Category: Cha Review of Books and Films
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{Written by Jimin Kang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Aftershock. Holmes Chan (editor), Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong, Small Tune Press, 2020. 93 pgs. Aftershock: Essays from Hong…
![[REVIEW] “Testimony Will Always Prevail: A Review of 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑐𝑘” by Jimin Kang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/aftershock_holmes-chan-1.jpeg?w=500)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Francisca Yuenki Lai, Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires, Hong Kong University Press, 2020. 148 pgs. It’s a Sunday afternoon in Kowloon Park or Victoria Park, Hong Kong, and Francisca…
![[REVIEW] “A Study of Where Sexuality is Produced: Reviewing Maid to Queer” by Noah Arthur Weber](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/francisca-yuenki-lai-maid-to-queer-asian-labor-migration-and-female-same-sex-desires.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Written by Ari Santiago, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Zafar Anjum (editor), The Best Asian Short Stories 2020, Kitaab, 2020. 268 pgs. Collections titled “the best” are always kind of presumptuous,…
![[REVIEW] “Asia in So Many Words: A Review of 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 2020” by Ari Santiago](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/tbass-2020-front-23-oct-1.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Carlos Rojas (special issue editor), Method as Method, V16: N2 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Duke University Press, 2019. According to a quick etymological internet search, the term “method” originates in the…
![[REVIEW] “Review as Method: A Review of Method as Method” by Gareth Paul Breen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/prism_method-as-method.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} C.T. Au, The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan, Lexington Books, 2020. 202 pgs. C.T. Au’s The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung…
![[REVIEW] “Dissected by Theory: A Review of C.T. Au’s The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/the-hong-kong-modernism-of-leung-ping-kwan_review.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.} Yū Miri (author) and Morgan Giles (translator), Tokyo Ueno Station, Tilted Axis Press, 2019 (first published in 2014). 197 pgs. Kazu Mori is…
![[REVIEW] “Critical Social Commentary of Modern Japan: A Review of Yū Miri’s 𝑇𝑜𝑘𝑦𝑜 𝑈𝑒𝑛𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tokyouenostation-2.jpg?w=762)
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{Written by Elaine Chiew, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Chia Joo Ming (Author), Sim Wai Chew (Translator), Exile or Pursuit, Balestier Press, 2019. 306 pgs. Exile or Pursuit employs the genre…
![[REVIEW] “Bildungsroman of a Singaporean Ordinary Joe: A Review of Chia Joo Ming’s 𝐸𝑥𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡” by Elaine Chiew](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/exile-or-pursuit.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.} Leslie Shimotakahara, Red Oblivion, Dundurn Press, 2019. 304 pgs. Jill Lau and her sister Celeste rush to visit their elderly father after…
![[REVIEW] “A Stirring Tribute to Hong Kong: A Review of Leslie Shimotakahara’s Red Oblivion” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/red-obivion_shimotakahara.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Marc de Faoite, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (author) and Arunava Sinha (translator), The Yogini, Tilted Axis Press, 2019. 208 pgs. The Yogini is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay’s third…
![[REVIEW] “Parallel and Intertwining Interpretations: Reviewing Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑖” by Marc de Faoite](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/the-yogini.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Carlos Rojas (special issue editor), Method as Method, V16: N2 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Duke University Press, 2019. Method here is used as a “prism” to tease out our underlying assumptions…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Not Written Words. Xi Xi (author), Jennifer Feeley (translator), Not Written Words, Zephyr Press and MCCM Creations, 2016. 152 pgs. Charles Bernstein in his essay in…
![[REVIEW] “Seeing Sounds and Tasting Words: Xi Xi’s 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠” by Jennifer Anne Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/not-written-words-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Ang Kia Yee, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Che Qianzi (author), Yunte Huang (translator), No Poetry: Selected Poems of Che Qianzi, Polymorph Editions, 2019. 177 pgs. The poems in No…
![[REVIEW] “Loving Anarchy: A Review of No Poetry” by Ang Kia Yee](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/no-poetry.jpg?w=707)
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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.} Sebastian Veg (editor), Popular Memories of the Mao Era: From Critical Debate to Reassessing History 毛時代的民間記憶：從批判性辯論到歷史的再評價, Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 256 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Underground resilience in Popular Memories of the Mao Era” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/popular-memories-of-the-mao-era-from-critical-debate-to-reassessing-history.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Yu Müller, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Che Qianzi (author), Yunte Huang (translator), No Poetry: Selected Poems of Che Qianzi, Polymorph Editions, 2019. 177 pgs. Che Qianzi’s bilingual poetry…
