Category: Columbia University Press
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Reading Cinema Beyond Geopolitics: Rey Chow’s Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films” by Jessica Morris Rey Chow. Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility, Columbia University…
![[ESSAY] “Reading Cinema Beyond Geopolitics: Rey Chow’s 𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐹𝑎𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐹𝑖𝑙𝑚𝑠” by Jessica Morris](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/sentimental-fabulations-contemporary-chinese-films-attachment-in-the-age-of-global-visibility.jpg?w=455)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “A Librarian’s Take on Zheng Liu’s Cultural Mavericks: The Business and Politics of Independent Bookselling in China” by Raymond Pun Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Cultural Mavericks. Zheng Liu, Cultural…
![[REVIEW] “A Librarian’s Take on Zheng Liu’s 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑀𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑠: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Raymond Pun](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cultural-mavericks-the-business-and-politics-of-independent-bookselling-in-china.jpg?w=971)
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[ESSAY] “Shelves, Stories, and Silence: Reading Zheng Liu’s 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑀𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑠” by Laurence Westwood
茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Shelves, Stories, and Silence: Reading Zheng Liu’s Cultural Mavericks” by Laurence Westwood Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Cultural Mavericks. Zheng Liu, Cultural Mavericks: The Business and Politics of Independent Bookselling in…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Aesthetic Experiences: A Study of Anri Yasuda’s Beauty Matters” by Luca Griseri Anri Yasuda, Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890–1930, Columbia University Press, 2024. 304…
![[ESSAY] “Aesthetic Experiences: A Study of Anri Yasuda’s 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠” by Luca Griseri](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/https-__m.media-amazon.com_images_i_819sezp2oml._sl1500_.jpg.jpg?w=1000)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “From Silence to Sound: Kaori Lai’s Microhistorical Poetics of the White Terror” by Serena De Marchi Kaori Lai (author), Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt (translators), Portraits in White, Columbia…
![[REVIEW] “From Silence to Sound: Kaori Lai’s Microhistorical Poetics of the White Terror” by Serena De Marchi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/portraits-in-white-by-kaori-lai.png?w=1024)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Power of Multilingual Inquiry: Mapping Intra-Asian Relations Beyond Binaries—Satoru Hashimoto’s Afterlives of Letters” by Jennifer Junwa Lau Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon Afterlives. Satoru Hashimoto, Afterlives…
![[REVIEW] “The Power of Multilingual Inquiry: Mapping Intra-Asian Relations Beyond Binaries—Satoru Hashimoto’s 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠” by Jennifer Junwa Lau](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/afterlives-of-letters-the-transnational-origins-of-modern-literature-in-china-japan-and-korea.jpg?w=1000)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Robin Visser, Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan, Columbia University Press, 2023. 352 pgs. In recent years, the escalating global urgency surrounding ecological crises has prompted renewed…
![[REVIEW] “Relational Ecologies and the Displacement of Borders: Reading Visser’s Sinophone Environmental Imaginary” by Sonalika Chaturvedi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/questioning-borders-ecoliteratures-of-china-and-taiwan-columbia-university-press.jpg?w=1000)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Donald Keene, The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku, Columbia University Press, 2016. 288 pgs. At the age of fifteen, I first encountered the Chinese translation of…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “A Poet’s Most Unvarnished Desires and Defeats: Donald Keene’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒” by Jiahe Chen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/the-first-modern-japanese-the-life-of-ishikawa-takuboku-2.jpg?w=1000)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Send in the Marines: Yao-Chang Chen’s Puppet Flower” by Jeff Tompkins Yao-Chang Chen (author), Pao-Fang Hsu, Ian Maxwell, and Tung-Jung Chen (translators). Puppet Flower: A Novel of 1867 Formosa. Columbia…
![[REVIEW] “Send in the Marines: Yao-Chang Chen’s 𝑃𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑡 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟” by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/puppet-flower-a-novel-of-1867-formosa.jpg?w=972)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Original and Surreal: Yun Ko-eun’s Table for One” by Jack Greenberg Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Table for One. Yun Ko-eun (author), Lizzie Buehler (translator), Table for One: Stories, Columbia University…
![[REVIEW] “Original and Surreal: Yun Ko-eun’s 𝑇𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑂𝑛𝑒” by Jack Greenberg](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/yun-ko-eun_table-for-one.png?w=1024)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “To Experience A World That No Longer Exists: Ch’oe Myŏngik’s Patterns of the Heart” by Jack Greenberg Ch’oe Myŏngik (author), Janet Poole (translator), Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories,…
![[REVIEW] “To Experience A World That No Longer Exists: Ch’oe Myŏngik’s 𝑃𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡” by Jack Greenberg](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/patterns-of-the-heart-1.jpg?w=966)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Slightly Off-kilter Worlds: Yun Ko-eun’s Table for One” by Jennifer Eagleton Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Table for One. Yun Ko-eun (author), Lizzie Buehler (translator), Table for One: Stories, Columbia University…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (author), Anthony H. Chambers & Paul McCarthy (translators), Longing and Other Stories, Columbia University Press, 2022. 145 pgs. Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Longing and Other Stories, translated by Anthony…
