Category: Hongwei Bao-CHA
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS Editor’s note: In Hongwei Bao’s new essay, Pillion (2025), directed by Harry Lighton and adapted from Adam Mars-Jonesβs 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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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] βThe Burden of Representation: Pillion and the BDSM Representation on Screenβ 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] βThe Burden of Representation: πππππππ and the BDSM Representation on Screenβ 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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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βImpossible (Between) Girls: Lilly Huβs One Girl Infiniteβ by Hongwei Bao Lilly Hu (director), One Girl Infinite δΈε―θ½ε₯³ε©, 2025. 102 min. The Chinese title of Lilly Huβs (also known in…
![[REVIEW] βImpossible (Between) Girls: Lilly Huβs πππ πΊπππ πΌππππππ‘πβ by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/one-girl-infinite-e4b88de58fafe883bde5a5b3e5ada9-2025.jpeg?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ 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 Baoβs essayistic film review, which blends cultural history, theory, and critique through the…
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ 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 βthe gayest…
![[REVIEW] βOn Queerness, Migration and Same-Sex MarriageβA Review of Jeremy Atherton Linβs π·πππ π»ππ’π π: πβπ πΊππ¦ππ π‘ πΏππ£π ππ‘πππ¦ πΈπ£ππ ππππβ 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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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Pillion & Box Hill. Adam Mars-Jones, Box Hill, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020. 128 pgs. At only 120 pages, British novelist Adam Mars-Jonesβs 2020 novella Box…
![[REVIEW] βAdam Mars-Jonesβs π΅ππ₯ π»πππ: A Bold Celebration of Queer Love and Desireβ by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/box-hill.jpg?w=779)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS This is a review of the play Min forsvundne onkelΒ (My Missing Uncle ζε€±θΉ€ηθ θ ) produced by Nydanskeren Jimbuts Kulturforening and premiered at Teater FΓ R302, Copenhagen, on 2-12 April 2025.…
![[REVIEW] βReimagining Chinese Queer History and Looking for an Alternative World: A Review of ππ¦ πππ π πππ πππππβ by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/untitled_1.4.1-jacob-linholdt.png?w=1024)
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ο» RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSο» 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 Wangβs πβπ πΏπππ‘πππ πππ πβπ πππβπ‘ πππ‘βπ ” by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/the-lantern-and-the-night-moths.jpg?w=1024)
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Authorβs 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] βDisco-TECA: Disco Culture as Queer Cultureβ by Hongwei Bao](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/g47a2566x.jpg?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ 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 bookβs blurb and the opening chapters may…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βGut-punching Melodrama: Jiaming Tangβs πΆπππππ πΏππ£πβ 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 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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