![[REVIEW] “Look at the Silence You See: A Review of Che Qianzi’s 𝑁𝑜 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑦” by Yu Müller](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/no-poetry-selected-poems-of-che-qianzi.png?w=1024)
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📁RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Strange Beasts. Yan Ge (author) and Jeremy Tiang (translator), Strange Beasts of China, Tilted Axis Press, 2020. 314 pgs. Strange Beasts of China begins with a…
![[REVIEW] “Asymmetric and Unexpected: A Review of 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Ari Santiago](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/strange-beasts-of-china-1.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Andrew Barker, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Stephen Griffiths, The Kowloon English Club, Blacksmith Books, 2021. 292 pgs. Andrew Barker discusses Stephen Griffiths’s expat Hong Kong novel about a…
![[REVIEW] “The Expatriate, Itinerant Underclass: A Review of Stephen Griffiths’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐾𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝐶𝑙𝑢𝑏” by Andrew Barker](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/the-kowloon-english-club.png?w=1024)
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📁RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Strange Beasts. Yan Ge (author) and Jeremy Tiang (translator), Strange Beasts of China, Tilted Axis Press, 2020. 314 pgs. Each of the stories in Yan Ge’s…
![[REVIEW] “The Unconcealed Rebellion, Cynicism, Bravery and Romanticism of Being Painfully Young: Yan Ge’s 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Jacqueline Leung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/strange-beasts-of-china.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Matthew Schneider-Mayerson (editor), Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environment Perspectives on Life in Singapore, Ethos Books, 2020. 276 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Greenwashed: A Review of 𝐸𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖 𝐶𝑟𝑎𝑏 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑒” by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/eating-chilli-crab-in-the-anthropocene-environment-perspectives-on-life-in-singapore-1.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Carlos Rojas (special issue editor), Method as Method, V16: N2 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Duke University Press, 2019. Twenty years ago, as a graduate student newly arrived in the…
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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.} Travis S. K. Kong, Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten 男男正傳︰香港年長男同志口述史, Hong Kong University Press, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “See How Much I Love You: Reviewing Travis S. K. Kong’s 𝑂𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑂𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐺𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/oral-histories-of-older-gay-men-in-hong-kong_travis-s-k-kong.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Joshua Bird, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} John Fitzgerald and Hon-ming Yip (editors), Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific 1850-1949 華僑慈善與環太平洋區的廣東人世界 1850–1949, Hong Kong University Press, 2020.…
![[REVIEW] “Building Bridges Across Both Countries and Cultures: A Review of Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific 1850-1949” by Joshua Bird](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/chinese-diaspora-charity-and-the-cantonese.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Vania Tabanelli, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} JinJin Xu, There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife, Radix Media, 2020. 35 pgs. JinJin Xu is a writer and filmmaker…
![[REVIEW] “A Laboratory of Fine Imagery: Reviewing JinJin Xu’s There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife” by Vania Tabanelli](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/there-is-still-singing-in-the-afterlife-by-jinjin-xu-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{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 Ho’s second book of poems, Too Too Too Too, is a book of tensions—between the styles of poetry…
![[REVIEW] “Too Too Too Too Is Not Too Much” by Lucas Klein](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 Elaine Chiew, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Hongwei Bao, Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature And Visual Culture Under Postsocialism, Routledge (London & New York, 2020), 213 pgs. Shaping…
![[REVIEW] “Hongwei Bao’s Queer China Under Neoliberalism with Socialist Characteristics” by Elaine Chiew](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/queer-china-lesbian-and-gay-literature-and-visual-culture-under-postsocialism-1.png?w=1024)
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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), Maoist Laughter (毛時代的笑), Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 232 pgs. Accounts of communist terror—for 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, Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl, Bitter Melon 苦瓜, 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 Ho’s second poetry collection Too Too Too…
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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 José Morales, Painter and Patron: The Maritime Silk Road in the Códice Casanatense, Abbreviated Press, 2020. 102…
![[REVIEW] “Quite Connected Centuries Ago: Reviewing Peter Gordon and Juan José 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, Stowing— I am…
![[REVIEW] “Fine Lines of Meteorology: Lan Lan’s 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑑𝑦” 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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