Category: Cha Review of Books and Films
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{Written by Patrick Jiang, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Gwee Li Sui,Β Spiaking Singlish: A Companion to How Singaporeans Communicate, Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2017. 200 pgs. As it…
![[REVIEW] “The Joys of Spiaking Singlish: Or, Rather, Reading It: Gwee Li Sui’s ππππππππ πππππππ β” by Patrick Jiang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/krsea-spiaking-singlish-a-companion-to-how-singaporeans-communicate-678x381.jpg?w=678)
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{Written by Nina Powles, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Grace Chia, Mother of All Questions, Math Paper Press, 2017. 89 pgs. I am not your creation. I…
![[REVIEW] “I Am Not Your Creation: Grace Chia’s πππ‘βππ ππ π΄ππ ππ’ππ π‘ππππ ” by Nina Powles](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mother-of-all-questions.jpg?w=480)
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{Written by Carolyn Lau, this review is part of Issue 40 (July 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Alma Cruz Miclat, Soul Searchers and Dreamers: Artists’ Profiles, Maningning Miclat Art Foundation and Erehwon Centre for the…
![[Review] Looking for Idealism: Alam Cruz Miclat’s Soul Searchers and Dreamers](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/soul_and_searchers_artist_profiles_alma_cruz_miclat-4_1024x1024.jpg?w=590)
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{Written by Janice Tsang, this review is part of Issue 40 (July 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Monette Bichsel, Lenny Kaye Bugayong and Lily C. Fen (editors), Bending Without Breaking: Thirteen Women’s Stories of Migration…
![[Review] Bending Without Breaking: Thirteen Women’s Stories of Migration and Resilience](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/bending.png?w=266)
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{Written by Karlo Antonio Galay David, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Christine Godinez-Ortega (editor), Mindanao Harvest 3: An Anthology of Retold Tales of Mindanao, National Commission for…
![[REVIEW] “Tales Told and Retold: ππππππππ π»πππ£ππ π‘ 3” by Karlo Antonio Galay David](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mindanao-harvest-21.jpg?w=576)
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{Written by Chloe Leung, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Marguerite Alcazaren de Leon, People in Panic, Cor Asia, 2015. 115 pgs. “I found a floating head in…
![[REVIEW] “What The Head?: Marguerite de Leon’s ππππππ ππ πππππ” by Chloe Leung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/panic.jpeg?w=620)
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{Written by Goh Cheng Fai Zach, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Johanna Michelle Lim, What Distance Tells Us: Travel Essays about the Philippines, Bathalad, 2018. 166 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Escape to the Periphery: Johanna Michelle Lim’s πβππ‘ π·ππ π‘ππππ πππππ ππ ” by Goh Cheng Fai Zach](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/distance.png?w=359)
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{Written by Natalia Delazari, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Angelo R. Lacuesta, Coral Cove and Other Stories, University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2017. 155 pgs. With…
![[Review] A Literary Archipelago: Angelo R. Lacuesta’s Coral Cove](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/coral-cove.jpg?w=583)
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{Written by Alfred A. Yuson, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Francis C. Macansantos, Snail Fever, University of the Philippines Press, 2016. 109 pgs. I always hark back…
![[REVIEW] “Francis C. Macansantos: Poet of Light” by Alfred A. Yuson](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/snail-fever1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Sandro Lau, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} David R. Brubaker, Liberace’s Filipino Cousin, ThingsAsian Press, 2016. 160 pgs. In his anthology Liberace’s Filipino Cousin, David…
![[Review] David R. Brubaker’s Liberace’s Filipino Cousin](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/liberaces-filipino-cousin.jpeg?w=750)
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{Written by Christian Benitez, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Charlie Samuya Veric, Histories, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2015. 109 pgs. In Charlie Veric’s collection Histories catastrophe…
![[REVIEW] “Misreading Usual Catachresis: Charlie Samuya Veric’s π»ππ π‘πππππ ” by Christian Benitez](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/histories.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jennifer Mackenzie, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tim Tomlinson, Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, Finishing Line Press, 2015. In November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, known…
![[Review] Witnesses to Haiyan: Tim Tomlinson’s Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/tomlinson.jpg?w=574)
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{Written by Jason G. Coe, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Christopher B. Patterson, Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific, Rutgers University Press, 2018. 256 pgs. Collective…
![[Review] Systems of Identification: Christopher B. Patterson’s Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/transitive.png?w=864)
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Stephanie Han, Swimming in Hong Kong, Willow Spring Books, 2017. 134 pgs. On the surface, “Swimming in Hong…
![[REVIEW] “Connection and Marginalisation: Stephanie Han’s ππ€ππππππ ππ π»πππ πΎπππ” by Kate Rogers](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/swimming-in-hong-kong1.png?w=630)
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{Written by Goh Cheng Fai Zach, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Malachi Edwin Vethamani (author), Complicated Lives, Maya Press, 2016. 112 pgs. Malachi Edwin Vethamani (editor), Malchin…
