Category: Exclusive
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] βWhat Does It Mean to Be a Feminist in China? Reviewing Feminisms with Chinese Characteristicsβ by X. H. Collins Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao (editors), Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics, Syracuse…
![[ESSAY] βWhat Does It Mean to Be a Feminist in China? Reviewing πΉππππππ ππ Β π€ππ‘β πΆβππππ π πΆβπππππ‘ππππ π‘πππ β by X. H. Collins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/feminists_chinese-characteristics.png?w=1024)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] Being Born, Getting Old, Falling Sick, and Dyingby Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong KongβWednesday 26 August 2020 }}} Twenty-four Covid new cases confirmed today in Hong Kong. The aircon…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Being Born, Getting Old, Falling Sick, and Dying” (Wednesday 26 August 2020) by Chris Song, Translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/hong-kong-2020-1.jpeg?w=720)
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A Son of Hanoi . Kenneth on “A Son of Hanoi”: It is worth considering the idea of the 1.5 generation and how a few years of schooling in an imperialist country can be so strongly internalised. What does it…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “A Son of Hanoi” and “TαΊ₯m and the Peasant Farmer” by Kenneth Tanemura](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/hanoi.png?w=1024)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] Workers’ Expression of Romanceby Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong KongβMonday 24 August 2020 }}} Today there were nine confirmed Covid cases in Hong Kong. Itβs the first time in…
![[EXCLUSIVE] βWorkers’ Expression of Romanceβ (Monday 24 August 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/star-street_wing-fung-street.png?w=1024)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] Every Lovely Little Thingby Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong KongβTuesday 25 August 2020 }}} Nineteen confirmed Covid cases today in Hong Kong. The lunchtime news reported that pandemic measures…
![[EXCLUSIVE] βEvery Lovely Little Thingβ (Tuesday 25 August 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/k-town_oliver-farry-1.png?w=958)
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[Chris Song’s Mobile Diary] That Moment Balances Fiction and Realityby Chris Song, translated from the Chinese by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho {{{ Hong KongβFriday 28 August 2020 }}} Twenty-one confirmed Covid cases in Hong Kong today. Last night the rain was unforgiving.…
![[EXCLUSIVE] βThat Moment Balances Fiction and Realityβ (Friday 28 August 2020) by Chris Song, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/hong-kong_28-august-2020_chris-song-1.jpg?w=960)
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Photographs of jellyfish are by the author.Β Β Of course we donβt keep recordsβwhy would we?βbut my understanding is that we have been around for at least 500 million years, and maybe 700 million. I donβt believe there are any other…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “A Jellyfish Explains Life” by David Clarke](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/jellyfish-in-an-aquarium-boston16-may-2017originalsize-1.jpg?w=1024)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Giving a Voice to Those With None: Karen Ma’s China’s Millennial Digital Generation” by X. H. Collins Karen Ma. Chinaβs Millennial Digital Generation: Conversations with Balinghou (Post-1980s) Indie Filmmakers, Long…
![[ESSAY] “Giving a Voice to Those With None: Karen Ma’s πΆβπππ’π ππππππππππ π·ππππ‘ππ πΊππππππ‘πππ” by X. H. Collins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/chinas-millennial-digital-generation-conversations-with-balinghou-post-1980s-indie-filmmakers-1.png?w=1024)
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Reflections on “Q & A” E. Ethelbert Miller: The title is actually what occurs in the poem. Often Miho and I will exchange lines and stanzas as we construct our poems. In this poem I felt it was more like…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Q & A” by Miho Kinnas and E. Ethelbert Miller](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/frederick-j.-brown.png?w=1024)
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Editor’s note: Elmer Omar Bascos Pizo is from the Philippines. In 1981, he received a degree in Agricultural Engineering from Benguet State University. He taught poultry production in high school before he went to Saudi Arabia as an agriculturist. Shocked…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Returned Home for Christmas after Years of Absence: A Personal Reflection and a Tale” by Elmer Omar Bascos Pizo](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/elmer-omar-bascos-pizo_cha.png?w=1024)
