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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Leslie Shimotakahara, Red Oblivion, Dundurn Press, 2019. 304 pgs. Jill Lau and her sister Celeste rush to visit their elderly father after…
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{Written by Marc de Faoite, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (author) and Arunava Sinha (translator), The Yogini, Tilted Axis Press, 2019. 208 pgs. The Yogini is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay’s third…
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Carlos Rojas (special issue editor), Method as Method, V16: N2 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Duke University Press, 2019. Method here is used as a “prism” to tease out our underlying assumptions…
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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 Not Written Words. Xi Xi (author), Jennifer Feeley (translator), Not Written Words, Zephyr Press and MCCM Creations, 2016. 152 pgs. Charles Bernstein in his essay in…
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Download Joshua Ip’sSeven PoemsHERE. . The genesis of these translations was an intellectual property snafu. In 2020, I threw myself into a project to translate 30 poems—by a pioneer Singapore poet who wrote exclusively in classical Chinese forms—into formal English…
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{Written by Ang Kia Yee, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Che Qianzi (author), Yunte Huang (translator), No Poetry: Selected Poems of Che Qianzi, Polymorph Editions, 2019. 177 pgs. The poems in No…
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{Written by Frances An, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sebastian Veg (editor), Popular Memories of the Mao Era: From Critical Debate to Reassessing History 毛時代的民間記憶:從批判性辯論到歷史的再評價, Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 256 pgs.…
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{Written by Susan Blumberg-Kason, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Patricia O’Sullivan, Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-1941, Blacksmith Books, 2020. 344 pgs. When the British took Hong Kong in 1841,…
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{Written by Yu Müller, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Che Qianzi (author), Yunte Huang (translator), No Poetry: Selected Poems of Che Qianzi, Polymorph Editions, 2019. 177 pgs. Che Qianzi’s bilingual poetry…
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Jon Ng, Hong Kong: Growing Pains, Proverse Press, 2020. 74 pgs. MY CURATION OF PRIVATE THOUGHTS I was trying to grow up when I started to put this collection together. It’s funny to think of now but, as I hit…


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