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[Diary of the Absurd Life in 1997: All Entries] TH: Diary of the Absurd Life in 1997, in 28 sections, was written originally in Chinese by Mary Wong and serialised in Ming Pao 明報 in 1997. The pieces, translated into English by…
![[Diary of the Absurd Life in 1997] “The Vegetable Lifestyle” by Mary Wong, Translated by Chris Song](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/like.png?w=873)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Wong Kar-wai (director), Happy Together, 1997. 97 min. “I had no regrets till I met you. Now my regrets could kill me.” And then Lai Yiu-Fai (Tony Leung) runs away…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “They Cannot Be Happy Together, They Cannot Be Happy Apart: Wong Kar-wai’s 𝐻𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑇𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟” by e rathke](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/happy-together_cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Stephen To, Eastern Approaches to Western Film: Asian Reception and Aesthetics in Cinema, Bloomsbury, 2019. 304 pgs. What does it mean to appreciate or read a Western film from…
![[REVIEW] “A Noteworthy Project: Stephen Teo’s 𝐸𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐹𝑖𝑙𝑚” by Joel Gn](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/eastern-approaches-to-western-films.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Dina Nayeri, Refuge, Riverhead Books, 2017. 336 pgs. Home does not always represent comfort or safety. Often, it becomes a place from where you need to flee. I am…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “In Perpetual Transit: Dina Nayeri’s 𝑅𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑔𝑒” by Fathima M](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/refuge-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Michael Berry, Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary: Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 247 pgs. When Michael Berry took on the project of translating Fang Fang’s…
![[REVIEW] “An Ode to Translation: Michael Berry’s 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑊𝑢ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑦” by Emma Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/translation-disinformation-and-wuhan-diary-anatomy-of-a-transpacific-cyber-campaign-1.png?w=1024)
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Translated from the Chinese original, also available below, by the author. Drawing by the author. The English translation is edited with help from David Morgan. George Lo, a watercolour teacher, provided the author advice on her painting. “Huh! So you think…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Big Sister Ping” by Jasmine Tong](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/sister-ping.png?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Davy Chou (director), Return to Seoul, 2022. 119 min. There’s an ambiguity inherent in the title of Davy Chou’s film Return to Seoul. At first sight, it seems to…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Cultural Orphanage: Davy Chou’s 𝑅𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑆𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑙” by Oliver Farry](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/return-to-seoul3.webp?w=1024)
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TH: “Like” 讚 is a short story collected in Mary Wong’s Surviving Central 中環人, which won the “25th Secondary School Students’ Best Ten Books Award.” Chandler strolled into the sleek modern Haneda Airport, wearing a casual ensemble. He handed over his passport…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS R.F. Kuang, Yellowface, William Morrow, 2023. 336 pgs. The title of the novel and its bright yellow cover suggests that the subject matter might having something to do with…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Can An Author Write About Anything? Reading R.F. Kuang’s 𝑌𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒” by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/yellowface_wide-a73252995366ad95b7c30c94329e78559d919765-s1400-c100.jpg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Matt Alt, Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World, Crown Publishing, 2020. 384 pages. The subtitle of the book is enough to entice anyone browsing a bookstore…
![[REVIEW] “We’re All Dreaming of Japan: Matt Alt’s 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛’𝑠 𝑃𝑜𝑝 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑” by Mario Rustan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/pure-invention.png?w=1024)
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