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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Adaptation and the Illusion of Home: Manjushree Thapa’s Seasons of Flight” by Abhinav Tulachan Manjushree Thapa, Seasons of Flight, Penguin India, 2011. 226 pgs. “The flap of a butterfly’s wings…
![[REVIEW] “Adaptation and the Illusion of Home: Manjushree Thapa’s 𝑆𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐹𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡” by Abhinav Tulachan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/manjushree-thapa-seasons-of-flight-1.jpg?w=881)
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Doua Moua and Nirris Nagendrarajah Editor’s note: In this interview, Nirris Nagendrarajah talks to screenwriter and actor Doua Moua; they discuss The Harvest, a tender exploration of a Hmong family navigating illness, identity, and intergenerational conflict. Inspired by his own experiences…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “Love Is Time: A Conversation on 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡” by NIRRIS NAGENDRARAJAH and Doua Moua”](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/the-harvest_carley-soo.png?w=1024)
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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 Social Room. Andrew Barker, Social Room: Modern Shakespearean Sonnets (Book Three, Sonnets 204—305), Mycroft Publishers, 2025. 186 pgs. “So choose your enemies, I’ve chosen…
![[REVIEW] “Between Heckle & Hush: The Public & Private Voices of a Poet” by Michael Ingham](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/andrew-barker-cha-an-asian-literary-journal.png?w=1024)
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[REVIEW] “Word-Kissed Truths: The Earned Simplicity of Andrew Barker’s Sonnets” by Jason Eng Hun Lee
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Social Room. Andrew Barker, Social Room: Modern Shakespearean Sonnets (Book Three, Sonnets 204—305), Mycroft Publishers, 2025. 186 pgs. Named after the bar where the…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Also read “Feature: Lu Xun” in Cha. Lu Xun (author), Eileen J. Cheng (translator), Theodore Huters (editor), Wild Grass & Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk, Harvard University Press,…
![[REVIEW] “One of the Greatest Writers, Full Stop: Lu Xun’s 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑠 & 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑠 𝐺𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝐷𝑢𝑠𝑘” by Robert Postings](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/wild-grass-and-morning-blossoms-gathered-at-dusk-harvard-university-press-2022.-272-pgs.jpg?w=955)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kim Ki-duk (director), The Isle, 2000. 90 min. Some films are like waves that gently lap against the shores of our memories; others, however, jolt us by revealing…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑠𝑙𝑒 at 25: Kim Ki Duk’s Blooming Poem on the Island of Solitude” by G.A. Gowtham](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/f_1_the_isle_01c5e5da4c.jpeg?w=1024)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Masaki Kobayashi (director), Kwaidan, 1964. 175 min. Ma—a profound Japanese concept that encapsulates the essence of stillness. The term refers to the empty spaces in between, a fleeting suspension…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “𝐾𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑛: Horror and Folklore as an Art Form” by Tushi Gogoi](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/kwaidan.jpg?w=570)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Derek Currie, When ‘Jesus’ Came to Hong Kong: The Remarkable Story of the First European Football Star in Asia, Blacksmith Books, 2023. 404 pgs. This is my second…
![[REVIEW] “Jesus’ Pub Tales: Derek Currie’s 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 ‘𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠’ 𝐶𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔” by Mario Rustan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/when-jesus-came-to-hong-kong.jpg?w=962)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know, Ballantine Books, 2022. 352 pgs. Addressing trauma is never an easy undertaking—especially when it is the survivor herself who must confront it. Stephanie…
![[REVIEW] “The Invisible Pain of Abuse and its Diagnosis: Stephanie Foo’s 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑀𝑦 𝐵𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤” by Fathima M](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/stephanie-foo-what-my-bones-know-1.jpg?w=987)
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[EXCLUSIVE] “I Was Rapt in The Theatre of Skies: A Conversation:” by Sudeep Sen and Jhilam Chattaraj
Sudeep Sen and Jhilam Chattaraj Jhilam Chattaraj’s note: I shall always remember that moist, sunlit afternoon. The venue—a lush tropical garden—was adorned with local blooms and talismanic touches, including multicoloured paper lanterns that swayed gently in the breeze, as though singing…
![[EXCLUSIVE] “I Was Rapt in The Theatre of Skies: A Conversation:” by Sudeep Sen and Jhilam Chattaraj](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/header.jpg?w=979)
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