Category: Cha Review of Books and Films
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{Written by Isabelle Lim, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {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: 𝐻𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑦𝑒: 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑠” 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 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑇𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦” 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.} {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.} {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: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐺𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑡: 𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦-𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡-𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑦 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝐹𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” 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.} {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.} {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.} {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 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑦: 𝐴 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑎𝑜 𝑇𝑧𝑢” 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: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑢𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑡ℎ-𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑦 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” 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.} {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 𝑇𝑜 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑛𝑑” 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.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on 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.} {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 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑢𝑚” 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 𝑊𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠” 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.} {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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{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 𝑈𝑛𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘” 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 Dragoş 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 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝐹𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑡” by Dragoş 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.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Greg Santos, Blackbirds, Eyewear Publishing, 2018. 44 pgs. ❀ 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 Ōoka (author), Janine Beichman (translator), Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets: Selected Poems, Kurodahan Press, 2018.…
![[Review] “Poetry Universe: Makoto Ōoka’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.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ 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.} {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.} {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.} {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.} ❀ Kirsten Han, The Silhouette of Oppression, Epigram Books, 2019. 48 pgs. ❀ 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.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Kit Kelen, As to the ladders of whichway, ASM, 2014. 165 pgs. ❀ 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.} {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: 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑠’ 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑡: 𝐴 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/a-novel-from-ming-china.jpg?w=1024)
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