Category: Emma Zhang
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Editor’s note: Emma Zhang reflects on her shifting identity as a language teacher in an age when machine translation threatens the role of English as a bridge to the world. Seeking cultural understanding, she visits TalibΓ©, an exhibition by Mauritanian…
![[EXCLUSIVE] βππππππΜ: The Forgotten Faces of Globalisationβ by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/e07c3432-3e50-439d-b428-1c00cf25c682.jpg?w=1024)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Michael Berry, Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary: Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 247 pgs. When Michael Berry took on the project of translating Fang Fangβs…
![[REVIEW] βAn Ode to Translation: Michael Berryβs πππππ πππ‘πππ, π·ππ ππππππππ‘πππ, πππ ππ’βππ π·πππ𦔠by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/translation-disinformation-and-wuhan-diary-anatomy-of-a-transpacific-cyber-campaign-1.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Tang Shu-wing (director), Bhagavad Gita, West Kowloon Cultural District, 2023. One of the most thought-provoking stage performances of the summer of 2023 is Tang Shu-wingβs Bhagavad Gita. Shown in…
![[REVIEW]βDetachment in the Cycle of Kali Yuga: A Review of Tang Shu-wingβs π΅βππππ£ππ πΊππ‘πβ by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/bhagavad-gita-1.jpg?w=1024)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere. Jennifer Wong, Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry, Bloomsbury, 2023. When Jennifer…
![[REVIEW] βPoetry of the Nomads: Jennifer Wongβs πΌππππ‘ππ‘π¦, π»πππ πππ ππππ‘πππ πΈππ ππ€βπππ ππ πΆπππ‘ππππππππ¦ πΆβππππ π π·πππ ππππ ππππ‘ππ¦β by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/jennifer-wong-cha-identity-home-and-writing-elsewhere.png?w=1024)
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π Return to First Impressionsπ Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Gish Jen, Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories, Alfred A Knopf, 2022. 272 pgs. βA beautiful country full of beautiful coats, what could that be but evil?β ponders…
![[REVIEW] βLaughter of the Displaced: A Review of Gish Jenβs πβπππ πππ’, ππ. πππ₯ππβ by Emma H. Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/thank-you-mr-nixon-gish-jen.png?w=1024)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Indelible City. Louisa Lim, Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, Text Publishing Melbourne Australia, 2022. 306 pgs. Louisa Limβs 2022 book Indelible City:…
![[REVIEW] “Beyond Birth, Blood, and Soil: Reading Louisa Limβs πΌππππππππ πΆππ‘𦔠by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/indelible-city-louisa-lim-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} C.T. Au, The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan, Lexington Books, 2020. 202 pgs. C.T. Auβs The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung…
![[REVIEW] “Dissected by Theory: A Review of C.T. Au’s The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/the-hong-kong-modernism-of-leung-ping-kwan_review.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jung Chang, Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China, Penguin Random House, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “The World for One Family: A Review of Jung Changβs π΅ππ πππ π‘ππ, πΏππ‘π‘ππ πππ π‘ππ, π
ππ πππ π‘ππ” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/big-sister-little-sister-red-sister-three-women-at-the-heart-of-twentieth-century-china-1.jpg?w=1024)
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[Editors’ note: Go to “Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On”, which took place on 3 June 2019.] [Selected Works] [Andy’s biography] [Nelly Sachs’s “Corus of Orphans”] [Susan’s biography] [Yueran Zhang’sΒ “The Forgotten Socialists of Tiananmen Square” | Guo Ting’s…
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Julia Lovell, Maoism: A Global History, Bodley Head, 2019. 606 pgs. Professor Julia Lovellβs account of the spread of Maoism…
![[Review] “A Spectre Is Haunting Asia and Beyond: A Review of Julia Lovell’s Maoism” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/julia-lovell-maoism-a-global-history.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kai-Fu Lee, AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. 272 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Techno Dystopia: Ka-Fu Lee’s AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ai-super-powers.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Zak Dychtwald, Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World, St. Martin’s Press,…
![[REVIEW] “Brave New China: Zak Dychtwald’s πππ’ππ πΆβπππ: π»ππ€ π‘βπ π
ππ π‘πππ π πΊππππππ‘πππ ππππ πΆβππππ πβπππ πΆππ’ππ‘ππ¦ πππ π‘βπ πππππ” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/young-china-how-the-restless-generation-will-change-their-country-and-the-world.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ha Jin, The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai, Patheon, 2019. 320 pgs. From the pen of…
![[REVIEW] “Man of Letters: Ha Jin’s πβπ π΅ππππ βππ πΌπππππ‘ππ: π΄ πΏπππ ππ πΏπ π΅ππ” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/the-banished-immortal.jpg?w=1024)
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