Category: Taiwan
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Colonial Gaze at the Dinner Table: YΓ‘ng ShuΔng-zΗ’s Taiwan Travelogue” by Jennifer Eagleton YΓ‘ng ShuΔng-zΗ (author), Lin King (translator). Taiwan Travelogue, Graywolf Press, 2024. 320 pgs. Taiwan Travelogue, winner…
![[REVIEW] “The Colonial Gaze at the Dinner Table: YΓ‘ng ShuΔng-zΗ’s ππππ€ππ ππππ£πππππ’π” by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/yang-shuang-zi-author-lin-king-translator.-taiwan-travelogue-.jpg?w=1000)
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS Editor’s note: Ryan Ho Kilpatrick reflects on Reorienting Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific, a volume that interrogates Taiwanβs asserted maritime identity. The contributors expose tensions between political rhetoric, historical experience,…
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πππππππ‘πππ ππππ€ππ Amid a Sea of Contradictions” by Ryan Ho Kilpatrick](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/reorientating-taiwan-ocean-selfhood-and-the-pacific.jpg?w=1024)
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Translator’s note: Chi Ta-weiβs η΄ε€§ε short story, βBeneath His Eyes, in Your Palm, a Red, Red Rose Is About to Bloomβ δ»ηηΌεΊ, δ½ ηζεΏ, ε³ε°ηΆ»ζΎδΈζ΅η΄ η«η° (1994), is a queer, prophetic, postmodern, posthuman, drug-fuelled cyberpunk pastiche, a descent into a stygian labyrinth…
![[TRANSLATION] βBeneath His Eyes, In Your Palm, a Red Rose is About to Bloomβ by Chi Ta-wei, translated by Nathaniel Isaacson](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/e-08897.jpg?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Anru Lee, Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory and Placemaking in Post-industrial Taiwan, University of Hawaiβi Press, 2023. 246 pgs. Anru Lee first learned of the 25 Maiden Ladiesβ Tomb…
![[REVIEW] βFrom Spirits to Statues: Commemorating Women Workers in Anru Leeβs π»ππ’ππ‘ππ ππππππππ‘πππ β by Elsa Mathews](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/haunted-modernities-gender-memory-and-placemaking-in-postindustrial-taiwan.jpg?w=994)
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