Category: Michael Tsang
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Lucy Hamilton, The Widening of Tolo Highway: A Hong Kong Story of Paranoia and Protest, Penguin Random House SEA, 2022. 236 pgs. When, one-third into a novel, you still…
![[REVIEW] “Hong Kong as Method: Lucy Hamilton’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑇𝑜𝑙𝑜 𝐻𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑤𝑎𝑦” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/the-widening-of-the-tolo-highway-1.jpg?w=426)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ozawa Minoru (author), Janine Beichman (translator), Well-Versed: Exploring Modern Japanese Haiku, with photography by Maeda Shinzō and Akira, Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2021. 375 pgs. Haiku has…
![[REVIEW] “Beautifully Produced—Ozawa Minoru’s 𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙-𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑: 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑖𝑘𝑢” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/well-versed.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY It happened when I was prepping for a roundtable on Hong Kong I am taking part in tomorrow, deliberately timed to be a day after this, just another day. My soundtrack for work was the…
![[JUST ANOTHER DAY] Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/just-another-day_cha.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Choi Jin-young (author), Soje (translator). To the Warm Horizon, Honford Star, 2021. 172 pgs. Originally published in 2017, To the Warm Horizon is perhaps best seen as a curious example of a…
![[REVIEW] “Weirdness Unfulfilled: Choi Jin-young’s 𝑇𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝐻𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑜𝑛” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/warm-horizon.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wesley Leon Aroozoo. The Punkhawala and the Prostitute, Epigram, 2021. 352 pgs. A finalist of Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2021, Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s The Punkhawala and the Prostitute tells the tale of…
![[REVIEW] “Quintessential Singlit? Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑢𝑛𝑘ℎ𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/wesley-leon-aroozoos-the-punkhawala-and-the-prostitute.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jia Zhangke (director), Ash Is Purest White (Chinese name: 江湖兒女 Jianhu Ernü), 2018. 136 min. Note: This review contains spoilers. One of the most influential Chinese independent film directors today, Jia Zhangke turns to the…
![[REVIEW] “Not Her Story: Jia Zhangke’s 𝐴𝑠ℎ 𝐼𝑠 𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ash-is-purest-white.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tsering Döndrup (author), Christopher Peacock (translator), The Handsome Monk and Other Stories, Columbia University Press, 2019. 216 pgs. Tsering Döndrup’s The Handsome Monk and Other Stories shows that literatures from less visible…
![[REVIEW] “Noir Fables of Tibet: Tsering Döndrup’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/the-handsome-monk-and-other-stories_asian-cha.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} The Bauhinia Project, Hong Kong Without Us: A People’s Poetry, University of Georgia Press, 2021. 120 pgs. Unusual times call for unusual ways of self-expression. At a time when civil freedoms in Hong…
![[REVIEW] “Poetry Blossoms Everywhere: A Review of 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑈𝑠” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/hong-kong-without-us.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Amy L. Atchison and Shauna L. Shames, Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics, Columbia University Press, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “Not Definitive: A Review of Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/survide-and-resist_amy-l-atchison-shauna-l-shames.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Xu Xi, Insignificance, Typhoon Media/Signal 8 Press, 2018. 190 pgs. Compared to her previous work, the stories in…
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wendy Chen, Unearthings, Tavern Books, 2018. 104 pgs. In her debut poetry collection Unearthings, Wendy Chen muses on…
![[Review] “Reading History Slowly: Wendy Chen’s Unearthings” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Unearthings-1.jpg?w=386)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tarō Naka (author), Andrew Houwen and Chikako Nihei (translators), Music: Selected Poems, Isobar Press, 2018. 138 pgs. Tarō…
![[REVIEW] “Take on the Challenge: Tarō Naka’s 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐: 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑠” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Music_Selected-Poems.jpg?w=1024)
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◤ INTRODUCTION ◢ Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, Michael O’Sullivan, Eddie Tay, Michael Tsang ◤ ARTICLES ◢ ◍ Principles of the Hong Kong Kitchen Shorthand Winnie Cheung and Lian-Hee Wee◍ From Neon Signs to Skyscrapers: The Spectacle of Fluidity in Hong Kong’s Post/modern Cityscape Shao Yi…
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} This review contains spoilers to the entire franchise. Though highly celebrated commercially, Crazy Rich Asians the film also seems to…
![[REVIEW] “The Asian American Elite’s Victory: 𝐶𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑦 𝑅𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠 in Print and on Screen” by Michael tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/crazy-rich-asians_cha-journal.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wesley Leon Aroozoo (author), Miki Hawkinson (translator), I Want to Go Home, Math Paper Press, 2017. 222 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Memory, Trauma, Love: Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s 𝐼 𝑊𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝐺𝑜 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒／帰りたい” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/i-want-to-go-home.png?w=833)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Antony Dapiran, City of Protest: A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong, Penguin, 134…
![[Review] “Locked Potential: Antony Dapiran’s 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/city-of-protest1.jpg?w=400)
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} PEN Hong Kong, Hong Kong 20/20: Reflections on a borrowed place, Blacksmith Books, 2017. 400…
![[REVIEW] Candid Hong Kong: PEN Hong Kong’s Hong Kong 20/20](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/hk2020_cover_8001.jpg?w=800)
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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.…
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In early July, we sent out a call for poems about the Chinese Government’s White Paper on the “One Country, Two Systems” principle in Hong Kong. At the time, the publication of the paper, which formally precluded true democracy within…
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Pictured: Hong Kong Column – Translated (http://facebook.com/hkcolumn) Introduction Cha is seeking entries on the theme “Hong Kong Isn’t Going Anywhere Anytime Soon” in response to the Chinese Government’s White Paper (click here for more information) to be included in a…
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