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Kamayani Sharma on “Catching Fish”: I wrote the first draft of the poem on 14 April 2012. I remember the exact date because I emailed the poem to a friend as soon as I finished it. In those days, having…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Catching Fish” by Kamayani Sharma](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cha_accompanyingphoto.jpg?w=1024)
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Photograph by Madeleine Slavick Β There are 22 of us on the plane from Auckland to Hong Kong and about 350 empty seats. I sleep across five. We depart at night and arrive at night. I talk with one person…
![[EXCLUSIVE] βThe Yellow Chairβ by Madeleine Slavick](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/the-yellow-chair-by-madeleine-slavick.jpg?w=1024)
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[Return to Table of Contents.] LOVE: A Readingjointly organised byCha and Bleak House BooksDate: Friday 17 September 2021Time: 7:30 pmVenue: Bleak House BooksModerator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho First performed at LOVE: A Reading, these are original poems by Ilaria Maria Sala. We are grateful…
![[EXCLUSIVE] LOVE: Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/love-reading_17-sept-2021.png?w=1024)
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Andrew Houwen’s note: The Japanese poet Kazue Shinkawa has described Noriko Ibaragi (1926-2006) as the βbig sisterβ of post-war Japanese poetry. Ibaragi had her poetry first published at the age of 19, at a time when published women poets were…
![[EXCLUSIVE] Four New Translations of Noriko Ibaragi by Andrew Houwen and Peter Robinson](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ibaragi-noriko.jpeg?w=1024)
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Translation EditorΒ Lucas Klein‘s note:Β Brian Holtonβs translations of Li Bai are new in at least three senses: he completed them recently; they will be new to readers familiar only with the Tang poetβs βgreatest hitsβ or anthology pieces; and they…
![[EXCLUSIVE] Parting, Travel, and the Great Roc: Poems of Li Bai, Newly Translated by Brian Holton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/parting-travel-and-the-great-roc-poems-of-li-bai-newly-translated-by-brian-holton.png?w=1024)
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In βThe Force of Forging Wordsβ, a poem in Words as Grain: New & Selected Poems by premier Chinese poet Duo Duo ε€ε€ (Yale University Press, The Cecile and Theodore Margellos World Republic of Letters series), translated by Lucas Klein,…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Entering a State of No-Self: Some Thoughts on Poetry and Translation” by Chris Song](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/duo-duo-words-as-grain-cha-chris-song.png?w=1024)
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Co-Editor Tammy Lai-Ming Ho‘s note: Bo Schwabacher’s poem “Flat Nose” was published in the June 2016 issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. We are delighted to learn about the publication of Bo’s debut poetry collection Omma, Sea of Joy…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Familial Love inΒ ππππ, πππ ππ π½ππ¦ πππ ππ‘βππ π΄π π‘πππππππππ πππππ ” by Bo Schwabacher](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/f09d9182f09d919af09d919af09d918e-f09d9186f09d9192f09d918e-f09d919cf09d9193-f09d90bdf09d919cf09d91a6-f09d918ef09d919bf09d9191-f09d9182f09d91a1e2848ef09d9192f09d919f-f09d90b4f09d91a0f09d91.png?w=1024)
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J.C.’s “Woman, Arise!”, a poem about the empowered transformation of a woman rising from her past, is the First Place winner of the World Poetry Day Poetry Competition 2021, initiated by Grassroots Future and co-organised with Cha, Peel Street Poetry,…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Woman, Arise!” by J.C. (First Place WinnerβWorld Poetry Day Competition 2021)](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/world-poetry-day-poetry-competition-2021-winner-announcement.jpeg?w=1024)
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C.L.’s “Palm Sunday”, a poem which recalls the peace and safety they feel under Godβs shelter, is the Second Place winner of the World Poetry Day Poetry Competition 2021, initiated by Grassroots Future and co-organised with Cha, Peel Street Poetry,…
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John Outsider’s “Sinners”, which challenges the binaries of good and evil, is the Third Place winner of the World Poetry Day Poetry Competition 2021, initiated by Grassroots Future and co-organised with Cha, Peel Street Poetry, and Spill Stories. Find out…
