Category: reviews of translations
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Hong Kong, Literature, Culture, History” by Jean-Claude Trutt, translated by Cyril Camus I must admit, however, that I never particularly liked the city. Editor’s note: An earlier version of this…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Satire, Science, and Utopia: Wu Jianren’s New Story of the Stone” by Ronald Gray Wu Jianren (author), Liz Evans Weber (translator). New Story of the Stone: An Early Chinese Science…
![[REVIEW] “Satire, Science, and Utopia: Wu Jianren’s 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒” by Ronald Gray](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/New-Story-of-the-Stone.png)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Beyond First Love: Family Trauma and the Search for Connection in Rio Shimamoto’s First Love” by James Kin Pong Au Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon First Love.…
![[ESSAY] “Beyond First Love: Family Trauma and the Search for Connection in Rio Shimamoto’s 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒” by James Kin Pong Au](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Rio-Shimamoto-First-Love.png)
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[ESSAY] “Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timothy Billings and Li Bai’s Farewell” by Will Buckingham
茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timothy Billings and Li Bai’s Farewell” by Will Buckingham Timothy Billings. Twenty-Nine Goodbyes: An Introduction to Chinese Poetry, Fordham University Press, 2025. Somewhere beyond the…
![[ESSAY] “Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Timothy Billings and Li Bai’s Farewell” by Will Buckingham](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Timothy-Billings.-Twenty-Nine-Goodbyes-An-Introduction-to-Chinese-Poetry.jpg)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Right to Remain: Akane Araki’s Murder at the End of the World” by Tyran Grillo Akane Araki (author), Jesse Kirkwood (translator). Murder at the End of the World. Pushkin Press, 2026.…
![[REVIEW] “The Right to Remain: Akane Araki’s 𝑀𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑” by Tyran Grillo](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/The-Right-to-Remain-Akane-Arakis-Murder-at-the-End-of-the-World.jpeg)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Unsold Peonies: Rediscovering the Voice of Courtesan, Nun, and Poet Yu Xuanji in Lucas Klein’s Translation” by Jennifer Eagleton Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon Hiding in Caverns.…
![[REVIEW] “Unsold Peonies: Rediscovering the Voice of Courtesan, Nun, and Poet Yu Xuanji in Lucas Klein’s Translation” by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Lucas-Klein-1.png)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Impossibility of Coming Home: Love, Memory and Political Trauma in Yan Geling’s Criminal Lu Yanshi” by Karen Ma Geling Yan (author), Lawrence A. Walker (translator). Criminal Lu Yanshi, New Song Media…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “The Violence of Being Understood: Rio Shimamoto’s First Love” by Tyran Grillo Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon First Love. Rio Shimamoto (author), Louise Heal Kawai (translator). First Love. Honford…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Reading María Teresa Ogliastri’s From the Diary of Madame Mao: Poetry, Politics and Memories of the Cultural Revolution” by Ming Wan All entries in Cha on Madame Mao. María Teresa…
![[ESSAY] “Reading María Teresa Ogliastri’s 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑜: Poetry, Politics and Memories of the Cultural Revolution” by Ming Wan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/from-the-diary-of-madame-mao.jpg)
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[ESSAY] “There Is Never Anything So Difficult That It Cannot Be Resolved: Translating the Ma Yongzhen and Ma Suzhen Novels of Qi Fanniu and Zhu Dagong” by Paul Bevan 🌻Paul Bevan (translator). Murder in the Maloo: A Tale of Old…
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[FEATURE] Four Chapters from Murder in the Maloo: A Tale of Old Shanghai, Translated by Paul Bevan Paul Bevan (translator). Murder in the Maloo: A Tale of Old Shanghai, Earnshaw Books, 2024. 226 pgs. Editor’s note: Readers interested in the background…
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[ESSAY] “One Poet, Two Translators: Preserving the Essence of Voice” by Yvette Neisser All entries in Cha on Madame Mao. María Teresa Ogliastri (author), Yvette Neisser and Patricia Bejarano Fisher (translators). From the Diary of Madame Mao. Carnegie Mellon University…
