Category: Cha Review of Books and Films
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{Written by Raphael Chim, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sreedhevi Iyer, Jungle without Water and Other Stories, Jetstone, 2017. 155 pgs. The back cover of Jungle without…
![[Review] “Sreedhevi Iyer’s Jungle without Water and Other Stories: A Response” by Raphael Chim](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/jungle-without-water_banner.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Xu Xi, This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being, University of Nebraska Press, 2019. 320 pgs. In her…
![[REVIEW] “A Cool Fish: Xu Xi’s πβππ πΉππ β ππ πΉππ€π: πΈπ π ππ¦π ππ π΅ππππ” by Kate Rogers](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/this-fish-is-fowl_banner.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Isabelle Lim, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Hamid Roslan, parsetreeforestfire, Ethos Books, 2019. 100 pgs. In the introduction to her collection on language poetry and…
![[REVIEW] “your mouth/will be a constant negotiation: Hamid Roslan’s ππππ ππ‘ππππππππ π‘ππππ” by Isabelle Lim](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/parsetreeforestfire.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Joshua Bird, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} David Walker, Stranded Nation: White Australia in an Asian Region, University of Western Australia Publishing, 2019. 528 pgs.…
![[Review] “Reframing Australia: David Walker’s Stranded Nation: White Australia in an Asian Region” by Joshua Bird](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/stranded-nation_white-australia.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Marsha McDonald , this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Eddie Tay, Anything You Can Get Away With: Creative Practices, Delere Press, 2018. 168 pgs. A star…
![[REVIEW] “Intercepting Identity: Eddie Tay’s π΄ππ¦π‘βπππ πππ’ πΆππ πΊππ‘ π΄π€ππ¦ πππ‘β” by Marsha McDonald](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/anything-you-can-get-away-with-1.jpg?w=907)
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{Written by Wei Ting Jen, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Teo You Yenn, This is What Inequality Looks Like, Ethos Books, 2018. 288 pgs. When I worked…
![[REVIEW] “Teo You Yenn’s πβππ ππ πβππ‘ πΌππππ’ππππ‘π¦ πΏππππ πΏπππ” by Wei Ting Jen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/this-is-what-inequality-looks-like-1.png?w=971)
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{Written by DragoΕ Ilca, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Matt Tuner, Not Moving, Broken Sleep Books, 2019. 48 pgs. I really wish there weren’t that many Matt…
![[REVIEW] “Lots of Tricks in Its Pages: Matt Turner’s Not Moving” by DragoΕ Ilca](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/not-moving_by-matt-turner-1.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Lindsay Varty (author), Gary Jones (photographs), Sunset Survivors: Meet the People Keeping Hong Kong’s Traditional Industries Alive, Blacksmith…
![[Review] “Sunset Survivors: Meet the People Keeping Hong Kong’s Traditional Industries Alive” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/sunset-survivors.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Grace Chia, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Maria Cheng, Tang Wai Hung and Eric Choy, Essential Terms of Chinese Painting, City University of Hong Kong…
![[REVIEW] “Chinese Art Encapsulated: Essential Terms of Chinese Painting” by Grace Chia](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/essential-terms-of-chinese-painting-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Perry Bayer, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Vaughan Rapatahana, Novel, Rangitawa Publishing, 2018. 320 pgs. Vaughan Rapatahana’s sophomore novel, neatly and appositely entitled Novel, is…
![[Review] “A Twisting and Turning Tornado of a Tale: Vaughan Rapatahana’s Novel” by Perry Bayer](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/vaughan-rapatahana.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mary Lynn Bracht, White Chrysanthemum, Chatto & Windus, 2018. 320 pgs. In White Chrysanthemum, Mary Lynn Bracht tells…
![[REVIEW] “War Is a Crime Against the World’s Women and Girls: Mary Lynn Bracht’s πβππ‘π πΆβππ¦π πππ‘βπππ’π” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/white-chrysanthemum_header.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by David W. Landrum, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wawa, Anna and Anna, Finishing Line Press, 2018. 26 pgs. The Hong Kong poet Wawa (who has…
![[Review] “Dualisms: Wawa’s Anna and Anna” by David W. Landrum](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/anna-and-anna-1.jpg?w=649)
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{Written by May Huang, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mi Jialu (author), Jennifer Feeley, Matt Turner, Haiying Weng, Lucas Klein, Michael Day, and Feng Yi (translators), Deep…
![[Review] “Songs of the Seasons: Mi Jialu’s Deep Breaths” by May Huang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/deep-breaths.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Isabelle Lim, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Philip Holden (editor), Hook and Eye: Stories from the Margins, Ethos Books, 2018. 216 pgs. In his introduction…
![[REVIEW] “Peripheral Visions: π»πππ πππ πΈπ¦π: ππ‘πππππ ππππ π‘βπ πππππππ ” by Isabelle Lim](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/hook-and-eye-1.jpg?w=627)
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{Written by Sumit Ray, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sumana Roy, Out of Syllabus: Poems, Speaking Tiger Books, 2019. 136 pgs. Sumana Roy’s first poetry collection, Out…
![[REVIEW] “A Writer of Rare Sensitivity: Sumana Roy’s Out of Syllabus: Poems” by Sumit Ray](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/out-of-syllabus-1.jpg?w=480)
