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Category: Charlie Ng

[REVIEW] “The Fantasy of Wholeness through Body Horror in Hon Lai-chu’s 𝑀𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 and Michael Shanks’s 𝑇𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟” by Charlie Ng

📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Mending Bodies. ▞ Hon Lai Chu (author), Jacqueline Leung (translator), Mending Bodies, Two Lines Press, 2025. 240 pgs.▞ Michael Shanks (director), Together, 2025. 102 min.…

Oct 8, 2025
[REVIEW] “Re-evaluating ‘Women’s Literature’ as a Category: Hayashi Fumiko as a Woman Writer in Modern Japan” by Charlie Ng

📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Joan E. Ericson, Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women’s Literature, University of Hawai’i Press, 1997. 292 pgs. The vicissitudes of women’s literature in Japan have undergone…

Sep 10, 2025
[REVIEW] “Between Rupture and Continuity: Charting Anachronistic Literary Modernity in Satoru Hashimoto’s 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠” by Charlie Ng

📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Afterlives. Satoru Hashimoto, Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea, Columbia University Press,…

Jul 12, 2025
[JUST ANOTHER DAY] Charlie Ng

📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY My Ordinary Experience The year the event took place I was almost four years old. I only had vague and fragmented memories of some TV footage of things burning, people running, and my mom’s crying…

Jun 4, 2023