Category: reviews of translations
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{Written by Maialen Marin-Lacarta, this review is part of Issue 42 (December 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Aili Mu (translator and editor) with Mike Smith (contributor), Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories: A Parallel Text, Columbia University…
![[REVIEW] “Spreading the Genre: A review of πΆπππ‘ππππππππ¦ πΆβππππ π πβπππ‘-πβπππ‘ ππ‘πππππ ” by Maialen Marin-Lacarta](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cha_review_contemporary-chinese-short-short-stories.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read a response from the translators of Little Reunions, Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz here and…
![[REVIEW] “On the New Translation of Eileen Chang’s πΏππ‘π‘ππ π
ππ’πππππ ” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/little-reunionse28094cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Ronald Torrance, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Su Tong (author), Jane Weizhen Pan (translator) and Martin Merz (translator), Petulia’s Rouge Tin, Penguin, 2018. 106 pgs.…
![[Review] “Preserving the Unspoken Past: Su Tong’s Petulia’s Rouge Tin” by Ronald Torrance](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/9780734399496.jpg?w=400)
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} β Toh Hsien Min (author) and Jacques Rancourt (translator), Dans Quel Sens Tombent Les Feuilles, Editions Caracteres, 2016. 134…
![[REVIEW] “A Tame Paradise: Dans Quel Sens Tombent Les Feuilles and From Walden to Woodlands” by Kate Rogers](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cha-review_kate-rogers.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 πΌ ππππ‘ π‘π πΊπ π»ππποΌεΈ°γγγ” 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 Brian Haman, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mohamed Latiff Mohamed (author), Nazry Bahrawi (translator), Lost Nostalgia, Ethos Books, 2017. 200 pgs. One of modernity’s defining…
![[REVIEW] “There Is Much that His Narratives Can Offer the World: Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s πΏππ π‘ πππ π‘πππππ” by Brian Haman](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/lost_big.jpg?w=660)
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{Written by Ilaria Maria Sala, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wu He (author), Michael Berry (translator), Remains of Life, Columbia University Press, 2017. 352 pgs. Remains of…
![[REVIEW] “Remembering the Musha Incident: Wu He’s π
ππππππ ππ πΏπππ” by Ilaria Maria Sala](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/remains.jpg?w=350)
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{Written by Janice Tsang, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Liu Waitong (author), Enoch Yee-lok Tam, Desmond Sham, Audrey Heijins, Chan Lai-kuen and Cao…
![[REVIEW] “Capturing Disappearing Hong Kong: Liu Waitong’s πππππππππ π»πππ πΎπππ π€ππ‘β ππππππ‘π ” by Janice Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/wandering-hong-kong.png?w=642)
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{Written by Vivian Tang, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Dung Kai-Cheung (author), Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson (translators), Cantonese Love Stories, Penguin, 2017.…
![[REVIEW] “A City of Strangers: Dung Kai-Cheung’s πΆπππ‘ππππ π πΏππ£π ππ‘πππππ ” by Vivian Tang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/cantonese-love-stories1.jpg?w=400)
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{Written by Douglas Kerr, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Chan Ho-Kei (author), Jeremy Tiang (translator), The Borrowed, Head of Zeus, 2016. 496 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “A History of Hong Kong in Six Cases: Chan Ho-Kei’s πβπ π΅πππππ€ππ” by Douglas Kerr](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/the-borrowed-chan-ho-kei.jpg?w=600)
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ByΒ Sam Nallen Copley Β RyΕ«nosuke Akutagawa Probably no one who attempts suicideβ¦ is fully aware of all his motives, which are usually too complex. At least in my case it is prompted by a vague sense of anxiety, a vague…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “RyΕ«nosuke Akutagawaβs Last Letter” by Sam Nallen Copley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/leolibrary-quote-rashomon-ryunosuke-akutagawa-1080x640-1.jpeg?w=1024)
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