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[EXCLUSIVE] “Seeing the Unseen: Lessons from Tai Po” by Stuart Lau Wai-shing, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho “What is essential is invisible to the eye.”Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (1943). Spoken by the fox during his lesson to the…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Seeing the Unseen: Lessons from Tai Po” by Stuart Lau Wai-shing, translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/hk-fire-3-ap-gmh-251125_1764163221138_hpmain.jpg?w=1024)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “How Modern China Woke Up: A review of Martin Albers’s Britain, France, West Germany and the People’s Republic of China, 1969-1982” by Mario Rustan Martin Albers, Britain, France, West Germany…
![[REVIEW] “How Modern China Woke Up: A review of Martin Albers’s 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒’𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎, 1969–1982” by Mario Rustan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/britain-france-west-germany-1.jpg?w=820)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Hsiao-wen Cheng, Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty China, University of Washington Press, 2021. 244 pgs. I did not find this book an easy read,…
![[REVIEW] “Women without Men: Rethinking Sexuality & Normalcy in Imperial China—Hsiao-wen Cheng’s 𝐷𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑” by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/divine-demonic-and-disordered-women-without-men-in-song-dynasty-china-hardcover-e28093-january-31-2021-by-hsiao-wen-cheng-author.png?w=600)
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Editor’s note: In this conversation with Sadie Kaye, 77-year-old Hong Kong artist George Tang Kwok-wing reflects on his seven decades in art in the lead-up to his participation in Fine Art Asia 2025, where he unveiled a monumental new large-scale…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Painting a Legacy of Optimism & Beauty” by Sadie Kaye & George Tang Kwok-wing](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/george-tang-peonies.webp?w=600)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier, Epigram Books, 2021. 496 pgs. In late March 1996, an intruder—tracked by millions around the globe—raced across the sky. This interloper, discovered by an…
![[REVIEW] “Daryl Qilin Yam’s 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟, 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟: A Red Pill of Metafiction” by Jason Low](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/daryl-qilin-yam-lovelier-lonelier-1-copy.jpg?w=692)
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[EXCLUSIVE] “I Was Rapt in The Theatre of Skies: A Conversation:” by Sudeep Sen and Jhilam Chattaraj
Sudeep Sen and Jhilam Chattaraj Jhilam Chattaraj’s note: I shall always remember that moist, sunlit afternoon. The venue—a lush tropical garden—was adorned with local blooms and talismanic touches, including multicoloured paper lanterns that swayed gently in the breeze, as though singing…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “I Was Rapt in The Theatre of Skies: A Conversation:” by Sudeep Sen and Jhilam Chattaraj](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/header.jpg?w=979)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS For Gab Angeles, who lent me the book. Natsume Sōseki (author), Meredith McKinney (translator), Kokoro, Penguin Classics, 2010. 256 pgs. Kokoro is the final novel written by Natsume Sōseki.…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “The Virtue of Melancholy: Reading Natsume Sōseki’s 𝐾𝑜𝑘𝑜𝑟𝑜” by Ramzzi Fariñas](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/kokoro.png?w=1024)
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© Mavis Cheung MONG KOK 忙/忘 mong4 kok—we forgot why we are in such a mongstate that we are okayeveryday we dash for thecash. was it our 夢 mung6? you don’t even have a kokthis is not mung kok,mong kok,…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Two Poems: Mong Kok and Miasma” by Mavis Cheung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/mong-kok-1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Kayla Cadenas, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kawika Guillermo, All Flowers Bloom, Westphalia Press, 2020. 356 pgs. What can a love story become in the middle of…
![[REVIEW] “The Mortality of Undying Love: Kawika Guillermo’s All Flowers Bloom” by Kayla Cadenas](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/all-flowers-bloom_westphalia-press-1.png?w=795)
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{Written by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} ❀ Eileen R. Tabios, Amnesia: Somebody’s Memoir, Black Radish Books, 2016. 122 pgs. ❀ Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, The…
![[REVIEW] “Memories, Stories: Eileen R Tabios’s 𝐴𝑚𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑎: 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦’𝑠 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑟 and Lawrence Lacambra Ypil’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑠” by Alana Leilani Teves Cabrera-Narciso](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/experiment-amnesia.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by David W. Landrum, this review is part of Issue 45 (January/February 2020) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wawa, Anna and Anna, Finishing Line Press, 2018. 26 pgs. The Hong Kong poet Wawa (who has…
