Category: Jeff Tompkins
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kong Shangren (author), Wai-yee Li (translator), The Peach Blossom Fan, Oxford University Press, 2024. 816 pgs. Wai-yee Li is one translator who knows how to hook a reader.…
![[REVIEW] βThings Fall Apart: Kong Shangrenβs πβπ ππππβ π΅πππ π ππ πΉππβ by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/the-peach-blossom-fan.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS π RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Bei Dao (author), Jeffrey Yang (translator), Sidetracks, New Directions, 2024. 176 pgs. The βsidetracksβ of Bei Daoβs title can first be understood as a structural metaphorβtwo parallel…
![[REVIEW] “The Fugitive: Bei Daoβs πππππ‘πππππ ” by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/sidetracks-bei-dao_cha.jpg?w=611)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Chaos and Order: The Way of Johnnie To, a 24-film retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 12 Septemberβ13 October 2024. Exiled γζΎΒ·ιγ 2006. Hong Kong.…
![[REVIEW] βJohnnie To Unleashes Chaos and Order at New Yorkβs Museum of Modern Artβ by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/exiled_johnnieto.jpeg?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yao-Chang Chen (author), Pao-Fang Hsu, Ian Maxwell, and Tung-Jung Chen (translators), Puppet Flower: A Novel of 1867 Formosa. Columbia University Press, 2023, 298 pgs. The American servicemen are in…
![[REVIEW] βSend in the Marines: Yao-Chang Chenβs ππ’ππππ‘ πΉπππ€ππβby Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/puppet-flower-a-novel-of-1867-formosa.jpg?w=972)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Read “Reading Jin Yong in Translation, Part I” HERE.ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ on John Minford. Jin Yong, aka Louis Cha Leung-yung (1924-2018). Picture via. β Jin Yong…
![[EXCLUSIVE] βHot Popping Momma!: Reading Jin Yong in Translation, Part II” by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240315172927214401contentphoto4.jpg?w=1000)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entriesΒ in Cha on The Life of Tu Fu. Eliot Weinberger, The Life of Tu Fu, New Directions, 2024, 80 pp. In an authorβs…
![[REVIEW] “He Records the Dawns and the Sunsets: Eliot Weinberger’s πβπ πΏπππ ππ ππ’ πΉπ’” by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/the-life-of-tu-fu.jpg?w=745)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Read βReading Jin Yong in Translation, Part IIβ HERE. Jin Yong, aka Louis Cha Leung-yung (1924β2018). Picture via. β Jin Yong (author), Shelly Bryant, Gigi Chang, and Anna Holmwood…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Kung Fu Is a Store of Infinite Fun: Reading Jin Yong in Translation, Part I” by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/legends-of-the-condor-heroes--2.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Tony Rayns, In the Mood for Love, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. 96 pgs. βI didnβt think youβd fall in love with me,β says Mrs Chan. βI didnβt either,β says Mr…
![[REVIEW] “Feelings Can Creep Up Just Like That: Wong Kar-wai’s πΌπ π‘βπ ππππ πππ πΏππ£π” by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/screenshot-2023-12-28-at-13.07.29.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Alexa Alice Joubin, Shakespeare and East Asia, Oxford University Press, 2021. 272 pp. βWhat country, friends, is this?β Viola asks at the beginning of Shakespeareβs Twelfth Night, when her…
![[REVIEW] “Will in the World: Alexa Alice Joubin’s πβππππ πππππ πππ πΈππ π‘ π΄π ππ” by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20210429_readred_banner-01.png?w=875)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Peng Hsiao-yen (editor), The Assassin: Hou Hsiao-hsienβs World of Tang China, Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 252 ppgs. Published in 2019 by the Hong Kong University Press, The Assassin: Hou…
![[REVIEW] “A Historically Cosmopolitan, Mixed Culture: π»ππ’ π»π πππ-π»π πππβπ πππππ ππ ππππ πΆβπππβ by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/the-assassin.jpeg?w=1024)
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