Category: Issue 46
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{Written by Tim Murphy, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βCanonical Stories, Replacement Texts: A Review of The Japanese Discovery of Chinese…
![[REVIEW] βCanonical Stories, Replacement Texts: A Review of πβπ π½ππππππ π π·ππ πππ£πππ¦ ππ πΆβππππ π πΉπππ‘πππβ by Tim Murphy](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/william-c.-hedberg-the-japanese-discovery-of-chinese-fiction.jpeg?w=870)
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{Written by Ari Santiago, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tahi Saihate (author) and Kalau Almony (translator), Astral Season, Beastly Season, Honford Star, 2021. 144 pgs. Contemporary young adult fiction has a…
![[REVIEW] βLashing Out: A Review of Tahi Saihateβs π΄π π‘πππ ππππ ππ, π΅πππ π‘ππ¦ ππππ ππβ by Ari Santiago](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/astral-season-beastly-season-tahi-saihate-translated-by-kalau-almony.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} YΕ« Miri (author), Morgan Giles (translator), Tokyo Ueno Station, Tilted Axis Press, 2021. 197 pgs. Though hosting the Olympic Games has often been seen as an attempt by governments to boost the…
![[REVIEW] “The Plight of the Homeless in Japan: A Review of YΕ« Miri’s ππππ¦π ππππ ππ‘ππ‘πππ” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tokyouenostation-2.jpg?w=762)
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Click HERE to read Michael O’Sullivan’s reflection on writing Lockdown Lovers, written exclusively for Cha, and an excerpt from the novel. πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Lockdown Lovers. Michael O’Sullivan, Lockdown…
![[REVIEW] βBefore We Know How It Will End: A Review of Michael OβSullivanβs πΏππππππ€π πΏππ£πππ β by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/lockdown-lovers_michael-osullivan.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Frances An, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Yeng Pway Ngon (author), Jeremy Tiang (translator), Costume, Balestier Press, 2020. 269 pgs. βLike so many of his characters, he [Yeng Pway Ngon] was…
![[REVIEW] βCantonese Opera as Collective Imagination: A Review of Yeng Pway Ngonβs πΆππ π‘π’ππβ by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/yeng-pway-ngon_costume_jeremy-tiang.png?w=1024)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Layered Spaces: A Review of Chi Ta-wei’sΒ The Membranes” by Serena De Marchi Chi Ta-wei (author), Ari Larissa Heinrich (translator),Β The Membranes, Columbia University Press, 2021. 168 pgs. Chi Ta-weiβs classic of…
![[REVIEW] “Layered Spaces: A Review of Chi Ta-wei’sΒ πβπ πππππππππ ” by Serena De Marchi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/layered-spaces-a-review-of-chi-ta-weis-the-membranes-1.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Wong Yang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Daryl Lim Wei Jie, A Book of Changes, Math Paper Press, 2016. 65 pgs. Few collections coming out of Singapore literatureβs βnew waveβ of…
![[REVIEW] “No Absolutes: A Review of Daryl Lim Wei Jie’s π΄ π΅πππ ππ πΆβπππππ ” by Wong Yang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/bookofchanges_front_078e160a-9c71-4861-a841-247fdebb0332.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Stephen Griffiths, The Kowloon English Club, Blacksmith Books, 2021. 292 pgs. Hong Kong in 1996 was a special time. The Handover was a…
![[REVIEW] “The Centre of the Universe: A Review of Stephen Griffiths’s The Kowloon English Club” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/kowloon-english-club-800px.jpeg?w=672)
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{Written by Jennifer Anne Eagleton, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Aftershock. Holmes Chan (editor), Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong, Small Tune Press, 2020. 93 pgs. Aftershocks are small…
![[REVIEW] “Hong Kong’s Unstable Fault Lines: A Review of π΄ππ‘πππ βπππ” by Jennifer Anne Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/aftershock_edited-by-holmes-chan.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Frances An, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Rosemary Roberts and Li Li (editors), The Making and Remaking of Chinaβs Red Classics: Politics, Aesthetics, and Mass Culture, Hong Kong University…
![[REVIEW] “Amid Corrupt Cultural Landscapes: A Review of The Making and Remaking of Chinaβs Red Classics” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/the-making-and-remaking-of-chinas-red-classics-politics-aesthetics-and-mass-culture.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Quenntis Ashby, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jason Erik Lundberg, A Fickle and Restless Weapon, Epigram Books, 2020. 456 pgs. Jason Erik Lundbergβs debut novel is a fascinating and…
![[REVIEW] “Identity is a Constant Negotiation and Struggle for a Self-Worth Fighting For: A Review of Jason Erik Lundbergβs A Fickle and Restless Weapon” by Quenntis Ashby](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/a-fickle-and-restless-weapon.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Karen Ma, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Heather Diamond, Rabbit in the Moon, Camphor Press, 2021. 302 pgs. Editors’ note: Rabbit in the Moon is scheduled for publication on…
![[REVIEW] “A Bittersweet Reminder: Reviewing Rabbit in the Moon” by Karen Ma](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/rabbit-in-the-moon-cover_heather-diamond-1.jpeg?w=994)
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{Written by Cherrie Kwok, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Aftershock. Holmes Chan (editor), Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong, Small Tune Press, 2020. 93 pgs. The cover of Aftershock:…
![[REVIEW] “Traces that Haunt the Scene: A Review of π΄ππ‘πππ βπππ” by Cherrie Kwok](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/aftershock_holmes-chan.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} The Bauhinia Project, Hong Kong Without Us: A Peopleβs Poetry, University of Georgia Press, 2021. 120 pgs. Figures take shape insofar as we can recognise, in passing discourse, something that has been read,…
![[REVIEW] “A Time Capsule and a Seed: Reviewing π»πππ πΎπππ πππ‘βππ’π‘ ππ ” by Sam Cheuk](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/hong-kong-without-us.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Malcolm Merry, The Unruly New Territories: Small Houses, Ancestral Estates, Illegal Structures, and Other Customary Land Practices of Rural Hong Kong, Hong Kong…
