Category: Cha Review of Books and Films
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{Written by Aurelio Asiain, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Gergana Ivanova, Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic, Columbia University Press, 2018. 240…
![[Review] “An Incessantly Growing, Proliferating, Echoing Book: Gergana Ivanova’s πππππππππ πβπ ππππππ€ π΅πππ” by Aurelio Asiain](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/unbinding-the-pillow-book-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by DragoΕ Ilca, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sheng Keyi (author), Shelly Bryant (translator), Wild Fruit, Penguin, 2018. 350 pgs. Wild Fruit is split into three…
![[REVIEW] “Building It Up So That It May Fall Again: Sheng Keyi’s ππππ πΉππ’ππ‘” by DragoΕ Ilca](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/wild-fruit-sheng-keyi-review.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Xu Xi, Insignificance, Typhoon Media/Signal 8 Press, 2018. 190 pgs. Compared to her previous work, the stories in…
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{Written by Stephanie Studzinski, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} βΒ Greg Santos, Blackbirds, Eyewear Publishing, 2018. 44 pgs. βΒ Anuradha Vijayakrishnan, The Who-Am-I Bird, Bombaykala Books, 2018. 70 pgs.…
![[Review] “Four Birds of a Far Flown Feather: Four Poetry Collections” by Stephanie Studzinski](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/stephanie-studzinski_cha-review.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Konstandinos Mahoney, Tutti Frutti, SPM Publications, 2018. 78 pgs. Tutti Frutti is a wonderful collection of condensed, original,…
![[REVIEW] “The Love Songs of Dino Mahoney” by Kate Rogers](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tutti-frutti_cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Claire Cuccio, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Makoto Εoka (author), Janine Beichman (translator), Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets: Selected Poems, Kurodahan Press, 2018.…
![[Review] “Poetry Universe: Makoto Εoka’s Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets: Selected Poems” by Claire Cuccio](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/beneath-the-sleepless_cha-review.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Carolyn Lau, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} βΒ Huang Lihai (author), Kit Kelen and Chris Song (translators), feed birds rainbows, ASM and Cerberus Press, 2014. 132…
![[REVIEW] “On Three Bilingual Pocket Books by Poet-travellers” by Carolyn Lau](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/three-bilingual-books.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jason Y. Ng and Susan Blumberg-Kason (editors), Hong Kong Noir, Akashic and Blacksmith Books, 2018. 256 pgs. Elegiac…
![[REVIEW] “Hong Kong Noir” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/hong-kong-noir_cha.jpg?w=509)
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{Written by Mario Rustan, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Patrick H. Hase, Forgotten Heroes: San On County and its Magistrates in the Late Ming and Early Qing,…
![[Review] “Hong Kong Noir 1688: Patrick H. Hase’s Forgotten Heroes: San On County and its Magistrates in the Late Ming and Early Qing” by Mario Rustan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/forgotten-heroes_cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ivy Ngeow, Heart of Glass, Unbound Digital, 2018. 256 pgs. I was in New York in January for…
![[Review] “Love and Longing in Macau: Ivy Ngeow’s Heart of Glass” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/heart-of-glass_asian-cha-review.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Wong Wen Pu, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} β Kirsten Han, The Silhouette of Oppression, Epigram Books, 2019. 48 pgs. β Alfian Sa’at, A Manifesto for Arts…
![[REVIEW] “Rational Conversations: Some Essays on Political and Civic Sustainability in Singapore” by Wong Wen Pu](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/rational-conversations-2.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Ophelia Tung Ho Yiu, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} βΒ Kit Kelen,Β As to the ladders of whichway, ASM, 2014. 165 pgs. βΒ Roger Palmer and Tim Simpson,…
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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Quelling the Demons’ Revolt: A Novel from Ming China, Luo Guanzhong (attributed author) Patrick Hanan (translator), Columbia…
![[REVIEW] “My Kind of Demons: ππ’ππππππ π‘βπ π·πππππ ’ π
ππ£πππ‘: π΄ πππ£ππ ππππ ππππ πΆβπππ” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/a-novel-from-ming-china.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yi T’aejun (author), Janet Poole (translator),…
![[Review] “Deep down he felt a little jealous of his own writing; or, time never passes as quickly as when holding a penβYi T’aejun’s π·π’π π‘ πππ ππ‘βππ ππ‘πππππ ” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/dust-and-other-stories_asian-cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Gabrielle Flores, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Gina Apostol, Insurrecto, Soho Press, 2018. 336 pgs. It’s hard to begin a review for a novel that…
![[REVIEW] “The Frustrating Elegance of Gina Apostol’s πΌππ π’πππππ‘π” by Gabrielle Flores](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gina-apostols-insurrecto.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jennifer Mackenzie, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Brian Castro & John Young, Macau Days, Art+Australia Publishing, 2017. 187 pgs. For more than five centuries, the…
