Modernity: A Critical Introduction to Chinese Visual Expression from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century to the Present…
![[REVIEW] “Experiments in Form: A Review of David Clark’s πΆβπππβπ΄ππ‘βππππππππ‘𦔠by Matt Turner](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/david-clarke_china-art-modernity.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Phill Provance, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Joshua Eric Williams, The Strangest Conversation, Red Moon Press, 2019. 64 pgs. Joshua Eric Williamsβs collection of Western free-form haiku,…
![[REVIEW] “Into the White: A Review of Joshua Eric Williamsβs The Strangest Conversation” by Phill Provance](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the-stranggest-conversation.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Maheen Haider, this review is part of the “Writing Malaysia” issue of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Bernice Chauly, Once We Were There, Epigram, 2017. 368 pgs. Bernice Chaulyβs Once We Were There is a…
![[REVIEW] “A Story of Many Faces: Bernice Chaulyβs ππππ ππ ππππ πβπππ” by Maheen Haider](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bernice-chauly_once-we-were-there.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Quenntis Ashby, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Phill Provance, A Plan in Case of Morning, Vine Leaves Press, 2020. 78 pgs. Editors’ note: This title will be…
![[REVIEW] “A Profound Sense of Growth: Phill Provance’s A Plan in Case of Morning” by Quenntis Ashby](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/phill-provance-a-plan-in-case-of-morning-1.jpg?w=532)
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{Written by Kiran Bhat, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Christopher New, Chinese Spring, Contraband, 2019. 279 pgs. There is a reason why, in certain cultures, we view life as…
![[REVIEW] “Ebbs and Flows of History: A Review of Christopher New’s Chinese Spring” by Kiran Bhat](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/chinese-spring_christopher-new.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Cyril Camus, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Zou Tao (author), Timothy Gouldthorp (translator), The Fox Spirit of Bluestone Mountain, Camphor Press, 2020. 228 pgs. HΓΊlΓ yuΓ‘n quΓ‘n zhuΓ n…
![[REVIEW] “πβπ πΉππ₯ ππππππ‘ ππ π΅ππ’ππ π‘πππ πππ’ππ‘πππ: Female Force, Bridges from Zhiguai to Novel, and a Royal Rumble of Myth” by Cyril Camus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the-fox-spirit-of-bluestone-mountain-zou-tao-translated-by-timothy-gouldthorp.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jung Chang, Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China, Penguin Random House, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “The World for One Family: A Review of Jung Changβs π΅ππ πππ π‘ππ, πΏππ‘π‘ππ πππ π‘ππ, π
ππ πππ π‘ππ” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/big-sister-little-sister-red-sister-three-women-at-the-heart-of-twentieth-century-china-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Phill Provance, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, An Extraterrestrial in Hong Kong, Musical Stone Publishing, 2018. 45 pgs. If any one line hints at…
![[REVIEW] “The Art of Alienation: A Review of Tammy Lai-Ming Hoβs π΄π πΈπ₯π‘πππ‘πππππ π‘ππππ ππ π»πππ πΎπππ” by Phill Provance](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/an-extraterrestrial-in-hong-kong-1.jpg?w=969)
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{Written by Amanda Chan, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Cyril Wong, This Side of Heaven, Epigram Books, 2020. 176 pgs. Fire is mesmerising in the way that flames flicker…
![[REVIEW] “Tales from Life and the Afterlife: Cyril Wong’s πβππ ππππ ππ π»πππ£ππ” by Amanda Chan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cyril-wong_this-side-of-heaven-1.jpg?w=798)
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{Written by Kayla Cadenas, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kawika Guillermo, All Flowers Bloom, Westphalia Press, 2020. 356 pgs. What can a love story become in the middle of…
![[REVIEW] “The Mortality of Undying Love: Kawika Guillermo’s All Flowers Bloom” by Kayla Cadenas](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/all-flowers-bloom_westphalia-press-1.png?w=795)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Amy L. Atchison and Shauna L. Shames, Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics, Columbia University Press, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “Not Definitive: A Review of Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/survide-and-resist_amy-l-atchison-shauna-l-shames.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Cameron L. White, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jing Jing Chang, Screening Communities: Negotiating Narratives of Empire, Nation, and the Cold War in Hong Kong Cinema, Hong…
![[REVIEW] “Peripheries of Becoming: Reading Jing Jing Chang’s Screening Communities” by Cameron L. White](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/screening-communities-negotiating-narratives-of-empire-nation-and-the-cold-war-in-hong-kong-cinema-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ya Shi (author), Nick Admussen (translator), Floral Mutter, Jintian Series of Contemporary Chinese Poetry, Zephyr Press, 2020. 136 pgs.βPlease believe that the rays of light at nightfall have damp / antennae,β urges…
![[REVIEW] “On a Haunted Train: Reading Ya Shiβs πΉπππππ ππ’π‘π‘ππ in Nick Admussenβs Translation” by Joanna Krenz](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/floral-mutter_ya-shi_nick-admussen.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Juan Du, The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of Chinaβs Instant City, Harvard University Press, 2020. 384 pgs. In 2005, Juan…
![[REVIEW] “A Treasure Chest of Gems: Reading Juan Du’s The Shenzhen Experiment” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/the-shenzhen-experiment_juan-du.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ian Johnson, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao, Pantheon, 2017. 486 pgs. When Ian Johnson first…
![[REVIEW] “Resurgence of Religion: A Review of Ian Johnson’s πβπ πππ’ππ ππ πΆβπππ” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/the-souls-of-china-the-return-of-religion-after-mao-by-ian-johnson-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jonathan Chatwin, Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China, Manchester University Press, 2019. 364 pgs. Itβs difficult to think…
![[REVIEW] “History is Often Chilling: Reviewing Jonathan Chatwin’s Long Peace Street” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/long-peace-street-a-walk-in-modern-china-by-jonathan-chatwin-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Garfield Chow, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Antony Dapiran, City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong, Scribe, 2020. 336 pgs. City on Fire, by journalist, lawyer,…
![[REVIEW] “In Search of What Endures at a Time of Uncertainty: A Review ofΒ Antony Dapiran’s City on Fire” by Garfield Chow](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/city-on-fire-the-fight-for-hong-kong-antony-dapiran-1.jpg?w=800)
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{Written by Jennifer Wong, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai, The Emma Press, 2020. 96 pgs. Tiny Moons: A…
![[REVIEW] “Childhood Memories: A Review of Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons” by Jennifer Wong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/tiny-moons-a-year-of-eating-in-shanghai-1.jpg?w=1024)
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[REVIEW] “Iterationβs Itineraries: A Review of Jacob Edmond’s Make It the Same” by Vincenz Serrano
{Written by Vincenz Serrano, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jacob Edmond, Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media, Columbia University Press, 2019. 360 pgs. In…
![[REVIEW] “Iterationβs Itineraries: A Review of Jacob Edmond’s Make It the Same” by Vincenz Serrano](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/make-it-the-same-poetry-in-the-age-of-global-media-jacob-edmond-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Marc de Faoite, this review is part of the “Writing Malaysia” issue of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tash Aw, We, the Survivors, Fourth Estate, 2019. 336 pgs. “There are only rich Chinese, and potentially…
![[REVIEW] “Unambiguous Immediacy: A Review of Tash Aw’s ππ, π‘βπ ππ’ππ£ππ£πππ ” by Marc de Faoite](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/we-the-survivors-1.jpg?w=1024)
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