Category: Issue 43 “Writing Macau”
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{Written by Michael Ka-chi Cheuk, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Gao Xingjian (author), Gilbert C. F. Fong (translator), Wandering Mind and Metaphysical Thoughts, The Chinese University Press,…
![[REVIEW] “The Hedgehog and the Worm: Gao Xingjian’s 𝑊𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠” by Michael Ka-chi Cheuk](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gao-xingjian.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Pinky Lui Chung-Man, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Marshall Moore, Inhospitable, Camphor Press, 2018. 302 pgs. Ghosts are real in Marshall Moore’s Inhospitable. Either as…
![[Review] “Ghosts in the Flesh: Marshall Moore’s Inhospitable” by Pinky Lui Chung-Man](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/inhospitable_moore.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Aurelio Asiain, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Gergana Ivanova, Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic, Columbia University Press, 2018. 240…
![[Review] “An Incessantly Growing, Proliferating, Echoing Book: Gergana Ivanova’s 𝑈𝑛𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘” by Aurelio Asiain](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/unbinding-the-pillow-book-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Dragoş Ilca, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sheng Keyi (author), Shelly Bryant (translator), Wild Fruit, Penguin, 2018. 350 pgs. Wild Fruit is split into three…
![[REVIEW] “Building It Up So That It May Fall Again: Sheng Keyi’s 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝐹𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑡” by Dragoş Ilca](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/wild-fruit-sheng-keyi-review.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Xu Xi, Insignificance, Typhoon Media/Signal 8 Press, 2018. 190 pgs. Compared to her previous work, the stories in…
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{Written by Stephanie Studzinski, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Greg Santos, Blackbirds, Eyewear Publishing, 2018. 44 pgs. ❀ Anuradha Vijayakrishnan, The Who-Am-I Bird, Bombaykala Books, 2018. 70 pgs.…
![[Review] “Four Birds of a Far Flown Feather: Four Poetry Collections” by Stephanie Studzinski](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/stephanie-studzinski_cha-review.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Konstandinos Mahoney, Tutti Frutti, SPM Publications, 2018. 78 pgs. Tutti Frutti is a wonderful collection of condensed, original,…
![[REVIEW] “The Love Songs of Dino Mahoney” by Kate Rogers](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tutti-frutti_cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Claire Cuccio, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Makoto Ōoka (author), Janine Beichman (translator), Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets: Selected Poems, Kurodahan Press, 2018.…
![[Review] “Poetry Universe: Makoto Ōoka’s Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets: Selected Poems” by Claire Cuccio](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/beneath-the-sleepless_cha-review.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Carolyn Lau, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Huang Lihai (author), Kit Kelen and Chris Song (translators), feed birds rainbows, ASM and Cerberus Press, 2014. 132…
![[REVIEW] “On Three Bilingual Pocket Books by Poet-travellers” by Carolyn Lau](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/three-bilingual-books.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jason Y. Ng and Susan Blumberg-Kason (editors), Hong Kong Noir, Akashic and Blacksmith Books, 2018. 256 pgs. Elegiac…
![[REVIEW] “Hong Kong Noir” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/hong-kong-noir_cha.jpg?w=509)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ivy Ngeow, Heart of Glass, Unbound Digital, 2018. 256 pgs. I was in New York in January for…
![[Review] “Love and Longing in Macau: Ivy Ngeow’s Heart of Glass” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/heart-of-glass_asian-cha-review.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Wong Wen Pu, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Kirsten Han, The Silhouette of Oppression, Epigram Books, 2019. 48 pgs. ❀ Alfian Sa’at, A Manifesto for Arts…
![[REVIEW] “Rational Conversations: Some Essays on Political and Civic Sustainability in Singapore” by Wong Wen Pu](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/rational-conversations-2.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Ophelia Tung Ho Yiu, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Kit Kelen, As to the ladders of whichway, ASM, 2014. 165 pgs. ❀ Roger Palmer and Tim Simpson,…
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} 📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yi T’aejun (author), Janet Poole (translator),…
![[Review] “Deep down he felt a little jealous of his own writing; or, time never passes as quickly as when holding a pen—Yi T’aejun’s 𝐷𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/dust-and-other-stories_asian-cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Gabrielle Flores, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Gina Apostol, Insurrecto, Soho Press, 2018. 336 pgs. It’s hard to begin a review for a novel that…
![[REVIEW] “The Frustrating Elegance of Gina Apostol’s 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜” by Gabrielle Flores](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/gina-apostols-insurrecto.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jennifer Mackenzie, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Brian Castro & John Young, Macau Days, Art+Australia Publishing, 2017. 187 pgs. For more than five centuries, the…
![[Review] “A Trilingual History of Benevolence: Brian Castro & John Young’s 𝑀𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑢 𝐷𝑎𝑦𝑠” by Jennifer Mackenzie](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/macau-days_cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nigel Collett, A Death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal,…
![[REVIEW] “Nigel Collett’s 𝐴 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑐𝐿𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 1980 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑆𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑙” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/a-death-in-hong-kong_cropped.jpg?w=1024)
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::::: We have extended the period of submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and photography & art to the “Writing Macau” issue to 31 January 2019. ::::: We are very pleased to announce that in April 2019 Cha will be publishing a…
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