• World Voices: Eddie Tay | 11 August 2011

    Links:The Arts HouseFacebook event page “ Is there space for poetry in the mental life of people in Singapore and Hong Kong? How does one survive and thrive in these two ultra-modern, pragmatic and cosmopolitan cities and stay true to…

  • What exactly is that place we call ‘bed’?

    In Alias Grace (1996), Margaret Atwood answers from a woman’s perspective: [Y]ou may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night’s sleep. But it isn’t so for…

  • The China Issue is REALLY HERE.

    www.asiancha.com  We are very happy to announce that “The China Issue” is now live. We would like to thank our guest editor Mai Mang (Yibing Huang) for reading the poetry and prose submissions with us as well as curating the…

    The China Issue is REALLY HERE.

  • The China Issue is HERE.

    www.asiancha.com  We are very happy to announce that “The China Issue” is now live. We would like to thank our guest editor Mai Mang (Yibing Huang) for reading the poetry and prose submissions with us as well as curating the…

    The China Issue is HERE.

  • The Chinese Curse

    originally posted here THE CHINESE CURSE “May you live in interesting times.” Thus goes the first part of the famous Chinese curse, or at least the curse commonly attributed to the Chinese. Like all good curses at first sight it…

  • China: What It Is, What It Could Be

    originally posted here   CHINA: WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT COULD BE . In an interview in 2008, I was asked whether my loyalty lay with “Hong Kong” or “China.” I remember finding the question easy to answer: “Hong Kong,…

    China: What It Is, What It Could Be

  • Branch Magazine, The Private Parts Issue, is now live

    – The Private Parts Issue of Branch Magazine is now live. You can read and enjoy the extremely beautiful new issue here. Branch is co-founded and co-edited by Gillian Sze and Roberutsu. Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. Roberutsu’s artwork was published…

  • Cha contributors in Asymptote

    The July issue of  Asymptote is now live. This is the publication’s biggest and boldest issue to date. It features a new Upaniṣad translation, master of the lyric novel Shen Congwen, “Ghalib Redux”, poems by Tomaž Šalamun, the philosophy of…

  • Nicholas Y. B. Wong in qarrtsiluni

    – Nicholas Y. B. Wong’s poem “They Say the Spring Breeze Has Come” is now published in qarrtsiluni. Read it here. – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –

  • Gillian Sze in Room

    –Gillian Sze’s new poems “Gypsy Moth” and “To the Photographer in the Countryside” are now published in Room. Learn more here.–Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile.––