![[REVIEW] “Truculent Attitude and Independent Spirit: A Review of Malcolm Merry’s The Unruly New Territories” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/the-unruly-new-territories-small-houses-ancestral-estates-illegal-structures-and-other-customary-land-practices-of-rural-hong-kong-1.jpeg?w=666)
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{Written by James Au Kin-Pong, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Minae Mizumura (author), Juliet Winters Carpenter (translator; in collaboration with the author), An I-Novel, Columbia University Press, 2021. 325 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Pursuing Her Japanese Identity: A Review of Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/an-i-novel-minae-mizumura-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Joshua Bird, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Barak Kushner and Andrew Levidis (editors), In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire Imperial Violence: State Destruction, and the Reordering of Modern…
![[REVIEW] “Ongoing Legacy: Reviewing πΌπ π‘βπ π
π’πππ ππ π‘βπ π½ππππππ π πΈπππππΒ πΌπππππππ ππππππππ” by Joshua Bird](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/in-the-ruins-of-the-japanese-empire-.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 46 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, City University of Hong Kong Press,…
![[REVIEW] “A Catalyst for Repealing Anti-Gay Statutes: Reviewing Nigel Collett’s π΄ π·πππ‘β ππ π»πππ πΎπππ” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/a-death-in-hong-kong_nigel-collett.jpeg?w=683)
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{Written by Chase Michael Greenfield, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Quan Manh Ha and Joseph Babcock (translators and editors), Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its…
![[REVIEW] βWhat We Never Carried Back: A Review of Vietnamese Stories in ππ‘βππ πππππ ” by Chase Michael Greenfield](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/other-moons-vietnamese-short-stories.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Suyin Haynes, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Patricia OβSullivan, Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-1941, Blacksmith Books, 2020. 344 pgs. In early March 1926, Hong Kong was…
![[REVIEW] “Part of a Rare Breed: Reviewing Patricia OβSullivan’s πππππ, πΆππππ πππ π‘βπ πΆππ’ππ‘π ” by Suyin Haynes](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/women-crime-and-the-courts-hong-kong.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Jimin Kang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Aftershock. Holmes Chan (editor), Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong, Small Tune Press, 2020. 93 pgs. Aftershock: Essays from Hong…
![[REVIEW] “Testimony Will Always Prevail: A Review of π΄ππ‘πππ βπππ” by Jimin Kang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/aftershock_holmes-chan-1.jpeg?w=500)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Francisca Yuenki Lai, Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires, Hong Kong University Press, 2020. 148 pgs. Itβs a Sunday afternoon in Kowloon Park or Victoria Park, Hong Kong, and Francisca…
![[REVIEW] “A Study of Where Sexuality is Produced: Reviewing Maid to Queer” by Noah Arthur Weber](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/francisca-yuenki-lai-maid-to-queer-asian-labor-migration-and-female-same-sex-desires.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Written by Ari Santiago, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Zafar Anjum (editor),Β The Best Asian Short Stories 2020, Kitaab, 2020. 268 pgs. Collections titled βthe bestβ are always kind of presumptuous,…
![[REVIEW] “Asia in So Many Words: A Review of πβπ π΅ππ π‘ π΄π πππ πβπππ‘ ππ‘πππππ 2020” by Ari Santiago](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/tbass-2020-front-23-oct-1.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Carlos Rojas (special issue editor), Method as Method, V16: N2 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Duke University Press, 2019. According to a quick etymological internet search, the term βmethodβ originates in the…
![[REVIEW] “Review as Method: A Review of Method as Method” by Gareth Paul Breen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/prism_method-as-method.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} C.T. Au, The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan, Lexington Books, 2020. 202 pgs. C.T. Auβs The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung…
![[REVIEW] “Dissected by Theory: A Review of C.T. Au’s The Hong Kong Modernism of Leung Ping-kwan” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/the-hong-kong-modernism-of-leung-ping-kwan_review.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} YΕ« Miri (author) and Morgan Giles (translator), Tokyo Ueno Station, Tilted Axis Press, 2019 (first published in 2014). 197 pgs. Kazu Mori is…
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{Written by Elaine Chiew, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Chia Joo Ming (Author), Sim Wai Chew (Translator), Exile or Pursuit, Balestier Press, 2019. 306 pgs. Exile or Pursuit employs the genre…
![[REVIEW] βBildungsroman of a Singaporean Ordinary Joe: A Review of Chia Joo Mingβs πΈπ₯πππ ππ ππ’ππ π’ππ‘” by Elaine Chiew](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/exile-or-pursuit.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Leslie Shimotakahara, Red Oblivion, Dundurn Press, 2019. 304 pgs. Jill Lau and her sister Celeste rush to visit their elderly father after…
![[REVIEW] “A Stirring Tribute to Hong Kong: A Review of Leslie Shimotakahara’s Red Oblivion” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/red-obivion_shimotakahara.png?w=1024)
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{Written byΒ Marc de Faoite, this review is part of Issue 46 ofΒ Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (author) and Arunava Sinha (translator), The Yogini, Tilted Axis Press, 2019. 208 pgs. The Yogini is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyayβs third…
![[REVIEW] “Parallel and Intertwining Interpretations: Reviewing Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay’s πβπ ππππππ” by Marc de Faoite](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/the-yogini.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Carlos Rojas (special issue editor), Method as Method, V16: N2 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Duke University Press, 2019. Method here is used as a βprismβ to tease out our underlying assumptions…
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