Category: Cyril Camus
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Johannes SchΓΆnherr, North Korean Cinema. A History, McFarland, 2012. 224 pgs. My experience with the three books on North Korean cinema I had read up to this pointβPaul…
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Today is Motherβs Day here, so, a few hours out of the Sisyphus paper-grading: up at 10:30 am, which means six hours of sleep, then a while to get ready, eat a little, go drive…
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πRETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Strange Beasts. Yan Ge (author) and Jeremy Tiang (translator), Strange Beasts of China, Tilted Axis Press, 2020. 314 pgs. My previous Cha review of a Chinese…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Maghiel van Crevel and Lucas Klein, eds., Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs, Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 356 pgs. In a previous article about how late 20th/early 21st-century British and American…
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{Written by Cyril Camus, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Zou Tao (author), Timothy Gouldthorp (translator), The Fox Spirit of Bluestone Mountain, Camphor Press, 2020. 228 pgs. HΓΊlΓ yuΓ‘n quΓ‘n zhuΓ n…
![[REVIEW] βJohannes SchΓΆnherr’s ππππ‘β πΎπππππ πΆπππππ:Β Rise (and Fall?) (and Rise again?) of the Propaganda Machineβ by Cyril Camus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/johannes-schonherr-north-korean-cinema.-a-history-1.jpg?w=838)
![[JUST ANOTHER DAY] Cyril Camus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/just-another-day_cha.png?w=1024)
![[REVIEW] βππ‘πππππ π΅πππ π‘π ππ πΆβπππ: Harnessing πβπππ’ππ and Magic Realism to Satirise Otheringβ by Cyril Camus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/strangebeastsofchinav3ccorrected_v3c-copy.jpg?w=668)
![[REVIEW] “πΆβππππ π ππππ‘ππ¦ πππ πππππ πππ‘πππ: A Multi-Angled Overview of What Happens When Worlds Collideβ by Cyril Camus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/chinese-poetry-and-translation-lucas-klein-.png?w=1024)
![[REVIEW] “πβπ πΉππ₯ ππππππ‘ ππ π΅ππ’ππ π‘πππ πππ’ππ‘πππ: Female Force, Bridges from Zhiguai to Novel, and a Royal Rumble of Myth” by Cyril Camus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the-fox-spirit-of-bluestone-mountain-zou-tao-translated-by-timothy-gouldthorp.jpg?w=1024)
![[REVIEW] “The Flock of Ba-Hui: Lovecraftβs New England Nightmares Meet the Mythical Geography of China” by Cyril Camus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/the-flock-of-ba-hui-and-other-stories-1.jpg?w=959)