Category: Lian-Hee Wee

  • 📁 Visit Write to Power to read the selected poems and the poets’ reflections on their poems. These days, in many places, many things can’t be said directly. Can we say them in poetry? Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is…

    [CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS] The Write to Power Special Feature 
  • 📁RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Listen. Chan Kwan Ee Tom, Listen, Atmosphere Press, 2023. In monochrome, a fallen beast is manipulated by puppet strings that ensnare a hand. Upon closer inspection,…

    [REVIEW] “What Did I Hope to Hear?: A Review of Chan Kwan Ee Tom’s 𝐿𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛” by Lian-Hee Wee
  • 📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Brian Sze-hang Kwok, Fading Neon Lights: An Archive of Hong Kong’s Visual Culture, City University of Hong Kong Press, 2023. 202 pgs. Brian Sze-hang Kwok may not know the…

    [REVIEW] “Pangs of Things That Have Passed—Brian Sze-hang Kwok’s 𝐹𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑁𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠: 𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔’𝑠 𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒” by Lian-Hee Wee
  • 📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY **VI IV** Jackasses understood nothing ever, Fighting others undertaking random things hopeful. 19 or 89 years. Do you see a weep in the palindrome I stole from social media? We forgive teens, allowing two decades…

    [JUST ANOTHER DAY] Lian-Hee Wee
  • [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 Lian-Hee Wee read excerpts from Ruth Smythers’s Sex Tips for Husbands & Wives from 1894 and Timothy…

    LOVE: Lian-Hee Wee
  • 📁 Visit Auditory Cortex 2021-2023to read and listen to the selected poemsas well as read the poets’ reflections. We are currently accepting submissions for the Auditory Cortex 2021-2023 special feature devoted entirely to Asian voices. Selected poems are published on…

    [CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS] The Auditory Cortex Special Feature (2021-2023)
  • ➑➒➏➍ [Return to Table of Contents.] Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On (Mon 3 June 2019; 730 pm) Cha and PEN Hong Kong Media support: Hong Kong Free Press Venue: Bleak House Books Moderator: Tammy Ho SET ONE Lian-Hee Wee’s “Duckgate…

    Lian-Hee Wee
  • Due to unforeseen reasons, the “Writing Vietnam” issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, originally scheduled for publication in September 2019, will be postponed to 2021. In light of this change, below is our new publication plan for the rest…

    Cha’s Publication Plan 2019
  • This Cha and Stray Cats Jimusho 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 Saturday 24 November 2018.…

    “Reflection on Cha x Stray Cats Jimusho” by Lian-Hee Wee
  • We are very excited to announce that, for the first time, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal will be publishing a special feature devoted entirely to Asian voices. The feature, to be published in June 2019, is entitled “Auditory Cortex”, and it…

    The Auditory Cortex Special Feature (June 2019)
  • One-Day Literary Writing Lodge in Hong Kong Voices (Saturday 15 December 2018) We are excited to announce that the Department of English Language and Literature at the Hong Kong Baptist University is collaborating with the award-winning Cha: An Asian Literary Journal…

    One-Day Literary Writing Lodge in Hong Kong Voices (15 December 2018)
  • [Download Lian-Hee’s selected text here.] [Return to Table of Contents.] LIAN-HEE WEE 黃良喜 is (co-)author or (co-)editor of eight books and numerous research articles. His most notable publications include the monograph Phonological Tone (Cambridge University Press, to appear) and the…

    Lian-Hee Wee
  • Thank you for Cha‘s co-editor Tammy Ho Lai-Ming’s invitation to the Cha Reading Series event “Sayang Singapura” (Thursday 3 May 2018), which featured three Cha contributors originally from Singapore—Kum Hoon Ng, Eddie Tay (also Cha‘s Reviews Editor) and Lian-Hee Wee. It…

    “On Sayang Singapura” by Karen Chan
  • The auditory cortex is the part of the brain that performs the basic and higher functions of hearing such as language switching. In the case of an Asian English poet, a historical collocation of multilingual sounds likely interplays forcefully in…

    “Auditory Cortex”—Winners and Finalists
  • Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue 39, scheduled for publication in March 2018. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here. Deadline: 31…

    Cha — Call for Submissions — Issue 39 (March 2018)
  • UPDATE (Sunday 22 April 2018): Please click here to see the list of winners and finalists. This contest, entitled “Auditory Cortex”, is run by the first and only Hong Kong-based English-language free-access online literary journal, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. The…

    Auditory Cortex: A Poetry Contest
  • We are very happy to announce that selected poems from the ten-year history of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (November 2007-October 2017) will be published in a special edition of the Hong Kong-based print poetry magazine, Voice & Verse, in February 2018.…

    Announcement: Collaboration with Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine
  • Find out more about #WRITERSRESIST in Hong Kong by clicking here. Runyu Huang 黃潤宇,青年寫作者,江蘇無錫人,現於香港就讀。寫詩寫文,作品偶見於香港媒體、藝文刊物如《明報·世紀版》、《字花》等。 Akin Jeje, originally from Canada, now lives in Hong Kong. His works have been published and featured in Canada and Hong Kong. His poetry collection Smoked…

    #WRITERSRESIST in Hong Kong — Readers