Category: Issue 42—Eleventh Anniversary Issue
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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {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,…
![[REVIEW] “Uncontrollable Forces: Christina Yi’s 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒: 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐾𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑎” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/colonizing-language-1.png)
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{This piece is part of the special section on Meng Lang in Issue 44 (June 2019) of Cha.} My friend Meng Lang passed away in Hong Kong on 12 December 2018 .The fact that I heard the news on my birthday (16…
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{Written by Chloe Leung, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Cheryl Pallant, Ginseng Tango, Big Table Publishing Company, 2017. 211 pgs. Ginseng: a slow-growing and energy-boosting plant found…
![[Review] “A Tangoed Soul with Tangled Roots: Cheryl Pallant’s Ginseng Tango” by Chloe Leung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ginseng-Tango.jpg)
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{Written by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Cindy Rinne, Quiet Lantern: A Novel in Verse, Turning Point Books, 2016. 116 pgs. ❀ Khairani Barokka, Rope, Nine…
![[REVIEW] “Soldiers of the Heart: Poetry by Cindy Rinne, Khairani Barokka and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta” by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Alana-Leilani-Teves-Cabrera-Narciso-1.jpg)
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{Written by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sarge Lacuesta, A Waiting Room Companion, BUGHAW, 2017. 188 pgs. As I looked at the cover of A…
![[REVIEW] “Poor, Rich Kid: Sarge Lacuesta’s A Waiting Room Companion” by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/A-Waiting-Room-Companion_Sarge-Lacuesta.jpg)
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{Written by Grace Chia, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Liu Yiqing (compiler), ZhenJun Zhang (editor and translator), Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the…
![[Review] “Hidden and Visible Realms: Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic” by Grace Chia](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hidden-and-Visible-Realms-1.jpg)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wendy Chen, Unearthings, Tavern Books, 2018. 104 pgs. In her debut poetry collection Unearthings, Wendy Chen muses on…
![[Review] “Reading History Slowly: Wendy Chen’s Unearthings” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Unearthings-1.jpg)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tarō Naka (author), Andrew Houwen and Chikako Nihei (translators), Music: Selected Poems, Isobar Press, 2018. 138 pgs. Tarō…
![[REVIEW] “Take on the Challenge: Tarō Naka’s 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐: 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑠” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Music_Selected-Poems.jpg)
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{Written by Artemis Lin, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Bi Gan (director), Kaili Blues (Lu bian ye can), 2015. 113 min. What is a place? Is it…
![[Review] “Forging Dreams Through Time: Bi Gan’s Kaili Blues” by Artemis Lin](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Kaili-Blues.png)
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[Review] “Unravelling Taiwan: Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman’s Formosa Moon” by Joyce Lau
{Written by Joyce Lau, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman, Formosa Moon, ThingsAsian Press, 2018. 336 pgs. Smangus, the most remote village…
![[Review] “Unravelling Taiwan: Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman’s Formosa Moon” by Joyce Lau](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Formosa-Moon_Asian-Cha.jpg)
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{Written by Zeny May Dy Recidoro, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane (editors), Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval…
![[REVIEW] “The Liberated Mind: 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝐴𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑠: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales” by Zeny May Dy Recidoro](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Monsters-Animals-and-Other-Worlds-A-Collection-of-Short-Medieval-Japanese-Tales-1.jpg)
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{Written by Swathi Parasuraman, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, 2017. 240 pgs. I remember reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist two years ago.…
![[REVIEW] “A Refugee Love Story: Moshin Hamid’s 𝐸𝑥𝑖𝑡 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡” by Swathi Parasuraman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/exit-west_asian-cha.jpg)
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{Written by Daryl Lim Wei Jie, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Yang Mu (author), Michelle Yeh (editor), Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems, Columbia University Press, 2018.…
![[REVIEW] “Yang Mu’s Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems” by Daryl Lim Wei Jie](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/hawk-of-the-mind1.jpg)
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{Written by Angela Qian, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Natsume Sōseki. John Nathan, Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist, Columbia University Press, 2018. 344…
![[REVIEW] Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/sc58dseki.jpg)
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{Written by James Au Kin-Pong, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (author), Phyllis I. Lyons (translator), In Black and White, Columbia University Press, 2018. 256 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Between Fiction and Reality: Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s In Black and White” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/in-black-and-white1.jpg)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this rejoinder is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read Susan Blumberg-Kason’s review of Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions here and Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz’s response…
![[Review] “Letter to the Editors” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/little-reunionse28094cha.jpg)
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{Written by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz, this rejoinder is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read Susan Blumberg-Kason’s review of Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions here and her response to…
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Rochelle Potkar, Paper Asylum, Copper Coin, 2018. 103 pgs. ❀ Rochelle Potkar, Four Degrees of Separation, Paperwall Media, 2016.…
![[REVIEW] In the Country Where I Live: Two Collections by Rochelle Potkar](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/befunky-collage-24.jpg)
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{Written by Paoi Wilmer, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Chi Pang-yuan (author), John Balcom (translator), The Great Flowing River: A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan,…
![[REVIEW] “Chi Pang-yuan’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟: 𝐴 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎, 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑎 𝑡𝑜 𝑇𝑎𝑖𝑤𝑎𝑛” by Paoi Wilmer](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-great-flowing-river1.jpg)
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{Written by Nina Powles, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nashua Gallagher, All the Words a Stage, Chameleon Press, 2018. 102 pgs. “They place me in new soil…
![[Review] There’s No Place Like Home: Nashua Gallagher’s All the Words a Stage](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/nashua-gallagher_all-the-words-a-stage.jpg)
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{Written by John W. Steele, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jenna Le, A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora, Indolent Books, 2018. 94 pgs. In this stunning…
![[Review] An Anatomy of Trauma: Jenna Le’s A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/jenna-le-a-history-of-the-cetacean-american-diaspora.jpg)
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{Written by Maialen Marin-Lacarta, this review is part of Issue 42 (December 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Aili Mu (translator and editor) with Mike Smith (contributor), Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories: A Parallel Text, Columbia University…
![[REVIEW] “Spreading the Genre: A review of 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡-𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by Maialen Marin-Lacarta](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cha_review_contemporary-chinese-short-short-stories.jpg)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read a response from the translators of Little Reunions, Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz here and…
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{Written by Ronald Torrance, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Su Tong (author), Jane Weizhen Pan (translator) and Martin Merz (translator), Petulia’s Rouge Tin, Penguin, 2018. 106 pgs.…
![[Review] “Preserving the Unspoken Past: Su Tong’s Petulia’s Rouge Tin” by Ronald Torrance](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/9780734399496.jpg)
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kawika Guillermo, Stamped: An Anti-travel Novel, Westphalia, 2018. 360 pgs. He understood that need to escape, but…
![[REVIEW] “‘So punk in drublic’; or, ‘Stepping in her footprints to erase your being here’—Kawika Guillermo’s Stamped: An Anti-travel Novel” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/stamped1.jpg)
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NOTE: We have now reopened the submission window for PROSE entries (fiction and creative non-fiction) and PHOTOGRAPHY/ART until Friday 9 November 2018. If you would like your work considered for inclusion in our Eleventh Anniversary Issue (tentatively scheduled for publication…
