Category: Ilaria Maria Sala
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Mao Suit. Antonia Finnane, How to Make a Mao Suit: Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949β1976, Cambridge University Press, 2023. 386 pgs. Here is…
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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 Owlish. Dorothy Tse (author), Natascha Bruce (translator), Owlish, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023. 224 pgs. Dorothy Tseβs Owlish, translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce, is a novel…
![[REVIEW] “All the Subtle References: Dorothy Tse’s ππ€πππ β” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/dorothy-tse-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.jpg?w=1024)
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Ilaria Maria Sala, Cha contributor: As I write these lines, Andrei Kurkov is in Kyiv. Sometimes I get a message from him, sometimes he posts on Facebook: “Glory to Ukraine!” he wrote last. He is one of the greatest contemporary…
![[FEATURE] “Human Rights and Literature: USSR, Post-soviet Ukraine, and Russia”, a Lecture by Andrei Kurkov](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/andrei-kurkov-1.png?w=1024)
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We are very pleased to announce that we have nominated the following three poems for the 2021 Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry. Results will be announced in January 2022. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! “Flowers” by Ysabelle Cheung…
![[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cha’s 2021 Hawker Prize Nominations](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/hawker-prize-1.png?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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[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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On Tuesday 30 April 2019, I went to Wah Yan College, in Mongkok, to hold Cha reading workshop for a group of Junior Secondary students. Wah Yan is a Catholic boys school, which has two branches, one on the Hong…
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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Quelling the Demons’ Revolt: A Novel from Ming China, Luo Guanzhong (attributed author) Patrick Hanan (translator), Columbia…
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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Christina Yi, Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea, Columbia University Press,…
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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wu He (author), Michael Berry (translator), Remains of Life, Columbia University Press, 2017. 352 pgs. Remains of…
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