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ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Lockdown Lovers. TH: We are pleased to present an exclusive essay by Michael O’Sullivan on his new book, Lockdown Lovers (Penguin Random House, 2021), a five-part love story set in lockdown conditions in Asia and Europe.…
![[EXCLUSIVE] βLiteral and Metaphorical Lockdown: On Writing πΏππππππ€π πΏππ£πππ β by Michael O’Sullivan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/lockdown-lovers_michael-osullivan.png?w=1024)
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Download Joshua Ip’sSeven PoemsHERE. . The genesis of these translations was an intellectual property snafu. In 2020, I threw myself into a project to translate 30 poemsβby a pioneer Singapore poet who wrote exclusively in classical Chinese formsβinto formal English…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Kidnapping a Beloved Ancestor from Their Home Timeline: On Translating Chinese Poets from the Tang and Song Dynasties” by Joshua Ip](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/seven-poems-by-joshua-ip-for-asian-cha.png?w=1024)
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Jon Ng, Hong Kong: Growing Pains, Proverse Press, 2020. 74 pgs. MY CURATION OF PRIVATE THOUGHTS I was trying to grow up when I started to put this collection together. Itβs funny to think of now but, as I hit…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “On Writing π»πππ πΎπππ: πΊπππ€πππ πππππ ” by Jon Ng](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/jon-ng_hong-kong-growing-pains_proverse.png?w=1024)
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INTRODUCTION Currently based in Glasgow, Scotland, Sean Wai Keung has lived in places including London, Yorkshire and Norwich. His maternal grandparents migrated from Hong Kong in the 1950s and he remains close to his extended family in Sai Kung. His…
![[EXCLUSIVE] Jennifer Wong Interviews Sean Wai Keung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/sean-wai-keung_you-are-mistaken_be-happy.png?w=1024)
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What can literatureβand arts and humanities in generalβdo in a global pandemic? Not much, some would say; a lot, others may insist. I do not have an answer to such a complex question. But, ever since the start of the…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “The Use of Literature in a Global Pandemic” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/masked-woman.jpg?w=1024)
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Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Fang Fang. From 23 January to 8 April this year, the Chinese city of Wuhan was under lockdown for 77 days to contain the spread of COVID-19. For most of the…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Three Women and Their Wuhan Diaries: Women’s Writing in a Quarantined Chinese City” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/wuhan-diaries.jpg?w=1024)
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29 August 2020 Chatting with a friend from Guangzhou who lives in Singapore, I said βε₯½ζ·εΏ΅δ½ ε θ₯Ώιθ εβ (Your Sai Kwan intonation is nostalgic and I really miss it). My good friend has been very persistent in keeping her Guangzhou Sai Kwan…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Stories about Cantonese: My Mother Tongue” by Dongli Liang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/iredheartcantonese_4.jpg?w=1024)
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The Untranslatability of my Udon Breakfast by Belle Ling 7 a.m. space-probes in a pool. Morning is a container within another container. Every day keeps its stomach low, its mouth takes in whatever it is given. βDo you need half…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “The Untranslatability of my Udon Breakfast” by Belle Ling](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/udon.jpg?w=486)
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When Lovers Die by Paul Rozario-Falcone I actually had had a date that evening. A handsome waiter from a few meals the week before had looked me up on Facebook and sent a friend request. He knew I had recently…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “When Lovers Die” by Paul Rozario-Falcone](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/silent-metal-creatures.jpeg?w=1024)
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“The Writing Life Beyond COVID-19: A Virtual Residency” was co-organised by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and the newly founded Mongrel Writers Residenceβ’, featuring SEVEN Hong Kong-based writers and Cha contributors and SIX transnational writers, who are graduates and students…
![[EXCLUSIVE] The Writing Life Beyond COVID-19: A Virtual Residence (3-9 August 2020)βVideos](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the-writing-life-beyond-covid-19_a-virtual-residence.jpg?w=1024)
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