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[ESSAY] “The Unstuck City: Dorothy Tse’s City Like Water” by Luca Griseri Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon City Like Water. Dorothy Tse (author), Natascha Bruce (translator). City Like Water, Graywolf Press, 2026. 112 pgs. The novel resembles a décollage precisely because…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Singing in Hiragana: On The Chronicles of Japan” by Mario Rustan All entries in Chaon The Chronicles of Japan Matthieu Felt (translator). The Chronicles of Japan—Volume I: Age of the…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Fathers Aren’t Mountains: A Closer Look at Buddhisagar’s Karnali Blues” by Abhinav Tulachan Buddhisagar (author), Michael Hutt (translator). Karnali Blues, Penguin Random House, 2022. 422 pgs. What role does a…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Jiang Qing, Power, and Historical Vilification: María Teresa Ogliastri’s From the Diary of Madame Mao” by Jennifer Eagleton All entries in Cha on Madame Mao. María Teresa Ogliastri (author), Yvette…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “The Many-Headed Dragon: Myth, History, and The Chronicles of Japan” by Marsha McDonald All entries in Chaon The Chronicles of Japan Matthieu Felt (translator). The Chronicles of Japan—Volume I:…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Writing After Malaya: Literature, Revolution, and the Silences of History” by Elias König All things Jeremy Tiang in Cha. ❀ Hai Fan (author), Jeremy Tiang (translator). Delicious Hunger, Tilted Axis…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Weight of Change: Shuang Xuetao’s Hunter” by Seiya Tanase All things Jeremy Tiang in Cha. Shuang Xuetao (author), Jeremy Tiang (translator). Hunter, Granta Books, 2025. 288 pgs. In a…
![[REVIEW] “The Weight of Change: Shuang Xuetao’s 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟” by Seiya Tanase](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/shuang-xuetao-author-jeremy-tiang-translator.-hunter-granta-books.jpg)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Ancient Fears, Modern Horrors: Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror“ by Jennifer Eagleton Xueting Christine Ni (translator and editor), Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror, Solaris, 2024. 496 pgs.…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Ancient Fears, Modern Horrors: 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑎: 𝐴 𝐶𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟” by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/sinophagia-a-celebration-of-chinese-horror-xueting-christine-ni-translator-and-editor-solaris-2024.jpg)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Forbidden Desires of Women: Salma’s The Dark Hours of the Night” by Fathima M Salma (author), GJV Prasad (translator). The Dark Hours of the Night, Simon & Schuster, 2025.…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Colonial Gaze at the Dinner Table: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue” by Jennifer Eagleton Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (author), Lin King (translator). Taiwan Travelogue, Graywolf Press, 2024. 320 pgs. Taiwan Travelogue, winner…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Between the Rabbit and the Not-Rabbit: Yoo Heekyung’s Surrealism in Winter Night Rabbit Worries” by San Kwon Yoo Heekyung (author), Stine An (translator). Winter Night Rabbit Worries, Ugly Duckling Press,…
![[REVIEW] “Between the Rabbit and the Not-Rabbit: Yoo Heekyung’s Surrealism in 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑅𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by San Kwon](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/winter-night-rabbit-worries-1.jpg)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Pot Noodles and Power: Junko Takase’s May You Have Delicious Meals” by Anna Nguyen Junko Takase (author), Morgan Giles (translator). May You Have Delicious Meals, Penguin Random House, 2025. 133…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Every Puddle a Reflection: On Dorothy Tse’s City Like Water” by Jennifer Eagleton Click HERE to read all entries in Chaon City Like Water. Dorothy Tse (author), Natascha Bruce (translator). City Like Water, Graywolf…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “No Useless Poems: Tsering Woeser’s Greater Tibet” by Angus Stewart Tsering Woeser (author), edited and translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain with Dechen Pemba. Ocean, as Much as Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Family, Failure, and Historical Memory in Sagisawa Megumu’s The Running Boy and Other Stories” by James Kin Pong Au Sagisawa Megumu (author), Tyran Grillo (translator). The Running Boy and Other…
![[REVIEW] “Family, Failure, and Historical Memory in Sagisawa Megumu’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑜𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cornellpress.cornell.edubook9781501749896the-running-boy-and-other-stories.jpg)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Through the Time Tunnel and Written on Water: Eileen Chang Across Exile and Memory” by Jeff Tompkins ❀ Eileen Chang (author), Karen S. Kingsbury and Jie Zhang (translators). Time Tunnel, New York…
![[ESSAY] “Through the 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑇𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑙 and 𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟: Eileen Chang Across Exile and Memory” by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/eileen-chang-cha-an-asian-literary-journal-jeff-tompkins.png)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Terao Tetsuya’s Spent Bullets: Alienation and Intimacy in Silicon Valley’s Taiwanese Diaspora” by Jennifer Eagleton Terao Tetsuya (author), Kevin Wang (translator). Spent Bullets, HarperCollins, 2025. 208 pgs. Set in…
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[REVIEW] “Collecting the Dead, Preserving the Lives: On Vinu P and Niyas Kareem’s The Corpse Collector” by Kabir Deb Vinu P and Niyas Kareem (authors), Ministhy S. (translator). The Corpse Collector: A True Story. Juggernaut Books, 2023. 237 pgs. Death,…
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