Category: Special
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[FICTION] “An Asian Study: January” by Anna Nguyen Anna Nguyen on “An Asian Study: January”: My forthcoming chapbook, Cruel Sentimentalism, begins with a scene from my memory of watching The Assassin, the last film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. This particular title is…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “What’s Queer about Hong Kong Comics?β by Ronny Chan Whatβs queer about comics? Iβve been grappling with this question ever since I took a stab at crafting my first queer…
![[ESSAY] “Whatβs Queer about Hong Kong Comics?” by Ronny Chan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/combsisters_008.jpg)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Theory after Academia: The Frenchmen, A Loverβs Discourse, and the Return to Everyday Life” by Anna Nguyen β Emily Eakin. The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory. Penguin, 2026. 496…
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[ESSAY] “To Belong: Impressions of Hong Kong” by Raimondo Vanitelli Photograph Β© Raimondo Vanitelli You take in the city and the city accepts you, even if momentarily. 1 The intersection feels timeless. Red cabs with white roofs honk at each other,…
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[ESSAY] βA Look Back on Anime: Memoir, Poetics, and Literary Hedonismβ by Franz Austin V. De Mesa Filipinos wave a One Piece flag as they take part in a protest against corruption at Rizal Park. Photograph: Ezra Acayan/Getty Image On 21…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Scattered Thoughts and Admiration for Her Name Upon the Strand and Other Tammythings: A Partial Retrospective” by Cyril Camus Click here to read all entries in Chaon An Extraterrestrial π»…
![[ESSAY] “Scattered Thoughts and Admiration for π»ππ ππππ ππππ π‘βπ ππ‘ππππ and Other Tammythings: A Partial Retrospective” by Cyril Camus](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/books-by-tammy-lai-miing-ho.png)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Kore-eda Does Not Direct Life and Death” by Laurehl Onyx B. Cabiles Hirokazu Kore-eda (director). After Life, 1998. 112 min. Every time I say that I am from Carmen, people…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Many Hong Kongs: Xu Xiβs Horizon Hong Kong” by Rebekah Chan ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ Cha onΒ Horizon Hong Kong. Xu Xi. Horizon Hong Kong: Selected Stories, Gaudy Boy, 2026. 288…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “How beautiful will be the feet, of the one who comes to announce my death to me”: Patrick HollandβsΒ OblivionΒ as “inchoate place on the shores of Oblivion and Mnemosyne”Β by Jason S…
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Never Finish Making Refuge: Mai-Linh Hongβs Continental Drift” by Anna Nguyen Click HERE to read all entrieson Continental Drift. Mai-Linh Hong. Continental Drift, Trio House Press, 2026. 108 pgs. There…
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[FICTION] “Three Travelling Portraits: India” by Matt Reeck Also read “No Moral at Its End”, Matt Reeck’s essayon “Three Travelling Portraits: India” Preeti (Delhi) I FLEW INTO INDIA on December ninth. I was going to stay at the Fulbright House…
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[ESSAY] “No Moral at Its End” by Matt Reeck Also read Matt Reeck’s story “Three Travelling Portraits: India”. When I wrote βThree Travelling Portraits,β I was interested in depicting some of the sexual tension that I had experienced and witnessed…
![[ESSAY] “No Moral at Its End” by Matt Reeck](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/screenshot-2026-07-10-at-19.06.38.png)
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[ESSAY] “The Internet Cafe That Died During The Pandemic” by Laurehl Onyx B. Cabiles There was a well-known internet cafΓ© in our municipality. Like all other small businesses, it was located at our public terminal since there were no complex…
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[FICTION] βThe Room After the Typhoonβ by Christian Wilken Christian Wilken on “The Room After the Typhoon”: “The Room After the Typhoon” began with a memory from my year as an exchange student in Okinawa, from 2013 to 2014: the…
![[FICTION] βThe Room After the Typhoonβ by Christian Wilken](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/christian-wilken.png)
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[INCIDENTAL] “Bear, Boar, Monkey, Mouse, and Cat” by Marsha McDonald Bear Β© Dima Solomin and Marsha McDonald I am returning this year to Japan for a month mid-November, staying near Osaka, and visiting friends, doing my creative work. I will…
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Editor’s note: Julien Pieronβs essay examines Sophie Houdartβs Ce territoire qui, comme une pulsationβ¦ (Γditions des mondes Γ faire, 2026), an ethnographic study of post-Fukushima life in TΕwa that portrays a world where catastrophe persists as an unclosed present. Through…
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