Category: reviews of translations
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} The Bauhinia Project, Hong Kong Without Us: A Peopleβs 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 π»πππ πΎπππ πππ‘βππ’π‘ ππ ” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/hong-kong-without-us.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sakinu Ahronglong (author), Darryl Sterk (translator), Hunter School, Honford Star, 2020. 184 pgs. Sakinu Ahronglongβs Hunter School, in a brilliant English translation by Darryl Sterk, is an engaging exploration of indigenous selfhood.…
![[REVIEW] “An Unapologetic, Proud Celebration of Paiwan Identity: Sakinu Ahronglong’s π»π’ππ‘ππ ππβπππ” by Serena De Marchi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/hunter-school_sakinu-ahronglong-1.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Frances An, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Yeng Pway Ngon (author), Jeremy Tiang (translator), Costume, Balestier Press, 2020. 269 pgs. βLike so many of his characters, he [Yeng Pway Ngon] was…
![[REVIEW] βCantonese Opera as Collective Imagination: A Review of Yeng Pway Ngonβs πΆππ π‘π’ππβ by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/yeng-pway-ngon_costume_jeremy-tiang.png?w=1024)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Layered Spaces: A Review of Chi Ta-wei’sΒ The Membranes” by Serena De Marchi Chi Ta-wei (author), Ari Larissa Heinrich (translator),Β The Membranes, Columbia University Press, 2021. 168 pgs. Chi Ta-weiβs classic of…
![[REVIEW] “Layered Spaces: A Review of Chi Ta-wei’sΒ πβπ πππππππππ ” by Serena De Marchi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/layered-spaces-a-review-of-chi-ta-weis-the-membranes-1.png?w=1024)
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TH: All the poems in Ho Fuk Yan’s latest poetry collection, Love in the Time of the Coronavirus ζε¨ηη«ζ, were written in response to the pandemic as experienced, observed, interpreted, and reimagined by the poet in 2020. The poems are…
![[FEATURE] “Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Postscript and Ten Poems” by Ho Fuk Yan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/love-in-the-time-of-coronavirus.jpeg?w=1024)
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{Written by James Au Kin-Pong, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Minae Mizumura (author), Juliet Winters Carpenter (translator; in collaboration with the author), An I-Novel, Columbia University Press, 2021. 325 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Pursuing Her Japanese Identity: A Review of Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel” by James Au Kin-Pong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/an-i-novel-minae-mizumura-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Chase Michael Greenfield, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Quan Manh Ha and Joseph Babcock (translators and editors), Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its…
![[REVIEW] βWhat We Never Carried Back: A Review of Vietnamese Stories in ππ‘βππ πππππ ” by Chase Michael Greenfield](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/other-moons-vietnamese-short-stories.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} YΕ« Miri (author) and Morgan Giles (translator), Tokyo Ueno Station, Tilted Axis Press, 2019 (first published in 2014). 197 pgs. Kazu Mori is…
![[REVIEW] “Critical Social Commentary of Modern Japan: A Review of YΕ« Miri’s ππππ¦π ππππ ππ‘ππ‘πππ” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tokyouenostation-2.jpg?w=762)
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{Written by Elaine Chiew, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Chia Joo Ming (Author), Sim Wai Chew (Translator), Exile or Pursuit, Balestier Press, 2019. 306 pgs. Exile or Pursuit employs the genre…
![[REVIEW] βBildungsroman of a Singaporean Ordinary Joe: A Review of Chia Joo Mingβs πΈπ₯πππ ππ ππ’ππ π’ππ‘” by Elaine Chiew](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/exile-or-pursuit.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written byΒ Marc de Faoite, this review is part of Issue 46 ofΒ Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (author) and Arunava Sinha (translator), The Yogini, Tilted Axis Press, 2019. 208 pgs. The Yogini is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyayβs third…
![[REVIEW] “Parallel and Intertwining Interpretations: Reviewing Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay’s πβπ ππππππ” by Marc de Faoite](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/the-yogini.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Not Written Words. Xi Xi (author), Jennifer Feeley (translator), Not Written Words, Zephyr Press and MCCM Creations, 2016. 152 pgs. Charles Bernstein in his essay in…
![[REVIEW] “Seeing Sounds and Tasting Words: Xi Xi’s πππ‘ ππππ‘π‘ππ πππππ ” by Jennifer Anne Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/not-written-words-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Ang Kia Yee, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Che Qianzi (author), Yunte Huang (translator), No Poetry: Selected Poems of Che Qianzi, Polymorph Editions, 2019. 177 pgs. The poems in No…
![[REVIEW] “Loving Anarchy: A Review of No Poetry” by Ang Kia Yee](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/no-poetry.jpg?w=707)
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{Written by Yu MΓΌller, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Che Qianzi (author), Yunte Huang (translator), No Poetry: Selected Poems of Che Qianzi, Polymorph Editions, 2019. 177 pgs. Che Qianziβs bilingual poetry…
![[REVIEW] “Look at the Silence You See: A Review of Che Qianzi’s ππ ππππ‘π𦔠by Yu MΓΌller](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/no-poetry-selected-poems-of-che-qianzi.png?w=1024)
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πRETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Strange Beasts. Yan Ge (author) and Jeremy Tiang (translator), Strange Beasts of China, Tilted Axis Press, 2020. 314 pgs. Strange Beasts of China begins with a…
![[REVIEW] “Asymmetric and Unexpected: A Review of ππ‘πππππ π΅πππ π‘π ππ πΆβπππ” by Ari Santiago](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/strange-beasts-of-china-1.png?w=1024)
