Category: Cha Review of Books and Films
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{Written by James Au Kin-Pong, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jun’ichirΕ Tanizaki (author), Phyllis I. Lyons (translator), In Black and White, Columbia University Press, 2018. 256 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Between Fiction and Reality: Jun’ichirΕ Tanizaki’s In Black and White” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/in-black-and-white1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this rejoinder is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read Susan Blumberg-Kason’s review of Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions here and Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz’s response…
![[Review] “Letter to the Editors” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/little-reunionse28094cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz, this rejoinder is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read Susan Blumberg-Kason’s review of Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions here and her response to…
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} β Rochelle Potkar, Paper Asylum, Copper Coin, 2018. 103 pgs. β Rochelle Potkar, Four Degrees of Separation, Paperwall Media, 2016.…
![[REVIEW] In the Country Where I Live: Two Collections by Rochelle Potkar](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/befunky-collage-24.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Paoi Wilmer, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Chi Pang-yuan (author), John Balcom (translator), The Great Flowing River: A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan,…
![[REVIEW] “Chi Pang-yuan’s πβπ πΊππππ‘ πΉπππ€πππ π
ππ£ππ: π΄ ππππππ ππ πΆβπππ, ππππ ππππβπ’πππ π‘π ππππ€ππ” by Paoi Wilmer](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-great-flowing-river1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Nina Powles, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nashua Gallagher, All the Words a Stage, Chameleon Press, 2018. 102 pgs. “They place me in new soil…
![[Review] There’s No Place Like Home: Nashua Gallagher’s All the Words a Stage](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/nashua-gallagher_all-the-words-a-stage.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by John W. Steele, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jenna Le, A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora, Indolent Books, 2018. 94 pgs. In this stunning…
![[Review] An Anatomy of Trauma: Jenna Le’s A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/jenna-le-a-history-of-the-cetacean-american-diaspora.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Maialen Marin-Lacarta, this review is part of Issue 42 (December 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Aili Mu (translator and editor) with Mike Smith (contributor), Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories: A Parallel Text, Columbia University…
![[REVIEW] “Spreading the Genre: A review of πΆπππ‘ππππππππ¦ πΆβππππ π πβπππ‘-πβπππ‘ ππ‘πππππ ” by Maialen Marin-Lacarta](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cha_review_contemporary-chinese-short-short-stories.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read a response from the translators of Little Reunions, Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz here and…
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{Written by Ronald Torrance, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Su Tong (author), Jane Weizhen Pan (translator) and Martin Merz (translator), Petulia’s Rouge Tin, Penguin, 2018. 106 pgs.…
![[Review] “Preserving the Unspoken Past: Su Tong’s Petulia’s Rouge Tin” by Ronald Torrance](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/9780734399496.jpg?w=400)
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kawika Guillermo, Stamped: An Anti-travel Novel, Westphalia, 2018. 360 pgs. He understood that need to escape, but…
![[REVIEW] “‘So punk in drublic’; or, ‘Stepping in her footprints to erase your being here’βKawika Guillermo’sΒ Stamped: An Anti-travel Novel” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/stamped1.jpg?w=313)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} This review contains spoilers to the entire franchise. Though highly celebrated commercially, Crazy Rich Asians the film also seems to…
![[REVIEW] “The Asian American Elite’s Victory: πΆπππ§π¦ π
ππβ π΄π ππππ in Print and on Screen” by Michael tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/crazy-rich-asians_cha-journal.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Sandro Lau, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} βΒ Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, The Infinite Library and Other Stories, Math Paper Press, 2017. 255 pgs. βΒ Patricia Karunungan,…
![[REVIEW] “Connections: πβπ πΌππππππ‘π πΏππππππ¦ and This is π»ππ€ πππ’ ππππ ππ π‘βπ ππππ” by Sandro Lau](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cha-review_singapore.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Anna Onni, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Shubigi Rao, Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book Volume I of V, Rock Paper Fire, 2016.…
![[Review] Shubigi Rao’s Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book Volume I of V](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/pulp1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} β Toh Hsien Min (author) and Jacques Rancourt (translator), Dans Quel Sens Tombent Les Feuilles, Editions Caracteres, 2016. 134…
![[REVIEW] “A Tame Paradise: Dans Quel Sens Tombent Les Feuilles and From Walden to Woodlands” by Kate Rogers](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cha-review_kate-rogers.jpg?w=1024)
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[REVIEW] “Reasons to Live: Rachel Heng’s ππ’πππππ πΆππ’π” by Joshua Ip
{Written by Joshua Ip, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Rachel Heng, Suicide Club, Henry Holt & Co, 2018. 352 pgs. Rachel Heng’s Suicide Club begins with a teaser…
![[REVIEW] “Reasons to Live: Rachel Heng’s ππ’πππππ πΆππ’π” by Joshua Ip](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/suicide-club1.jpg?w=647)
