Category: Duke University Press
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[ESSAY] “Maggie Cheung and the Refusal of Cinematic Immortality” by Anna Nguyen I have many confessions. I am exhausted by the discourse surrounding Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000). I am exhausted by fandoms that fixate on aesthetic…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kawika Guillermo, Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir, Duke University Press, 2023. 240 pgs. Fuck ’em all. Squares on bothsides. I am the only completeman in the industry.—Burroughs, Naked Lunch…
![[REVIEW] “ ‘________________________’: Rererecapitulating Kawika Guillermo’s Devastatingly Wondrous 𝑁𝑖𝑚𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑠: 𝐴 𝐹𝑎𝑘𝑒-𝑃𝑢𝑛𝑘 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑓-𝐻𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝐴𝑛𝑡𝑖-𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑟” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/kawika-guillermo-devastating-nimrods-a-fake-punk-self-hurt-anti-memoir-.jpg?w=1024)
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📁RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yan Lianke (author), Carlos Rojas (translator), Sound and Silence: My Experience with China and Literature, Duke University Press, 2024. 192 pgs. In late April 2024, Literary Hub released an…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Yan Lianke: The Reader Comes First” by A. B. Freeman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/feb5978a-5dfd-11ea-be3e-43af5536d789_image_hires_104029.jpeg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS David L. Eng and Shinhee Han, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans, Duke University Press, 2018. 232 pgs. Asian Americans are…
![[REVIEW] “A Groundbreaking Conversation: David L. Eng and Shinhee Han’s 𝑅𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑎, 𝑅𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” by Elaine Chiew](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/racial-melancholia-racial-dissociation-on-the-social-and-psychic-lives-of-asian-americans.jpg?w=1000)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Hangping Xu and Yunte Huang (special issue editors), Translatability and Transmediality: Chinese Poetry in/and the World, V20: N1 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Duke University Press, March 2023. 252…
![[REVIEW] “Worlds of Translation, Translated Worlds: 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑚 Special Issue 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦” by Astrid Møller-Olsen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/prisme28094march-2023.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Carlos Rojas (special issue editor), Method as Method, V16: N2 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Duke University Press, 2019. According to a quick etymological internet search, the term “method” originates in the…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Carlos Rojas (special issue editor), Method as Method, V16: N2 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Duke University Press, 2019. Method here is used as a “prism” to tease out our underlying assumptions…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Carlos Rojas (special issue editor), Method as Method, V16: N2 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Duke University Press, 2019. Twenty years ago, as a graduate student newly arrived in the…
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