![[REVIEW] “A Review of Two Books of Malaysian Poetry: πΆππππππππ‘ππ πΏππ£ππ and ππππβππ πππ π‘πππππ‘” by Goh Cheng Fai Zach](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/malachi-edwin-vethamani.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wesley Leon Aroozoo (author), Miki Hawkinson (translator), I Want to Go Home, Math Paper Press, 2017. 222 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Memory, Trauma, Love: Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s πΌ ππππ‘ π‘π πΊπ π»ππποΌεΈ°γγγ” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/i-want-to-go-home.png?w=833)
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{Written by Kevin Tan Kwan Wei, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Warran Kalasegaran, Lieutenant Kurosawa’s Errand Boy, Epigram Books, 2017. 336 pgs. Warran Kalasegaran’s debut novel, Lieutenant…
![[REVIEW] “Burying the Spoils of War: Warran Kalsegaran’s πΏπππ’π‘πππππ‘ πΎπ’πππ ππ€π’π πΈπππππ π΅π𦔠by Kevin Tan Kwan Wei](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ebfp-errandboy_cvf_300_1024x1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Grace Chia, this review is part of Issue 39 (March 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Jang Hoon (director), A Taxi Driver (Taeksi Woonjunsa), 2017. 137 min. A Taxi Driver is set during the…
![[REVIEW] “Becoming a Hero: Jang Hoon’s A Taxi Driver” by Grace Chia](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/driver.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Matt Turner, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Paul French, Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day, Penguin, 2017. 116 pgs. Most general summaries of Shanghai are too…
![[Review] Shanghai Swan Song: Paul French’s Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/bloody-saturday.jpg?w=400)
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{Written by Vivian Tang, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Chung Man Yee (director), And I Hate You So (Siu chan chan), 2000. 96 min. At the start…
![[Review] Vinyl Love: Chung Man Yee’s And I Hate You So](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/siu-chan-chan-hong-kong-movie-poster.jpg?w=500)
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{Written by Wong Wen Pu, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Boey Kim Cheng, Gull Between Heaven and Earth, Epigram Books, 2017. 288 pgs. The Chinese are never…
![[Review] Longing for Home: Boey Kim Cheng’s Gull Between Heaven and Earth](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/gull1.png?w=331)
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{Written by Brian Haman, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mohamed Latiff Mohamed (author), Nazry Bahrawi (translator), Lost Nostalgia, Ethos Books, 2017. 200 pgs. One of modernity’s defining…
![[REVIEW] “There Is Much that His Narratives Can Offer the World: Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s πΏππ π‘ πππ π‘πππππ” by Brian Haman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/lost_big.jpg?w=660)
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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wu He (author), Michael Berry (translator), Remains of Life, Columbia University Press, 2017. 352 pgs. Remains of…
![[REVIEW] “Remembering the Musha Incident: Wu He’s π
ππππππ ππ πΏπππ” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/remains.jpg?w=350)
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{Written by Rochelle Potkar, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kate Rogers, Out of Place, Aeolous House, 2017. 65 pgs. Kate Rogers’ latest collection of poetry, Out of…
![[REVIEW] The Solution Is to Read Slowly: Kate Rogers’s Out of Place](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/out-of-place1.jpg?w=311)
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{Written by Matt Turner, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kaitlin Solimine, Empire of Glass, Ig Publishing, 2017. 297 pgs. When Wang Guanmiao, future husband of Huang Li-ming,…
![[Review] Revolutionary Practice: Kaitlin Solimine’s Empire of Glass](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/empire-of-glass1.png?w=417)
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{Written by Maja Milatovic, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Lachlan Brown, Lunar Inheritance, Giramondo Publishing Company, 2017. 96 pgs. Questions of identity and self-definition hold a special…
![[REVIEW] “Shifting Terrains: Movement and Identity in Lachlan Brown’s πΏπ’πππ πΌπβππππ‘ππππ” by Maja Milatovic](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/lunar-inheritance_brown.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Henry Wei Leung, Goddess of Democracy:…
![[REVIEW] “Eloquence, Anger, SincerityβHenry Wei Leung’s πΊπππππ π ππ π·ππππππππ¦: π΄π ππππ’ππ¦ πΏπ¦πππ” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/leung-goddess-cover-21.jpg?w=900)
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{Written by Mark Stevenson, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nguyα» n HΖ°ng Quα»c and NhΓ£ ThuyΓͺn (editors), Poems of LΓͺ VΔn TΓ i, Nguyα» n TΓ΄n Hiα»t & Phan Quα»³nh…
![[Review] Three Vietnamese Voices in Australia: Poems of LΓͺ VΔn TΓ i, Nguyα»
n TΓ΄n Hiα»t & Phan Quα»³nh](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/vagabond.jpg?w=450)
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[REVIEW] “Rich and Varied: Richard Berengarten’s πΆβππππππ” by Eleanor Goodman
{Written by EleanorΒ Goodman, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Richard Berengarten, Changing, Shearsman Books, 2016, 563 pgs. What should one make of the Yijing (ζηΆ), that book that…
![[REVIEW] “Rich and Varied: Richard Berengarten’s πΆβππππππ” by Eleanor Goodman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/yi.jpg?w=680)
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{Written by Amanda Cattel, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Ang Lee. Ang Lee (director),Β Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin shi nan nΓΌ), 1994. 123…
![[REVIEW] “The Recipe for Embracing Biformity: Ang Lee’s πΈππ‘ π·ππππ πππ πππππ” by Amanda Cattel](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/meal.jpg?w=800)
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