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{Written by Jerome Lim, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Alvin Pang, What Happened: Poems 1997β2017, Math Paper Press, 2018. 132 pgs. What Happened: Poems 1997β2017 is Alvin…
![[REVIEW] “Seemingly Undisputed Autonomy of the Lyric Ego: Alvin Pang’s πβππ‘ π»πππππππ” by Jerome Lim](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/alvin-pang_what-happened_math-paper-press.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Ow Yeong Wai Kit, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} β Amanda Chong, Professions, Math Paper Press, 2016. 61 pgs. β Jennifer Anne Champion, Caterwaul, Math Paper Press,…
![[REVIEW] “She Walks like a Free Country: A Review of Amanda Chong’s ππππππ π ππππ and Jennifer Anne Champion’s πΆππ‘πππ€ππ’π” by Ow Yeong Wai Kit](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/professions-and-caterwaul_cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Pow Jun Kai, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Zhang Ruihe and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (editors), In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel,…
![[REVIEW] “Still Very Much In Transit: A Review of An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel” by Pow Jun Kai](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/in-transit1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Stephanie Studzinski, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} β Audrey Chin, Nine Cuts, Math Paper Press, 2015. 102 pgs. β Desmond Kon Zhicheng-MingdΓ©, Babel Via Negativa, Ethos Books,…
![[REVIEW] “Dissecting Love and Language through Audrey Chin’s ππππ πΆπ’π‘π and Desmond Kon Zhicheng-MingdΓ©’s π΅ππππ π£ππ πππππ‘ππ£π” by Stephanie Studzinski](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/nine-cuts-and-babel-via-negativa_cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Mandy Chi Man Lo, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} βΒ Jeremy Tiang, State of Emergency, Epigram Books, 2016. 280 pgs. βΒ Loh Kah Seng, Thum Ping Tjin…
![[Review] “Multiple Narratives of Truth: Living with Myths in Singapore and State of Emergency” by Mandy Chi Man Lo](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/living-with-myths-in-singapore-and-state-of-emergency_header.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Al Lim, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Daryl Lim Wei Jie, A Book of Changes, Math Paper Press, 2016. 65 pgs. Meanwhile, what constructs Singapore?…
![[REVIEW] “Positions: Daryl Lim Wei Jie’s A Book of Changes” by Al Lim](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/bookofchanges_front_078e160a-9c71-4861-a841-247fdebb0332.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Chloe Leung, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Grace Chia, The Wanderlusters, Math Paper Press, 2016. 353 pgs. Reality is a masquerade for the Cirque Obelisque,…
![[Review] “Behold the Facelessness Behind False-Face”: Flirting with Desire in Grace Chia’s The Wanderlusters](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/grace-chia_wanderlusters.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Samantha Toh, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Cheryl Julia Lee, We Were Always Eating Expired Things, Math Paper Press, 2014. 52 pgs. I picked up…
![[REVIEW] “The Potential of the Poet: Cheryl Julia Lee’s ππ ππππ π΄ππ€ππ¦π πΈππ‘πππ πΈπ₯πππππ πβππππ ” by Samantha Toh](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/we-were-always-eating-expired-things.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Angus Whitehead, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jennifer Anne Champion, Caterwaul, Math Paper Press, 2016. 71 pgs. In the back-cover blurb of this collection, Jennifer…
![[Review] “Pain and Desire: Jennifer Anne Champion’s πΆππ‘πππ€ππ’π” by Angus Whitehead](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/jennifer-anne-champion.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Paul Jerusalem, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ng Yi-Sheng, A Book of Hims, Math Paper Press, 2017. 87 pgs. When 2008 Singapore Literature Prize winner…
![[REVIEW] Preaching to the Queer: Ng Yi-Sheng’s A Book of Hims](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/a-book-of-hims-white11.jpg?w=811)
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{Written by Ann Ang, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sharlene Teo, Ponti, Picador, 2018. 304 pages. Three women. The heady atmosphere of an all-girls school, redolent of…
![[Review] An Elegy for Female Friendship: Sharlene Teo’s Ponti](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sharlene-teo_ponti1.jpg?w=400)
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{Written by Theophilus Kwek, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} β Kirstin Chen, Bury What We Cannot Take, Little A, 2018. 275 pgs. β Suchen Christine Lim, The Man Who…
![[REVIEW] Stories for the Unseen: Kirstin Chen’s Bury What We Cannot Take and Suchen Christine Lim’s The Man Who Wore His Wife’s Sarong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/stories-of-the-unseen.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Ng Yi-Sheng, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} βΒ Kevin Martens Wong, Altered Straits, Epigram Books, 2017. 384 pgs. βΒ JY Yang, The Black Tides of Heaven, Tor.com,…
![[REVIEW] “The Rise of Queer Singaporean Sci-Fi: Kevin Martens Wong’s π΄ππ‘ππππ ππ‘ππππ‘π and JY Yang’s ππππ ππππ‘π Series” by Ng Yi-Sheng](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ng-yi-sheng_cha-review.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Angus Whitehead, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Samuel Lee, A Field Guide to Supermarkets in Singapore, Math Paper Press, 2016. 61 pgs. Recent Singapore poetry…
![[REVIEW] “Quirky Poems of Considerable Depth: A Review of Samuel Lee’s π΄ πΉππππ πΊπ’πππ π‘π ππ’πππππππππ‘π ππ πππππππππ” by Angus Whitehead](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/7b60e333243381-56a5ead0b252a.png?w=1024)
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