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📁 Return to First Impressions📁 Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Rin Ishigaki (author), Janine Beichman (translator), and Paul Rossiter (editor), This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems, with an introduction by Janine Beichman, Isobar Press, 2022. 118 pgs. When…
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TH: With great pleasure we are presenting Matt Turner’s preface to his translation of Lu Xun’s Weeds 野草, published by Seaweed Salad Editions in 2019. The book also includes an introduction by Nick Admussen and woodblock print artwork by Monika…
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After Death by Lu Xun, translated from the Chinese into English by Matt Turner I dreamt I was dead on the road. Where I was, how I arrived there, how I died, I understood none of it. In short, by…
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Beggars by Lu Xun, translated from the Chinese into English by Matt Turner I’m walking alongside a high, peeling wall, stamping loose dust. Several others walk alone. A breeze comes up, and tree branches above the wall, with still-unwithered leaves,…
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Trembling Decay by Lu Xun, translated from the Chinese into English by Matt Turner I dreamt I was dreaming. I didn’t know where I was, before my eyes, late night, the confining interior of a small hut—and I could also…
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TH: We are pleased to present an exclusive essay by Eileen J. Cheng entitled “Lu Xun and Radical Art” and her English translation of Lu Xun’s “Tombstone Inscriptions” 墓碣文, included in Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk. “Tombstone Inscriptions”…
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📁 XI XI—CAN WE SAY: Entries 📁 Xi Xi and Jennifer Feeley
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📁 Return to First Impressions📁 Return to Cha Review of Books and Films Gish Jen, Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories, Alfred A Knopf, 2022. 272 pgs. “A beautiful country full of beautiful coats, what could that be but evil?” ponders…
![[REVIEW] “Laughter of the Displaced: A Review of Gish Jen’s 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑌𝑜𝑢, 𝑀𝑟. 𝑁𝑖𝑥𝑜𝑛” by Emma H. Zhang](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/thank-you-mr-nixon-gish-jen.png?w=1024)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “What Does It Mean to Be a Feminist in China? Reviewing Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics” by X. H. Collins Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao (editors), Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics, Syracuse…
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EDITORIAL / FEBRUARY 2010 (ISSUE 10) OTHER EDITORIALS There are two conflicting images of train travel. The first is of a train journey as romance, an unhurried and meandering trip through exotic lands—a luxurious ride eastward on the Orient Express,…
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