Category: Paul French
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πRETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Lauren Walden, Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai, Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 152 pgs. In Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai, Lauren Walden has done modern Chinese art history a…
![[REVIEW] βRecovering Shanghaiβs Lost Surrealist Tradition: Lauren Waldenβs ππ’πππππππ π ππππ πππππ π‘π πβπππβππβ by Paul French](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/surrealism-from-paris-to-shanghai.jpg?w=1024)
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πRETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Paul French, Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson, St. Martin’s Press, 2024. 298 pgs. Wallis Simpson will forever be imprinted on British…
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS β Michihito Fujii (director), The Journalist, 2019. 113 min.β Michihito Fujii (director), A Family, 2021. 136 min.β Michihito Fujii (director), Village, 2023. 120 min. In these days of ever fewer choices…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Michihito Fujii on Netflix” by Paul French](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/michihito-fujii-1.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I have not finished the first draft of the new book I said I would have done by this week. Close, but not quite. Still need some words; still need to fiddle. Thereβs a magazine…
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{Written by Ronald Torrance, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Paul French, Destination: Shanghai, Blacksmith Books, 2019. 296 pgs. Shanghai, in its golden years of the first half of the…
![[REVIEW] βScintillating Tales of Shanghaiβs Sojourners: Paul Frenchβs π·ππ π‘ππππ‘πππ πβπππβππβ by Ronald Torrance](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/paul-french_destination-shanghai-1.jpg?w=1024)
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[Header: Cover image of the September 2016 (Issue 33) of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.] Strangers on the Praia [original link] byΒ Paul French It was the names that intrigued me. Strange β¦ foreign, not what you expect when searching the…
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{Written by Matt Turner, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Paul French, Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day, Penguin, 2017. 116 pgs. Most general summaries of Shanghai are too…
![[Review] Shanghai Swan Song: Paul French’s Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/bloody-saturday.jpg?w=400)
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