![[Review] “A Trilingual History of Benevolence: Brian Castro & John Young’s πππππ’ π·ππ¦π ” by Jennifer Mackenzie](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/macau-days_cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nigel Collett, A Death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal,…
![[REVIEW] “Nigel Collett’s π΄ π·πππ‘β ππ π»πππ πΎπππ: πβπ ππππΏπππππ πΆππ π ππ 1980 πππ π‘βπ ππ’πππππ π πππ ππ π πππππππ” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/a-death-in-hong-kong_cropped.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Christina Yi, Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea, Columbia University Press,…
![[REVIEW] “Uncontrollable Forces: Christina Yi’s πΆππππππ§πππ πΏππππ’πππ: πΆπ’ππ‘π’πππ πππππ’ππ‘πππ πππ πΏππππ’πππ πππππ‘πππ ππ ππππππ π½ππππ πππ πΎππππ” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/colonizing-language-1.png?w=384)
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{Written by Chloe Leung, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Cheryl Pallant, Ginseng Tango, Big Table Publishing Company, 2017. 211 pgs. Ginseng: a slow-growing and energy-boosting plant found…
![[Review] “A Tangoed Soul with Tangled Roots: Cheryl Pallant’s Ginseng Tango” by Chloe Leung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ginseng-Tango.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} β Cindy Rinne, Quiet Lantern: A Novel in Verse, Turning Point Books, 2016. 116 pgs. β Khairani Barokka, Rope, Nine…
![[REVIEW] “Soldiers of the Heart: Poetry by Cindy Rinne, Khairani Barokka and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta” by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Alana-Leilani-Teves-Cabrera-Narciso-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sarge Lacuesta, A Waiting Room Companion, BUGHAW, 2017. 188 pgs. As I looked at the cover of A…
![[REVIEW] “Poor, Rich Kid: Sarge Lacuesta’s A Waiting Room Companion” by AlanaΒ Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/A-Waiting-Room-Companion_Sarge-Lacuesta.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Grace Chia, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Liu Yiqing (compiler), ZhenJun Zhang (editor and translator), Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the…
![[Review] “Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic” by Grace Chia](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hidden-and-Visible-Realms-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wendy Chen, Unearthings, Tavern Books, 2018. 104 pgs. In her debut poetry collection Unearthings, Wendy Chen muses on…
![[Review] “Reading History Slowly: Wendy Chen’s Unearthings” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Unearthings-1.jpg?w=386)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} TarΕ Naka (author), Andrew Houwen and Chikako Nihei (translators), Music: Selected Poems, Isobar Press, 2018. 138 pgs. TarΕ…
![[REVIEW] “Take on the Challenge: TarΕ Naka’s ππ’π ππ: ππππππ‘ππ πππππ ” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Music_Selected-Poems.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Artemis Lin, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Bi Gan (director), Kaili Blues (Lu bian ye can), 2015. 113 min. What is a place? Is it…
![[Review] “Forging Dreams Through Time: Bi Gan’s Kaili Blues” by Artemis Lin](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Kaili-Blues.png?w=1024)
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[Review] “Unravelling Taiwan: Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman’s Formosa Moon” by Joyce Lau
{Written by Joyce Lau, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman, Formosa Moon, ThingsAsian Press, 2018. 336 pgs. Smangus, the most remote village…
![[Review] “Unravelling Taiwan: Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman’s Formosa Moon” by Joyce Lau](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Formosa-Moon_Asian-Cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Zeny May Dy Recidoro, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane (editors), Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval…
![[REVIEW] “The Liberated Mind: ππππ π‘πππ , π΄ππππππ , πππ ππ‘βππ ππππππ : A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales” by Zeny May Dy Recidoro](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Monsters-Animals-and-Other-Worlds-A-Collection-of-Short-Medieval-Japanese-Tales-1.jpg?w=350)
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{Written by Swathi Parasuraman, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, 2017. 240 pgs. I remember reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist two years ago.…
![[REVIEW] “A Refugee Love Story: Moshin Hamid’s πΈπ₯ππ‘ πππ π‘” by Swathi Parasuraman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/exit-west_asian-cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Daryl Lim Wei Jie, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Yang Mu (author), Michelle Yeh (editor), Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems, Columbia University Press, 2018.…
![[REVIEW] “Yang Mu’s Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems” by Daryl Lim Wei Jie](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/hawk-of-the-mind1.jpg?w=900)
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{Written by Angela Qian, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Natsume SΕseki. John Nathan, SΕseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist, Columbia University Press, 2018. 344…
![[REVIEW] SΕseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/sc58dseki.jpg?w=1024)
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