• Who did and do the Chinese blame for the Opium Wars?

    from Bernard Porter’s LRB article on  Julia Lovell’s The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China: When it came to explaining their humiliations, the Chinese tended not to blame the invaders so much as themselves, or their Manchu…

  • Cha "Encountering" Poetry Contest

    [Click the above image to enlarge] UPDATE: 20 long-listed poems were announced on 4 February 2012. [Link] UPDATE: 12 short-listed poems were announced on 10 February 2012. [Link] UPDATE: 7 finalists were announced on 15 February 2012. [Link] Description: This…

  • Yip Wai Shan wins the first prize in SCMP Portraits of Women Competition

    – Congratulations to Cha contributor Yip Wai Shan! Her photograph entitled “Girlfriends, please don’t pee on my bed” won the first prize in SCMP (South China Morning Post) Portraits of Women Competition. All the winning photographs are now on display…

  • Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is TEN years old!

    – “You might also guess that I’ve never really been one for milestones. For me, the word is only one letter removed from millstones.”-Toh Hsien Min – Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (est. 2001), the first online independent literary periodical based in Singapore, turns 10! Remarkable!…

  • Xi Chuan at the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong | 10-13 November

    Xi Chuan, whose poetry was published in “The China Issue” of Cha (translated from the Chinese by Lucas Klein), will be reading at the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong (November 10-13, 2011). Xi Chuan will be joining nine other Chinese-language…

    Xi Chuan at the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong | 10-13 November

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Swimming Sheila in Psychopomp” (previously published in Metazen) is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––

  • Guest editors wanted

    – We are currently looking for prose (fiction and creative non-fiction) guest editors for 2012 and 2013 to read the submissions with us.– The guest editor position is open to all past and current contributors regardless of genres. We usually read around…

  • Alistair Noon’s Out of the Cave

    – Alistair Noon’s Out of the Cave was published by Calder Wood Press in September 2011. You can read some poems from the collection on Peony Moon. – Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem “The…

  • Alistair Noon in Ink Sweat & Tears

    – An extract from Alistair Noon’s ‘Would Passenger Sapho Proceed to Gate 31’ is now published in Ink Sweat & Tears. Read it here. – Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem “The Expat Partner: An…

  • Luisa A. Igloria in Poemeleon

    – Luisa A. Igloria’s poems “What I Don’t Tell My Children about My Hometown”, “Last Words” and “Measures” are now published in Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry. Read them here. – Luisa A. Igloria’s poetry was published in issue #2 and issue #8 of Cha. ––