![[Review] “Dualisms: Wawa’s Anna and Anna” by David W. Landrum](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/anna-and-anna-1.jpg?w=649)
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{Written by Cameron L. White, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} “City Issue: Hong Kong”, edited by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, World Literature Today, Volume 93 No. 2, University…
![[Review] “Seeing a City Through Words: The Hong Kong Issue of 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑇𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦” by Cameron L. White](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/hong-kong_world-literature-today.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 44 (June/July 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Kai-Fu Lee, AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. 272 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “Techno Dystopia: Ka-Fu Lee’s AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ai-super-powers.jpg?w=1024)
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This piece will be included in Issue 45 (August 2019) of Cha. “Writing speculative fictions allows me to free myself from boring daily routines,” said British writer Natasha Pulley, one of the invited authors at the 2019 International Writers’ Workshop…
![[Report] “Speculative Fictions: More than Speculation” by Jerry Pun](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sci-fi-as-social-critique.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Pinky Lui Chung-Man, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Marshall Moore, Inhospitable, Camphor Press, 2018. 302 pgs. Ghosts are real in Marshall Moore’s Inhospitable. Either as…
![[Review] “Ghosts in the Flesh: Marshall Moore’s Inhospitable” by Pinky Lui Chung-Man](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/inhospitable_moore.jpg?w=1024)
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Due to unforeseen reasons, the “Writing Vietnam” issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, originally scheduled for publication in September 2019, will be postponed to 2021. In light of this change, below is our new publication plan for the rest…
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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for Issue 45, rescheduled for publication in August 2019. Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here. Deadline: 31…
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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Konstandinos Mahoney, Tutti Frutti, SPM Publications, 2018. 78 pgs. Tutti Frutti is a wonderful collection of condensed, original,…
![[REVIEW] “The Love Songs of Dino Mahoney” by Kate Rogers](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tutti-frutti_cha.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Emma Zhang, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Ha Jin, The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai, Patheon, 2019. 320 pgs. From the pen of…
![[REVIEW] “Man of Letters: Ha Jin’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝐼𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙: 𝐴 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑖 𝐵𝑎𝑖” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/the-banished-immortal.jpg?w=1024)
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{This piece is part of the special section on Meng Lang in Issue 44 (June 2019) of Cha.} My friend Meng Lang passed away in Hong Kong on 12 December 2018 .The fact that I heard the news on my birthday (16…
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This Cha and WIMLER Foundation Hong Kong Ltd. event was part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership with the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation and supported by the English Departments at CUHK and HKBU, and it was conducted on Sunday 11…
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 42 (January 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wendy Chen, Unearthings, Tavern Books, 2018. 104 pgs. In her debut poetry collection Unearthings, Wendy Chen muses on…
![[Review] “Reading History Slowly: Wendy Chen’s Unearthings” by Michael Tsang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Unearthings-1.jpg?w=386)
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◤ INTRODUCTION ◢ Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, Michael O’Sullivan, Eddie Tay, Michael Tsang ◤ ARTICLES ◢ ◍ Principles of the Hong Kong Kitchen Shorthand Winnie Cheung and Lian-Hee Wee◍ From Neon Signs to Skyscrapers: The Spectacle of Fluidity in Hong Kong’s Post/modern Cityscape Shao Yi…
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{Written by Samantha Toh, this review is part of Issue 41 (September 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Cheryl Julia Lee, We Were Always Eating Expired Things, Math Paper Press, 2014. 52 pgs. I picked up…
![[REVIEW] “The Potential of the Poet: Cheryl Julia Lee’s 𝑊𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐴𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝐸𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠” by Samantha Toh](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/we-were-always-eating-expired-things.jpg?w=1024)
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