![[REVIEW] “Clash of Ideas: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” BY JAMES KIN-PONG AU](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/longing-and-other-stories_cha.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Dung Kai-cheung (author), Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson (translators), A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On, Columbia University Press, 2022. 218 pgs. First published in…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Aesthetics of Obsolescence: Dung Kai-cheung’s 𝐴 𝐶𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑓𝑓 𝑎𝑠 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑂𝑛” by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/a-catalog-of-such-stuff-as-dreams-are-made-on_cha-banner.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Perhat Tursun (author), Darren Byler and Anonymous (translators), The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang, Columbia University Press, 2022. 168 pgs. A man leaves an office in Ürümqi, and starts walking. The sun…
![[REVIEW] “A Psychoanalytical Auto-fictional Biography of a City: Perhat Tursun’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠” by Serena De Marchi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/the-backstreets-perhat-tursun.png?w=1024)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Divination, Philosophy, and Change: The Original Meaning of the Yijing: Commentary on the Scripture of Change” by Tim Murphy Zhu Xi (author), Joseph A. Adler (translator and editor), The Original…
![[REVIEW] “Divination, Philosophy, and Change: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 Yijing: 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒” by Tim Murphy](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/original-meaning-of-the-yijing-zhu-xi-joseph-a-adler.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Simon Wickhamsmith (translator), Suncranes and Other Stories: Modern Mongolian Short Fiction, Columbia University Press, 2021. 296 pgs. As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt international travel, entry into Mongolia remains…
![[REVIEW] “A Glimpse into Mongolia: 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by Sarah Köksal](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/suncranes-and-other-stories_cha-review.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tsering Döndrup (author), Christopher Peacock (translator), The Handsome Monk and Other Stories, Columbia University Press, 2019. 216 pgs. Tsering Döndrup’s The Handsome Monk and Other Stories shows that literatures from less visible…
![[REVIEW] “Noir Fables of Tibet: Tsering Döndrup’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/the-handsome-monk-and-other-stories_asian-cha.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Tim Murphy, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} 茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Canonical Stories, Replacement Texts: A Review of The Japanese Discovery of Chinese…
![[REVIEW] “Canonical Stories, Replacement Texts: A Review of 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐹𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” by Tim Murphy](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/william-c.-hedberg-the-japanese-discovery-of-chinese-fiction.jpeg?w=870)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Layered Spaces: A Review of Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes” by Serena De Marchi Chi Ta-wei (author), Ari Larissa Heinrich (translator), The Membranes, Columbia University Press, 2021. 168 pgs. Chi Ta-wei’s classic of…
![[REVIEW] “Layered Spaces: A Review of Chi Ta-wei’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠” by Serena De Marchi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/layered-spaces-a-review-of-chi-ta-weis-the-membranes-1.png?w=1024)
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{Written by James Au Kin-Pong, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Minae Mizumura (author), Juliet Winters Carpenter (translator; in collaboration with the author), An I-Novel, Columbia University Press, 2021. 325 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Pursuing Her Japanese Identity: A Review of Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/an-i-novel-minae-mizumura-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Chase Michael Greenfield, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Quan Manh Ha and Joseph Babcock (translators and editors), Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its…
![[REVIEW] “What We Never Carried Back: A Review of Vietnamese Stories in 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑠” by Chase Michael Greenfield](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/other-moons-vietnamese-short-stories.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Amy L. Atchison and Shauna L. Shames, Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics, Columbia University Press, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “Not Definitive: A Review of Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/survide-and-resist_amy-l-atchison-shauna-l-shames.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Vincenz Serrano, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jacob Edmond, Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media, Columbia University Press, 2019. 360 pgs. In…
![[REVIEW] “Iteration’s Itineraries: A Review of Jacob Edmond’s Make It the Same” by Vincenz Serrano](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/make-it-the-same-poetry-in-the-age-of-global-media-jacob-edmond-1.jpg?w=1024)
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Abstract Hong Kong has long been depicted as a trading gateway between China and the rest of the world, to the profit of all three parties. Dung Kai-cheung 董启章, one of Hong Kong’s most highly regarded novelists, reveals ways in which…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Recollecting a moment in time: Reflections on Dung Kai-cheung’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔” by Bonnie S. McDougall](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/dung-kai-cheung.jpg?w=800)
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{Written by James Au Kin-pong, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Steven D. Carter, How to Read a Japanese Poem, Columbia University Press, 2019. 317 Pgs. How to Read a…
![[REVIEW] “A Diversity of Poems: A review of Steven D. Carter’s 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚” by James Au Kin-pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/how-to-read-a-japanese-poem-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 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 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 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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