Category: Eleventh Anniversary Issue
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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Christina Yi, Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea, Columbia University Press,…
![[REVIEW] “Uncontrollable Forces: Christina Yi’s πΆππππππ§πππ πΏππππ’πππ: πΆπ’ππ‘π’πππ πππππ’ππ‘πππ πππ πΏππππ’πππ πππππ‘πππ ππ ππππππ π½ππππ πππ πΎππππ” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/colonizing-language-1.png?w=384)
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{This pieceΒ is part of the special section on Meng Lang in Issue 44 (June 2019) ofΒ Cha.}Β My friend Meng Lang passed away in Hong Kong on 12 December 2018 .The fact that I heard the news on my birthday (16…
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{Written by Chloe Leung, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Cheryl Pallant, Ginseng Tango, Big Table Publishing Company, 2017. 211 pgs. Ginseng: a slow-growing and energy-boosting plant found…
![[Review] “A Tangoed Soul with Tangled Roots: Cheryl Pallant’s Ginseng Tango” by Chloe Leung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ginseng-Tango.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} β Cindy Rinne, Quiet Lantern: A Novel in Verse, Turning Point Books, 2016. 116 pgs. β Khairani Barokka, Rope, Nine…
![[REVIEW] “Soldiers of the Heart: Poetry by Cindy Rinne, Khairani Barokka and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta” by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Alana-Leilani-Teves-Cabrera-Narciso-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sarge Lacuesta, A Waiting Room Companion, BUGHAW, 2017. 188 pgs. As I looked at the cover of A…
![[REVIEW] “Poor, Rich Kid: Sarge Lacuesta’s A Waiting Room Companion” by AlanaΒ Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/A-Waiting-Room-Companion_Sarge-Lacuesta.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Grace Chia, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Liu Yiqing (compiler), ZhenJun Zhang (editor and translator), Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the…
![[Review] “Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic” by Grace Chia](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hidden-and-Visible-Realms-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wendy Chen, Unearthings, Tavern Books, 2018. 104 pgs. In her debut poetry collection Unearthings, Wendy Chen muses on…
![[Review] “Reading History Slowly: Wendy Chen’s Unearthings” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Unearthings-1.jpg?w=386)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} TarΕ Naka (author), Andrew Houwen and Chikako Nihei (translators), Music: Selected Poems, Isobar Press, 2018. 138 pgs. TarΕ…
![[REVIEW] “Take on the Challenge: TarΕ Naka’s ππ’π ππ: ππππππ‘ππ πππππ ” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Music_Selected-Poems.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Artemis Lin, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Bi Gan (director), Kaili Blues (Lu bian ye can), 2015. 113 min. What is a place? Is it…
![[Review] “Forging Dreams Through Time: Bi Gan’s Kaili Blues” by Artemis Lin](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Kaili-Blues.png?w=1024)
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[Review] “Unravelling Taiwan: Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman’s Formosa Moon” by Joyce Lau
{Written by Joyce Lau, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman, Formosa Moon, ThingsAsian Press, 2018. 336 pgs. Smangus, the most remote village…
![[Review] “Unravelling Taiwan: Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman’s Formosa Moon” by Joyce Lau](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Formosa-Moon_Asian-Cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Zeny May Dy Recidoro, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane (editors), Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval…
![[REVIEW] “The Liberated Mind: ππππ π‘πππ , π΄ππππππ , πππ ππ‘βππ ππππππ : A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales” by Zeny May Dy Recidoro](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Monsters-Animals-and-Other-Worlds-A-Collection-of-Short-Medieval-Japanese-Tales-1.jpg?w=350)
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{Written by Swathi Parasuraman, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, 2017. 240 pgs. I remember reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist two years ago.…
![[REVIEW] “A Refugee Love Story: Moshin Hamid’s πΈπ₯ππ‘ πππ π‘” by Swathi Parasuraman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/exit-west_asian-cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Daryl Lim Wei Jie, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Yang Mu (author), Michelle Yeh (editor), Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems, Columbia University Press, 2018.…
![[REVIEW] “Yang Mu’s Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems” by Daryl Lim Wei Jie](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/hawk-of-the-mind1.jpg?w=900)
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{Written by Angela Qian, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Natsume SΕseki. John Nathan, SΕseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist, Columbia University Press, 2018. 344…
![[REVIEW] SΕseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/sc58dseki.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by James Au Kin-Pong, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jun’ichirΕ Tanizaki (author), Phyllis I. Lyons (translator), In Black and White, Columbia University Press, 2018. 256 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Between Fiction and Reality: Jun’ichirΕ Tanizaki’s In Black and White” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/in-black-and-white1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this rejoinder is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read Susan Blumberg-Kason’s review of Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions here and Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz’s response…
![[Review] “Letter to the Editors” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/little-reunionse28094cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz, this rejoinder is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read Susan Blumberg-Kason’s review of Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions here and her response to…
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} β Rochelle Potkar, Paper Asylum, Copper Coin, 2018. 103 pgs. β Rochelle Potkar, Four Degrees of Separation, Paperwall Media, 2016.…
![[REVIEW] In the Country Where I Live: Two Collections by Rochelle Potkar](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/befunky-collage-24.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Paoi Wilmer, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Chi Pang-yuan (author), John Balcom (translator), The Great Flowing River: A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan,…
![[REVIEW] “Chi Pang-yuan’s πβπ πΊππππ‘ πΉπππ€πππ π
ππ£ππ: π΄ ππππππ ππ πΆβπππ, ππππ ππππβπ’πππ π‘π ππππ€ππ” by Paoi Wilmer](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-great-flowing-river1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Nina Powles, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nashua Gallagher, All the Words a Stage, Chameleon Press, 2018. 102 pgs. “They place me in new soil…
![[Review] There’s No Place Like Home: Nashua Gallagher’s All the Words a Stage](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/nashua-gallagher_all-the-words-a-stage.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by John W. Steele, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jenna Le, A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora, Indolent Books, 2018. 94 pgs. In this stunning…
![[Review] An Anatomy of Trauma: Jenna Le’s A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/jenna-le-a-history-of-the-cetacean-american-diaspora.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Maialen Marin-Lacarta, this review is part of Issue 42 (December 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Aili Mu (translator and editor) with Mike Smith (contributor), Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories: A Parallel Text, Columbia University…
![[REVIEW] “Spreading the Genre: A review of πΆπππ‘ππππππππ¦ πΆβππππ π πβπππ‘-πβπππ‘ ππ‘πππππ ” by Maialen Marin-Lacarta](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cha_review_contemporary-chinese-short-short-stories.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read a response from the translators of Little Reunions, Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz here and…
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{Written by Ronald Torrance, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Su Tong (author), Jane Weizhen Pan (translator) and Martin Merz (translator), Petulia’s Rouge Tin, Penguin, 2018. 106 pgs.…
![[Review] “Preserving the Unspoken Past: Su Tong’s Petulia’s Rouge Tin” by Ronald Torrance](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/9780734399496.jpg?w=400)
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kawika Guillermo, Stamped: An Anti-travel Novel, Westphalia, 2018. 360 pgs. He understood that need to escape, but…
![[REVIEW] “‘So punk in drublic’; or, ‘Stepping in her footprints to erase your being here’βKawika Guillermo’sΒ Stamped: An Anti-travel Novel” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/stamped1.jpg?w=313)
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