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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Riverhead Books, 2017. 288 pgs. In almost every literary discussion I have had with fellow readers, whenever South Asian literature has been mentioned, Kamila Shamsie’s…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “The Politics of Love: Kamila Shamsie’s 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑒” by Fathima M](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/home-fire-a-novel-by-kamila-shamsie.jpg?w=993)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Hiro Arikawa (author), Philip Gabriel (translator), The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Berkley, 2018. 277 pgs. Hiro Arikawa’s The Travelling Cat Chronicles, translated by Philip Gabriel, is a heart-warming book that…
![[REVIEW] “Out Beyond the Horizon: Hiro Arikawa’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶𝑎𝑡 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠” by Hui-Hua Lu](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/screenshot-2024-08-28-at-15.31.04.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Nicole Tarulevicz, Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural History of Food in Singapore, University of Illinois Press, 2014. 224 pgs. Anyone who has been to Singapore or Malaysia,…
![[REVIEW] “The 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑎𝑛 Republic—Nicole Tarulevicz’s 𝐸𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐾𝑤𝑎𝑦: 𝐴 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐹𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑒” by Mario Rustan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/eating-her-curries-and-kway-a-cultural-history-of-food-in-singapore-university-of-illinois-press-1.jpg?w=500)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Thomas William Whyke and Melissa Shani Brown (authors), Queering Gender, Sexuality, and Becoming-Human in Qing Dynasty Zhiguai: Querying the Strange Tales, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 246 pgs. The title of this…
![[REVIEW] “Between Queering and Querying: Thomas William Whyke and Melissa Shani Brown’s 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑆𝑒𝑥𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔-𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑄𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐷𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑦 𝑍ℎ𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑖” by Jonathan Ferguson](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/queering-gender-sexuality-and-becoming-human-in-qing-dynasty-zhiguai-querying-the-strange-tales-1.jpg?w=827)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS San Lin Tun, Yangon Days: A Collection of Urban Short Stories, Penguin Random House SEA, 2024. 240 pgs. If the Yangon you used to think of as so full…
![[REVIEW] “Our Yangon: San Lin Tun’s 𝑌𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑜𝑛 𝐷𝑎𝑦𝑠” by Peixuan Xie](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/yangon-days-a-collection-of-urban-short-stories.jpg?w=977)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yao-Chang Chen (author), Pao-Fang Hsu, Ian Maxwell, and Tung-Jung Chen (translators), Puppet Flower: A Novel of 1867 Formosa. Columbia University Press, 2023, 298 pgs. The American servicemen are in…
![[REVIEW] “Send in the Marines: Yao-Chang Chen’s 𝑃𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑡 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟”by Jeff Tompkins](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/puppet-flower-a-novel-of-1867-formosa.jpg?w=972)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kangyu Garam (director), Lucky, Apartment, 2024. 96 min. This review may contain spoilers. What would hate look and feel like if it took on a sensory form? South Korean…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “A Queer Shape of Smell: Kangyu Garam’s 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑦, 𝐴𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡” by Soo Ryon Yoon](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/lucky-apartment.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Mao Suit. Antonia Finnane, How to Make a Mao Suit: Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949–1976, Cambridge University Press, 2023. 386 pgs. I have used…
![[REVIEW] “Impeccably Written: Antonia Finnane’s 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑀𝑎𝑜 𝑆𝑢𝑖𝑡” by Paul Bevan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/how-to-make-a-mao-suit-clothing-the-people-of-communist-china.jpg?w=1000)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Banana Yoshimoto (author), Michael Emmerich (translator), Asleep, Grove Atlantic, 2001. 171 pgs. If you’ve read Banana Yoshimoto’s celebrated novella Kitchen, there won’t be much surprise in Asleep for…
![[REVIEW] “The Art of Retelling, Benign Ghosts and 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑜 𝑛𝑜 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒 in Banana Yoshimoto’s 𝐴𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝” by Elnura Huseynova](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/asleep_banana-yoshimoto.jpg?w=1024)
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