Category: Hongwei Bao-CHA
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS Editor’s note: In Hongwei Bao’s new essay, Pillion (2025), directed by Harry Lighton and adapted from Adam Mars-Jones’s 2020 novella Box Hill, becomes a lens for exploring queer biker cinema, kink…
![[ESSAY] “Geared Up for Pillion” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/pillion-film-poster.jpg?w=1024)
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[ESSAY] “The Burden of Representation: 𝑃𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 and the BDSM Representation on Screen” by Hongwei Bao
茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Burden of Representation: Pillion and the BDSM Representation on Screen” by Hongwei Bao Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Pillion & Box Hill. Editor’s note: Hongwei Bao revisits the conversations prompted…
![[ESSAY] “The Burden of Representation: 𝑃𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 and the BDSM Representation on Screen” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/pillion-film-review-2025-cha-an-asian-literary-journal-hongwei-bao.png?w=1024)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Impossible (Between) Girls: Lilly Hu’s One Girl Infinite” by Hongwei Bao Lilly Hu (director), One Girl Infinite 不可能女孩, 2025. 102 min. The Chinese title of Lilly Hu’s (also known in…
![[REVIEW] “Impossible (Between) Girls: Lilly Hu’s 𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙 𝐼𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/one-girl-infinite-e4b88de58fafe883bde5a5b3e5ada9-2025.jpeg?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 Pillion & Box Hill. Editor’s note: We are delighted to present Hongwei Bao’s essayistic film review, which blends cultural history, theory, and critique through the…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Jeremy Atherton Lin, Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told, Allen Lane, 2025. Deep House, a memoir by Jeremy Atherton Lin, may or may not be “the gayest…
![[REVIEW] “On Queerness, Migration and Same-Sex Marriage—A Review of Jeremy Atherton Lin’s 𝐷𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑇𝑜𝑙𝑑” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/deep-house-by-jeremy-atherton-lin--1.jpg?w=987)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Adam Mars-Jones’s Box Hill: A Bold Celebration of Queer Love and Desire” by Hongwei Bao Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Pillion & Box Hill. Adam Mars-Jones, Box Hill, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020.…
![[REVIEW] “Adam Mars-Jones’s 𝐵𝑜𝑥 𝐻𝑖𝑙𝑙: A Bold Celebration of Queer Love and Desire” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/box-hill.jpg?w=779)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS This is a review of the play Min forsvundne onkel (My Missing Uncle 我失蹤的舅舅) produced by Nydanskeren Jimbuts Kulturforening and premiered at Teater FÅR302, Copenhagen, on 2-12 April 2025.…
![[REVIEW] “Reimagining Chinese Queer History and Looking for an Alternative World: A Review of 𝑀𝑦 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑈𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑒” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/untitled_1.4.1-jacob-linholdt.png?w=1024)
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RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yilin Wang (editor & translator), The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets, Invisible Publishing, 2024. 120 pgs. The Lantern and The Night…
![[REVIEW] “Poetry Translation in the Chinese Diaspora: Yilin Wang’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑠” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/the-lantern-and-the-night-moths.jpg?w=1024)
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Author’s note: This is a review of the Disco-TECA performance that took place at The Stage, London, as part of Queer East 2024, which may be different from its previous or subsequent versions. A trailer of the show can be…
![[REVIEW] “Disco-TECA: Disco Culture as Queer Culture” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/g47a2566x.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Jiaming Tang, Cinema Love, John Murray, 2024. 304 pgs. Cinema Love is the impressive debut novel by Chinese-American writer Jiaming Tang. The book’s blurb and the opening chapters may…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Gut-punching Melodrama: Jiaming Tang’s 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jiaming-tang-cinema-love-john-murray.jpg?w=975)
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What can literature—and arts and humanities in general—do 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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