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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} The Bauhinia Project, Hong Kong Without Us: A People’s Poetry, University of Georgia Press, 2021. 120 pgs. Unusual times call for unusual ways of self-expression. At a time when civil freedoms in Hong…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sakinu Ahronglong (author), Darryl Sterk (translator), Hunter School, Honford Star, 2020. 184 pgs. Sakinu Ahronglong’s Hunter School, in a brilliant English translation by Darryl Sterk, is an engaging exploration of indigenous selfhood.…
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In “The Force of Forging Words”, a poem in Words as Grain: New & Selected Poems by premier Chinese poet Duo Duo 多多 (Yale University Press, The Cecile and Theodore Margellos World Republic of Letters series), translated by Lucas Klein,…
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📁 Visit Auditory Cortex 2021-2023to read and listen to the selected poemsas well as read the poets’ reflections. We are currently accepting submissions for the Auditory Cortex 2021-2023 special feature devoted entirely to Asian voices. Selected poems are published on…
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Co-Editor Tammy Lai-Ming Ho‘s note: Bo Schwabacher’s poem “Flat Nose” was published in the June 2016 issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. We are delighted to learn about the publication of Bo’s debut poetry collection Omma, Sea of Joy…
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{Written by Tim Murphy, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} 茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Canonical Stories, Replacement Texts: A Review of The Japanese Discovery of Chinese…
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{Written by Ari Santiago, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tahi Saihate (author) and Kalau Almony (translator), Astral Season, Beastly Season, Honford Star, 2021. 144 pgs. Contemporary young adult fiction has a…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Yū Miri (author), Morgan Giles (translator), Tokyo Ueno Station, Tilted Axis Press, 2021. 197 pgs. Though hosting the Olympic Games has often been seen as an attempt by governments to boost the…


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