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{Written by Cameron L. White, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} “City Issue: Hong Kong”, edited by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, World Literature Today, Volume 93 No. 2, University…
![[Review] “Seeing a City Through Words: The Hong Kong Issue of πππππ πΏππ‘ππππ‘π’ππ ππππ𦔠by Cameron L. White](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/hong-kong_world-literature-today.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Tom Marling, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Anna Wang, Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and the China Before and After,…
![[Review] “Pleasantly Inconsequential Insights: Anna Wang’s: Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and the China Before and After” by Tom Marling](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/inconvenient-memories_anna-wang.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Karen Kao, The Dancing Girl and the Turtle, Linen Press, 2017. 245 pgs. Karen Kao’s debut novel, the…
![[REVIEW] “Karen Kao’s The Dancing Girl and the Turtle” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/the-dancing-girl-and-the-turtle-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Kathy Yanbin Cai, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mingwei Song and Theodore Huters (editors), The Reincarnated Giant: Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction, Columbia University Press, 2018.…
![[REVIEW] “A Chinese New-Wave of Science Fiction: πβπ π
πππππππππ‘ππ πΊππππ‘: ππ€πππ‘π¦-πΉπππ π‘-πΆπππ‘π’ππ¦ πΆβππππ π πππππππ πΉπππ‘πππ” by Kathy Yanbin Cai](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/reincarnated-giant.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kai-Fu Lee, AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. 272 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Techno Dystopia: Ka-Fu Lee’s AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ai-super-powers.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Henrik Hoeg, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Joshua Ip, footnotes on falling, Math Paper Press, 2018. 70 pgs. Writing a review of a poetry collection…
![[REVIEW] “Why and How to Read Joshua Ip’s footnotes on falling” by Henrik Hoeg](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/footnotes-on-falling-1.jpeg?w=533)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Frank Langfitt, The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China, Public Affairs,…
![[Review] “When Past and Present Merge: Frank Langfitt’s The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/the-shanghai-free-taxi.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jennifer Anne Eagleton, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wayne Ng, Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu, Earnshaw Books, 2018. 280 pgs. Finding the…
![[Review] “Wayne Ng’s πΉππππππ π‘βπ πππ¦: π΄ πππ£ππ ππ πΏππ ππ§π’” by Jennifer Anne Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/finding-the-way_wayne-ng-1.png?w=544)
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{Written by David W. Landrum, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mao Xiang (author), Jan Fang and Lifang He (translators), The Romance of a Literatus and his Concubine…
![[REVIEW] “Love Among the Ruins: πβπ π
ππππππ ππ π πΏππ‘ππππ‘π’π πππ βππ πΆππππ’ππππ ππ πππ£πππ‘ππππ‘β-πΆπππ‘π’ππ¦ πΆβπππ” by David W. Landrum](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/the-romance-of-a-literatus-and-his-concubine-in-seventeenth-century-china-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Marsha McDonald, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Leanne Dunic, To Love the Coming End, Chin Music Press, 2017. 98 pgs. Leanne Dunic’s first novel, To…
![[REVIEW] “Remains Of: Leanne Dunic’s ππ πΏππ£π π‘βπ πΆπππππ πΈππ” by Marsha McDonald](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/to-love-the-coming-end-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Aakriti Kuntal, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Kiriti Sengupta. Kiriti Sengupta, Rituals, Hawakal Publishers, 2019. 100 pgs. Rituals, Kiriti Sengupta’s newest…
![[Review] “Ethereal Algorithms of Life: Kiriti Sengupta’s Rituals” by Aakriti Kuntal](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/kiriti-sengupta_rituals-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Lindsay Shen, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jason Wee, An Epic of Durable Departures, Math Paper Press, 2018. 85 pgs. Jason Wee’s Epic of Durable…
![[REVIEW] “Jason Wee’s An Epic of Durable Departures” by Lindsay Shen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/epic-of-durable-departments_jason-wee.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by David Haysom, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Can Xue (author), Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (translator), Love in the New Millennium, Yale University Press, 2018. 288 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Delightful Absurdities: Can Xue’s πΏππ£π ππ π‘βπ πππ€ πππππππππ’π” by David Haysom](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/new-love.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Ka-chi Cheuk, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Gao Xingjian (author), Gilbert C. F. Fong (translator), Wandering Mind and Metaphysical Thoughts, The Chinese University Press,…
![[REVIEW] “The Hedgehog and the Worm: Gao Xingjian’s πππππππππ ππππ πππ πππ‘ππβπ¦π ππππ πβππ’πβπ‘π ” by Michael Ka-chi Cheuk](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gao-xingjian.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Pinky Lui Chung-Man, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Marshall Moore, Inhospitable, Camphor Press, 2018. 302 pgs. Ghosts are real in Marshall Moore’s Inhospitable. Either as…
![[Review] “Ghosts in the Flesh: Marshall Moore’s Inhospitable” by Pinky Lui Chung-Man](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/inhospitable_moore.jpg?w=1024)
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