Category: Jason S Polley—CHA
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “How beautiful will be the feet, of the one who comes to announce my death to me”: Patrick Holland’s Oblivion as “inchoate place on the shores of Oblivion and Mnemosyne” by Jason S…
![[REVIEW] “How beautiful will be the feet, of the one who comes to announce my death to me”: Patrick Holland’s 𝑂𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑛 as “inchoate place on the shores of Oblivion and Mnemosyne” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/patrick-hollands-oblivion.jpg)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS Editor’s note: Jason S Polley opens his review essay by recounting his fond and fervent championing of Kit Fan’s first novel, Diamond Hill (2021), whose Cantonese-inflected language enabled rare intergenerational and…
![[ESSAY] “𝑍𝑜𝑖 𝐺𝑖𝑛 Canton: Reading Kit Fan’s 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑏𝑦𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/goodbye-chinatown-kit-fan-cha.jpg)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kawika Guillermo, Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir, Duke University Press, 2023. 240 pgs. Fuck ’em all. Squares on bothsides. I am the only completeman in the industry.—Burroughs, Naked Lunch…
![[REVIEW] “ ‘________________________’: Rererecapitulating Kawika Guillermo’s Devastatingly Wondrous 𝑁𝑖𝑚𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑠: 𝐴 𝐹𝑎𝑘𝑒-𝑃𝑢𝑛𝑘 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑓-𝐻𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝐴𝑛𝑡𝑖-𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑟” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/kawika-guillermo-devastating-nimrods-a-fake-punk-self-hurt-anti-memoir-.jpg)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Matthew Wong Foreman, Sunset at Lion Rock, Proverse Press, 2024. 288 pgs. ………I’ve no strength left to stop the contradiction………My heart is tired and my eyes blurry you know………—Leslie…
![[REVIEW] “Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Among Many, Many Other Things: Matthew Wong Foreman’s 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝐿𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/matthew-wong-foreman-sunset-at-lion-rock-1.jpg)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Douglas Robinson, Gulliver’s Voyage to Phantomimia: A Transcreation, Zeta Books, 2020. 356 pgs. I imagine, that in the Great Deluge, 2 sworn Enemies, having clumb up onto the same…
![[REVIEW] “‘What is He Doing Playing Fantastickall Fictive Games with Realitie?’ Or, ‘A Pandemonium of Embraces’: Luxuriating in Douglas Robinson’s Transcreation of Volter Kilpi’s Unfinished 𝐺𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑉𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑃ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑎” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/gullivers-voyage-to-phantomimia-a-transcreation-1.png)
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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 Jason S Polley read two poems by Wallace Stevens—both are available in the public domain. PHASES I.There’s…
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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)
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As part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership with the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation and supported by the English Departments at CUHK and HKBU, I visited students at the Shek Mun campus of the College of International Education (CIE),…
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This Cha and WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong Ltd. event was part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership with the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation and supported by the English Departments at CUHK and HKBU, and it was conducted on Sunday 11…
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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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As part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, I visited students at CCC Kung Lee College on Monday 30 April 2018, invited by one of the teachers there, William Ng, who was a former student at Hong Kong Baptist University..The…
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Written by Jason S Polley. WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong Ltd. was officially registered in 2011 as a non-profit and charitable organisation and its primary objective is to support the capacity building and empowerment of migrant communities regardless of nationalities and…
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} 📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Henry Wei Leung, Goddess of Democracy:…
![[REVIEW] “Eloquence, Anger, Sincerity—Henry Wei Leung’s 𝐺𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑦: 𝐴𝑛 𝑂𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑝𝑦 𝐿𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑐” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/leung-goddess-cover-21.jpg)
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{Written by Jason S Polley, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} 📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Christopher DeWolf, Borrowed…
![[REVIEW] “Impromptu Performances and Wild Exhibitions: Christopher DeWolf’s 𝐵𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠: 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔” by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/97807343108591.jpg)