Category: Jeff Tompkins
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] βThrough the Time Tunnel and Written on Water: Eileen Chang Across Exile and Memoryβ by Jeff Tompkins β Eileen Chang (author), Karen S. KingsburyΒ andΒ Jie Zhang (translators). Time Tunnel, New York…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] βThings Fall Apart: Kong Shangrenβs The Peach Blossom Fanβ by Jeff Tompkins Kong Shangren (author), Wai-yee Li (translator). The Peach Blossom Fan, Oxford University Press, 2024. 816 pgs. Wai-yee Li…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Fugitive: Bei Daoβs Sidetracks” by Jeff Tompkins Bei Dao (author), Jeffrey Yang (translator), Sidetracks, New Directions, 2024. 176 pgs. The βsidetracksβ of Bei Daoβs title can first be understood…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βJohnnie To Unleashes Chaos and Order at New Yorkβs Museum of Modern Artβ by Jeff Tompkins Chaos and Order: The Way of Johnnie To, a 24-film retrospective at the Museum…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βSend in the Marines: Yao-Chang Chenβs Puppet Flowerβ by Jeff Tompkins Yao-Chang Chen (author), Pao-Fang Hsu, Ian Maxwell, and Tung-Jung Chen (translators). Puppet Flower: A Novel of 1867 Formosa. Columbia…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] βHot Popping Momma!: Reading Jin Yong in Translation, Part II” by Jeff Tompkins Read “Reading Jin Yong in Translation, Part I” HERE.ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ on John Minford. Jin Yong,…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “He Records the Dawns and the Sunsets: Eliot Weinberger’s The Life of Tu Fu” by Jeff Tompkins ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entriesΒ in Cha on The Life of Tu Fu. Eliot Weinberger,…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Kung Fu Is a Store of Infinite Fun: Reading Jin Yong in Translation, Part I” by Jeff Tompkins Read βReading Jin Yong in Translation, Part IIβ HERE. Jin Yong, aka…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Feelings Can Creep Up Just Like That: Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love” by Jeff Tompkins Tony Rayns, In the Mood for Love, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. 96 pgs. βI…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Will in the World: Alexa Alice Joubin’s Shakespeare and East Asia” by Jeff Tompkins Alexa Alice Joubin, Shakespeare and East Asia, Oxford University Press, 2021. 272 pp. Β βWhat country, friends,…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “A Historically Cosmopolitan, Mixed Culture: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s World of Tang China” by Jeff Tompkins Peng Hsiao-yen (editor), The Assassin: Hou Hsiao-hsienβs World of Tang China, Hong Kong University Press, 2019.…
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