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πRETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Strange Beasts. Yan Ge (author) and Jeremy Tiang (translator), Strange Beasts of China, Tilted Axis Press, 2020. 314 pgs. Each of the stories in Yan Geβs…
![[REVIEW] “The Unconcealed Rebellion, Cynicism, Bravery and Romanticism of Being Painfully Young: Yan Ge’s ππ‘πππππ π΅πππ π‘π ππ πΆβπππ” by Jacqueline Leung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/strange-beasts-of-china.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Ash Dean, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Lan Lan (author), Fiona Sze-Lorrain (translator), Canyon in the Body, Zephyr Press, 2014. 208 pgs. Carrying, unzipping, stuffing, rezipping, Stowingβ I am…
![[REVIEW] “Fine Lines of Meteorology: Lan Lan’s πΆπππ¦ππ ππ π‘βπ π΅ππ𦔠by Ash Dean](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/lan-lan_canyon-in-the-body_fiona-sze-lorrain.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Brian Haman, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Dai Congrong and Jin Li (editors), The Book of Shanghai: A City in Short Fiction, Comma Press, 2020. 150 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “An Ever-present Labyrinth: Reviewing The Book of Shanghai” by Brian Haman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/book-of-shanghai-a-city-in-short-fiction.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Cyril Camus, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Zou Tao (author), Timothy Gouldthorp (translator), The Fox Spirit of Bluestone Mountain, Camphor Press, 2020. 228 pgs. HΓΊlΓ yuΓ‘n quΓ‘n zhuΓ n…
![[REVIEW] “πβπ πΉππ₯ ππππππ‘ ππ π΅ππ’ππ π‘πππ πππ’ππ‘πππ: Female Force, Bridges from Zhiguai to Novel, and a Royal Rumble of Myth” by Cyril Camus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the-fox-spirit-of-bluestone-mountain-zou-tao-translated-by-timothy-gouldthorp.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by David W. Landrum, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wu Sheng (author), John Balcom (translator). My Village: Selected Poems 1972-2014, Zephyr Press, 2020. 188 pgs. Poets ancient and modern,…
![[REVIEW] “Land, Plants, Weather, and People: The Poetry of Wu Sheng” by David W. Landrum](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/wu-sheng_my-village-selected-poems.jpg?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ya Shi (author), Nick Admussen (translator), Floral Mutter, Jintian Series of Contemporary Chinese Poetry, Zephyr Press, 2020. 136 pgs.βPlease believe that the rays of light at nightfall have damp / antennae,β urges…
![[REVIEW] “On a Haunted Train: Reading Ya Shiβs πΉπππππ ππ’π‘π‘ππ in Nick Admussenβs Translation” by Joanna Krenz](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/floral-mutter_ya-shi_nick-admussen.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Cyril Camus, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Oobmab (author), Arthur Meursault and Akira (translators), The Flock of Ba-Hui and Other Stories, Camphor Press, 2020. 234 pgs. The…
![[REVIEW] “The Flock of Ba-Hui: Lovecraftβs New England Nightmares Meet the Mythical Geography of China” by Cyril Camus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/the-flock-of-ba-hui-and-other-stories-1.jpg?w=959)
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{Written by David W. Landrum, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Translated and with commentary by Frederik H. Green. Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of…
![[REVIEW] “Not Paranormal Thrillers: Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu” by David W. Landrum](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/book-talk-and-other-stories-by-xu-xu-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Phill Provance, this review is part of Issue 46 (March/April 2020) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Chris Song (author), Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Lucas Klein and Chris Song (translators), Rifle and Lily, Musical Stone Publishing,…
![[REVIEW] “Found in Translations: Chris Song’s Rifle and Lily” by Phill Provance](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/rifle-and-lily_cha-an-asian-literary-journal_chris-song.jpg?w=911)
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{Written by Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Bei Dao (author), Ted Huters and Feng-ying Ming (translators), Blue House, Zephyr Press, 2000. 262 pgs. First published…
![[Review] “Extended Musings: Bei Dao’s Blue House” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/bei-dao_blue-house.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Danielle Karanjeet J. de Feo-Giet, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Song Lin (author), Jami Proctor Xu (translator), Sunday Sparrows, Jintian Series of Contemporary Chinese Poetry,…
![[REVIEW] “A Poet of Contrast in New Translation: Song Lin’s Sunday Sparrows in Jami Proctor Xu’s Translation” by Danielle Karanjeet J. de Feo-Giet](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/sunday-sparrows_cha.png?w=857)
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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 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 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 Michael Ka-chi Cheuk, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Gao Xingjian (author), Gilbert C. F. Fong (translator), Wandering Mind and Metaphysical Thoughts, The Chinese University Press,…
![[REVIEW] “The Hedgehog and the Worm: Gao Xingjian’s πππππππππ ππππ πππ πππ‘ππβπ¦π ππππ πβππ’πβπ‘π ” by Michael Ka-chi Cheuk](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gao-xingjian.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by DragoΕ Ilca, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sheng Keyi (author), Shelly Bryant (translator), Wild Fruit, Penguin, 2018. 350 pgs. Wild Fruit is split into three…
![[REVIEW] “Building It Up So That It May Fall Again: Sheng Keyi’s ππππ πΉππ’ππ‘” by DragoΕ Ilca](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/wild-fruit-sheng-keyi-review.jpg?w=1024)
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