Category: June 2019
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{Written by May Huang, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mi Jialu (author), Jennifer Feeley, Matt Turner, Haiying Weng, Lucas Klein, Michael Day, and Feng Yi (translators), Deep…
![[Review] “Songs of the Seasons: Mi Jialu’s Deep Breaths” by May Huang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/deep-breaths.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Isabelle Lim, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Philip Holden (editor), Hook and Eye: Stories from the Margins, Ethos Books, 2018. 216 pgs. In his introduction…
![[REVIEW] “Peripheral Visions: π»πππ πππ πΈπ¦π: ππ‘πππππ ππππ π‘βπ πππππππ ” by Isabelle Lim](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/hook-and-eye-1.jpg?w=627)
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{Written by Sumit Ray, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sumana Roy, Out of Syllabus: Poems, Speaking Tiger Books, 2019. 136 pgs. Sumana Roy’s first poetry collection, Out…
![[REVIEW] “A Writer of Rare Sensitivity: Sumana Roy’s Out of Syllabus: Poems” by Sumit Ray](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/out-of-syllabus-1.jpg?w=480)
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{Written by Cameron L. White, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} “City Issue: Hong Kong”, edited by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, World Literature Today, Volume 93 No. 2, University…
![[Review] “Seeing a City Through Words: The Hong Kong Issue of πππππ πΏππ‘ππππ‘π’ππ ππππ𦔠by Cameron L. White](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/hong-kong_world-literature-today.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Tom Marling, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Anna Wang, Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and the China Before and After,…
![[Review] “Pleasantly Inconsequential Insights: Anna Wang’s: Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and the China Before and After” by Tom Marling](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/inconvenient-memories_anna-wang.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Karen Kao, The Dancing Girl and the Turtle, Linen Press, 2017. 245 pgs. Karen Kao’s debut novel, the…
![[REVIEW] “Karen Kao’s The Dancing Girl and the Turtle” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/the-dancing-girl-and-the-turtle-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Kathy Yanbin Cai, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mingwei Song and Theodore Huters (editors), The Reincarnated Giant: Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction, Columbia University Press, 2018.…
![[REVIEW] “A Chinese New-Wave of Science Fiction: πβπ π
πππππππππ‘ππ πΊππππ‘: ππ€πππ‘π¦-πΉπππ π‘-πΆπππ‘π’ππ¦ πΆβππππ π πππππππ πΉπππ‘πππ” by Kathy Yanbin Cai](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/reincarnated-giant.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Henrik Hoeg, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Joshua Ip, footnotes on falling, Math Paper Press, 2018. 70 pgs. Writing a review of a poetry collection…
![[REVIEW] “Why and How to Read Joshua Ip’s footnotes on falling” by Henrik Hoeg](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/footnotes-on-falling-1.jpeg?w=533)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Frank Langfitt, The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China, Public Affairs,…
![[Review] “When Past and Present Merge: Frank Langfitt’s The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/the-shanghai-free-taxi.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jennifer Anne Eagleton, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wayne Ng, Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu, Earnshaw Books, 2018. 280 pgs. Finding the…
![[Review] “Wayne Ng’s πΉππππππ π‘βπ πππ¦: π΄ πππ£ππ ππ πΏππ ππ§π’” by Jennifer Anne Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/finding-the-way_wayne-ng-1.png?w=544)
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{Written by David W. Landrum, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mao Xiang (author), Jan Fang and Lifang He (translators), The Romance of a Literatus and his Concubine…
![[REVIEW] “Love Among the Ruins: πβπ π
ππππππ ππ π πΏππ‘ππππ‘π’π πππ βππ πΆππππ’ππππ ππ πππ£πππ‘ππππ‘β-πΆπππ‘π’ππ¦ πΆβπππ” by David W. Landrum](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/the-romance-of-a-literatus-and-his-concubine-in-seventeenth-century-china-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Marsha McDonald, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Leanne Dunic, To Love the Coming End, Chin Music Press, 2017. 98 pgs. Leanne Dunic’s first novel, To…
![[REVIEW] “Remains Of: Leanne Dunic’s ππ πΏππ£π π‘βπ πΆπππππ πΈππ” by Marsha McDonald](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/to-love-the-coming-end-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Aakriti Kuntal, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Kiriti Sengupta. Kiriti Sengupta, Rituals, Hawakal Publishers, 2019. 100 pgs. Rituals, Kiriti Sengupta’s newest…
![[Review] “Ethereal Algorithms of Life: Kiriti Sengupta’s Rituals” by Aakriti Kuntal](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/kiriti-sengupta_rituals-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by David Haysom, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Can Xue (author), Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (translator), Love in the New Millennium, Yale University Press, 2018. 288 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Delightful Absurdities: Can Xue’s πΏππ£π ππ π‘βπ πππ€ πππππππππ’π” by David Haysom](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/new-love.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Stephen Davies, Strong to Save: Maritime Mission in Hong Kong, from Whampoa Reach to the Mariners’ Club, City…
![[Review] “Strong to Save: Maritime Mission in Hong Kong, from Whampoa Reach to the Mariners’ Club” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/strong-to-save-maritime-mission-in-hong-kong-from-whampoa-reach-to-the-mariners-club.jpg?w=1024)
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NOTE: We are still accepting submissions of photography & art for the “Tiananmen Thirty Years On” feature. Deadline: Monday 20 May 2019. 4 June 2019 will mark thirty years since the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, when the Chinese government…
![[Call for Submissions] “Tiananmen Thirty Years On” Feature (June 2019)](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/candle-vigil.png?w=1024)
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Β 4 June 2019 will mark thirty years since the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, when the Chinese government crushed the nascent democracy movement led by students and workers. The ensuing decades have brought tumultuous changes to the culture, politics,…
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