Category: Susan Blumberg-Kason
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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.} Yū 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 Yū Miri’s 𝑇𝑜𝑘𝑦𝑜 𝑈𝑒𝑛𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tokyouenostation-2.jpg)
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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.} All things Leslie Shimotakahara in Cha. Leslie Shimotakahara, Red Oblivion, Dundurn Press, 2019. 304 pgs. Jill Lau and her sister Celeste rush…
![[REVIEW] “A Stirring Tribute to Hong Kong: A Review of Leslie Shimotakahara’s Red Oblivion” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/red-obivion_shimotakahara.png)
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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.} Patricia O’Sullivan, Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-1941, Blacksmith Books, 2020. 344 pgs. When the British took Hong Kong in 1841,…
![[REVIEW] “Not Hardened Criminals: A Review of Patrician O’Sullivan’s Women, Crime and the Courts” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2_women-crime-and-the-courts-hong-kong-1841-1941-800px-1.jpg)
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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.} Travis S. K. Kong, Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten 男男正傳︰香港年長男同志口述史, Hong Kong University Press, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “See How Much I Love You: Reviewing Travis S. K. Kong’s 𝑂𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑂𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐺𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/oral-histories-of-older-gay-men-in-hong-kong_travis-s-k-kong.png)
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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.} David Chaffetz, Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture in Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou, Abbreviated Press, 2019. 88 pgs. When one thinks of the…
![[REVIEW] “At the Centre of the Arts: A Review of David Chaffetz’s Three Asian Divas” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/three-asian-divas_david-chaffetz_abbreviated-press.jpg)
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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.} Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales, Painter and Patron: The Maritime Silk Road in the Códice Casanatense, Abbreviated Press, 2020. 102…
![[REVIEW] “Quite Connected Centuries Ago: Reviewing Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales’s Painter and Patron” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/painter-and-patron.jpg)
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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.} Antony Dapiran, City on Fire: the Fight for Hong Kong, Scribe, 2020. 336 pgs. In June 1987, my father and I…
![[REVIEW] “Unique Strength of Hong Kong People: A Review of Antony Dapiran’s City on Fire” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/city-on-fire-the-fight-for-hong-kong-antony-dapiran.jpg)
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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.} Juan Du, The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China’s Instant City, Harvard University Press, 2020. 384 pgs. In 2005, Juan…
![[REVIEW] “A Treasure Chest of Gems: Reading Juan Du’s The Shenzhen Experiment” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/the-shenzhen-experiment_juan-du.jpg)
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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.} Ian Johnson, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao, Pantheon, 2017. 486 pgs. When Ian Johnson first…
![[REVIEW] “Resurgence of Religion: A Review of Ian Johnson’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/the-souls-of-china-the-return-of-religion-after-mao-by-ian-johnson-1.jpg)
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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.} Jonathan Chatwin, Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China, Manchester University Press, 2019. 364 pgs. It’s difficult to think…
![[REVIEW] “History is Often Chilling: Reviewing Jonathan Chatwin’s Long Peace Street” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/long-peace-street-a-walk-in-modern-china-by-jonathan-chatwin-1.jpg)
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[Editors’ note: Go to “Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On”, which took place on 3 June 2019.] [Selected Works] [Andy’s biography] [Nelly Sachs’s “Corus of Orphans”] [Susan’s biography] [Yueran Zhang’s “The Forgotten Socialists of Tiananmen Square” | Guo Ting’s…
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 (March/April 2020) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} HK Urbex, Spatial Cemetery: A Journey Beneath the Surface of Hidden Hong Kong, Blacksmith Books, 2019. 212 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “A Keepsake: A Journey Beneath the Surface of Hidden Hong Kong” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/spatial_cemetery_800px-1.jpg)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 (March/April 2020) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Gill Shaddick, The Hong Kong Letters, Blacksmith Books, 2019. 244 pgs. [Editors’ note: Also read Jennifer Anne Eagleton’s…
![[REVIEW] “Flashback to a Time of Hope: Gill Shaddick’s The Hong Kong Letters” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the-hong-kong-letters-1.jpg)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Vigil. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink, Columbia Global Reports,…
![[Review] “Hong Kong Protest Movements: Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s Vigil” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/vigil_cha-an-asian-literary-journa.jpg)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Lindsay Varty (author), Gary Jones (photographs), Sunset Survivors: Meet the People Keeping Hong Kong’s Traditional Industries Alive, Blacksmith…
![[Review] “Sunset Survivors: Meet the People Keeping Hong Kong’s Traditional Industries Alive” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/sunset-survivors.jpg)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Mary Lynn Bracht, White Chrysanthemum, Chatto & Windus, 2018. 320 pgs. In White Chrysanthemum, Mary Lynn Bracht tells…
![[REVIEW] “War Is a Crime Against the World’s Women and Girls: Mary Lynn Bracht’s 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑦𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑢𝑚” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/white-chrysanthemum_header.jpg)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Frank Langfitt, The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China, Public Affairs,…
![[Review] “When Past and Present Merge: Frank Langfitt’s The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/the-shanghai-free-taxi.jpg)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Stephen Davies, Strong to Save: Maritime Mission in Hong Kong, from Whampoa Reach to the Mariners’ Club, City…
![[Review] “Strong to Save: Maritime Mission in Hong Kong, from Whampoa Reach to the Mariners’ Club” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/strong-to-save-maritime-mission-in-hong-kong-from-whampoa-reach-to-the-mariners-club.jpg)
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{Written by Akin Jeje, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jason Y. Ng and Susan Blumberg-Kason (editors), Hong Kong Noir, Akashic and Blacksmith Books, 2018. 256 pgs. Elegiac…
![[REVIEW] “Hong Kong Noir” by Akin Jeje](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/hong-kong-noir_cha.jpg)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ivy Ngeow, Heart of Glass, Unbound Digital, 2018. 256 pgs. I was in New York in January for…
![[Review] “Love and Longing in Macau: Ivy Ngeow’s Heart of Glass” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/heart-of-glass_asian-cha-review.jpg)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Nigel Collett, A Death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal,…
![[REVIEW] “Nigel Collett’s 𝐴 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑐𝐿𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 1980 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑆𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑙” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/a-death-in-hong-kong_cropped.jpg)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this rejoinder is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read Susan Blumberg-Kason’s review of Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions here and Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz’s response…
![[Review] “Letter to the Editors” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/little-reunionse28094cha.jpg)
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{Written by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz, this rejoinder is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Editors’ note: Read Susan Blumberg-Kason’s review of Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions here and her response to…
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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…
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Chan Chi-fat (director), Weeds on Fire (Dian wu bu), 2016. 95 min. Hong Kong…
![[REVIEW] “A Throwback to Hong Kong’s Golden Age: Chi Fat Chan’s 𝑊𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑒” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/maxresdefault-4.jpg)
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of the “Writing Hong Kong” Issue (December 2017) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films} Joe Piscatella (director), Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, 2017. 78 min. When Occupy movements sprung…
![[Review] A Leap of Faith: Joe Piscatella’s Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/joshua.jpg)