Category: Hong Kong University Press
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Xiaofei Tian (editor), Reading Du Fu: Nine Views, Hong Kong University Press, 2020. 200 pgs. The idea for Reading Du Fu: Nine Views grew out of a two-day conference…
![[REVIEW] “Interrogative Reflections: Nine Views of Reading Du Fu” by Marsha McDonald](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/xiaofei-tian-editor-reading-du-fu-nine-views-1.jpg?w=1024)
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📁RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Lauren Walden, Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai, Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 152 pgs. In Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai, Lauren Walden has done modern Chinese art history a…
![[REVIEW] “Recovering Shanghai’s Lost Surrealist Tradition: Lauren Walden’s 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔ℎ𝑎𝑖” by Paul French](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/surrealism-from-paris-to-shanghai.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Thomas Barker, Indonesian Cinema After the New Order: Going Mainstream, Hong Kong University Press, 2019, 244 pgs. After reviewing several books on East Asian films and pop culture, it…
![[REVIEW] “Master in Its Own House: On Thomas Barker’s 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑂𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟” by Mario Rustan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/thomas-barker-indonesian-cinema-after-the-new-order-going-mainstream-1.jpg?w=1001)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Basil Pao (photographer), Carnival of Dreams, with an introduction by Pico Iyer, Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 208 pgs. Huge cubes float in the air, painted with different images on…
![[REVIEW] “Digital X-Acto: Basil Pao’s photography book 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠” by Junnan Chen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/carnival-of-dreams_basil-pao-1.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Nightmare Japan. ❀ Jinhee Choi and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (editors), Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema, Hong Kong University Press, 2009. 284 pgs.❀ Jay…
![[REVIEW] “The Golden Age of Asian Horror Film: An Examination of 𝐻𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 and 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/horror.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Gary Bettinson, The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance, 2014. 176 pgs. In the summer of 1994, I left a cinema in Tsim…
![[REVIEW] “Getting to the Heart of Wong Kar-wai: Gary Bettinson’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑎𝑟-𝑤𝑎𝑖” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/29477id_021_0005_29477id_215.webp?w=800)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Annika A. Culver and Norman Smith (editors), Manchukuo Perspectives: Transnational Approach to Literary Production, Hong Kong University Press, 2020. Miserable human mouths are born on each ink drop. The paper gets crowded…
![[REVIEW] “The Buried Past Revealed: Reading 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑘𝑢𝑜 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠” by Yu Müller](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/manchukuo-perspectives-transnational-approach-to-literary-production-hong-kong-university-press.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Peng Hsiao-yen (editor), The Assassin: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s World of Tang China, Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 252 ppgs. Published in 2019 by the Hong Kong University Press, The Assassin: Hou…
![[REVIEW] “A Historically Cosmopolitan, Mixed Culture: 𝐻𝑜𝑢 𝐻𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑜-𝐻𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑛‘𝑠 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑇𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/the-assassin.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Written by Frances An, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Rosemary Roberts and Li Li (editors), The Making and Remaking of China’s Red Classics: Politics, Aesthetics, and Mass Culture, Hong Kong University…
![[REVIEW] “Amid Corrupt Cultural Landscapes: A Review of The Making and Remaking of China’s Red Classics” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/the-making-and-remaking-of-chinas-red-classics-politics-aesthetics-and-mass-culture.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Malcolm Merry, The Unruly New Territories: Small Houses, Ancestral Estates, Illegal Structures, and Other Customary Land Practices of Rural Hong Kong, Hong Kong…
![[REVIEW] “Truculent Attitude and Independent Spirit: A Review of Malcolm Merry’s The Unruly New Territories” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/the-unruly-new-territories-small-houses-ancestral-estates-illegal-structures-and-other-customary-land-practices-of-rural-hong-kong-1.jpeg?w=666)
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{Written by Joshua Bird, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Barak Kushner and Andrew Levidis (editors), In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire Imperial Violence: State Destruction, and the Reordering of Modern…
![[REVIEW] “Ongoing Legacy: Reviewing 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑉𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒” by Joshua Bird](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/in-the-ruins-of-the-japanese-empire-.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Francisca Yuenki Lai, Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires, Hong Kong University Press, 2020. 148 pgs. It’s a Sunday afternoon in Kowloon Park or Victoria Park, Hong Kong, and Francisca…
![[REVIEW] “A Study of Where Sexuality is Produced: Reviewing Maid to Queer” by Noah Arthur Weber](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/francisca-yuenki-lai-maid-to-queer-asian-labor-migration-and-female-same-sex-desires.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Written by Frances An, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sebastian Veg (editor), Popular Memories of the Mao Era: From Critical Debate to Reassessing History 毛時代的民間記憶：從批判性辯論到歷史的再評價, Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 256 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Underground resilience in Popular Memories of the Mao Era” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/popular-memories-of-the-mao-era-from-critical-debate-to-reassessing-history.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Travis S. K. Kong, Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten 男男正傳︰香港年長男同志口述史, Hong Kong University Press, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “See How Much I Love You: Reviewing Travis S. K. Kong’s 𝑂𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑂𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐺𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/oral-histories-of-older-gay-men-in-hong-kong_travis-s-k-kong.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Joshua Bird, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} John Fitzgerald and Hon-ming Yip (editors), Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific 1850-1949 華僑慈善與環太平洋區的廣東人世界 1850–1949, Hong Kong University Press, 2020.…
![[REVIEW] “Building Bridges Across Both Countries and Cultures: A Review of Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific 1850-1949” by Joshua Bird](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/chinese-diaspora-charity-and-the-cantonese.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Frances An, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ping Zhu, Zhuoyi Wang, and Jason McGrath (editors), Maoist Laughter (毛時代的笑), Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 232 pgs. Accounts of communist terror—for example,…
![[REVIEW] “Psychological infiltration in Maoist Laughter” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/maoist-laughter_hong-kong-university-press.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Matt Turner, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} David Clark, China-Art-Modernity: A Critical Introduction to Chinese Visual Expression from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century to the Present…
![[REVIEW] “Experiments in Form: A Review of David Clark’s 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎—𝐴𝑟𝑡—𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦” by Matt Turner](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/david-clarke_china-art-modernity.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Cameron L. White, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jing Jing Chang, Screening Communities: Negotiating Narratives of Empire, Nation, and the Cold War in Hong Kong Cinema, Hong…
![[REVIEW] “Peripheries of Becoming: Reading Jing Jing Chang’s Screening Communities” by Cameron L. White](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/screening-communities-negotiating-narratives-of-empire-nation-and-the-cold-war-in-hong-kong-cinema-1.jpg?w=1024)
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