Category: Cha Review of Books and Films
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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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We are currently looking for books on or about the Philippines to review in the “Writing the Philippines” edition of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, scheduled for publication in June 2018. The guest editors of the issue areΒ Ricardo M. de…
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At Cha, we are expanding the Reviews section to include film reviews. We welcome reviews of films, both classic and more recent, that are set in Asia, explore Asian themes, depict Asian characters and/or have an Asian focus. Please first…
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{Written by Judy Wu, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Carol Dyer (editor), Imprint 16: The Annual Anthology of the Women in Publishing Society…
![[Review] A Rich Slice of Global Hong Kong: Imprint 16](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/imprint1.png?w=682)
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{Written by Nicholas Chan, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Guy Sanderson Shirra, The Accidental Prawn: “Interesting Times” β Policing 20th Century Hong Kong…
![[REVIEW] “Narrating Hong Kong Through the Handover: Guy Shirra’s πβπ π΄πππππππ‘ππ ππππ€π” by Nicholas Chan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/accidental-prawn.jpg?w=559)
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{Written by Janice Tsang, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Liu Waitong (author), Enoch Yee-lok Tam, Desmond Sham, Audrey Heijins, Chan Lai-kuen and Cao…
![[REVIEW] “Capturing Disappearing Hong Kong: Liu Waitong’s πππππππππ π»πππ πΎπππ π€ππ‘β ππππππ‘π ” by Janice Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/wandering-hong-kong.png?w=642)
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{Written by Liz Wan, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Viki Holmes, Girls’ Adventure Stories of Long Ago, Chameleon Press, 2017. 123 pgs. ‘If…
![[Review] Waltzing with Words: Viki Holmes’s Girls’ Adventure Stories of Long Ago](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/girls-adventure-stories.jpg?w=333)
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{Written by Natalie Liu, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Michael Kaan, The Water Beetles, Goose Lane, 2017. 360 pgs. The Water Beetles is a…
![[Review] A Story About a Memory: Michael Kaan’s The Water Beetles](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/water-beetles_cut.jpg?w=640)
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