• [Header image, entitled “Kasuy”, is by Ricardo M. de Ungria.] File by genre file, they pulled into the computer station almost relentlessly. It was like being hemmed in skin to skin inside an MRT coach during the morning rush hour,…

    “The Pinoy Sensorium”—Asian Cha Issue 40 Editorial
  • {Written by Carolyn Lau, this review is part of Issue 40 (July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Alma Cruz Miclat, Soul Searchers and Dreamers: Artists’ Profiles, Maningning Miclat Art Foundation and Erehwon Centre for the…

    [Review] Looking for Idealism: Alam Cruz Miclat’s Soul Searchers and Dreamers
  • {Written by Janice Tsang, this review is part of Issue 40 (July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Monette Bichsel, Lenny Kaye Bugayong and Lily C. Fen (editors), Bending Without Breaking: Thirteen Women’s Stories of Migration…

    [Review] Bending Without Breaking: Thirteen Women’s Stories of Migration and Resilience
  • [Download Wilson’s selected text here.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] WILSON LEUNG 梁允信 is a barrister whose legal practice focuses on commercial litigation and constitutional law. Before turning to law, he studied philosophy at the London School of Economics and…

    Wilson Leung
  • [Download Akin’s selected text here.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] Canadian poet AKIN JEJE lives in Hong Kong. His works have been published and featured in Canada and Hong Kong. His poetry collection Smoked Pearl was a semi-finalist for the…

    Akin Jeje
  • [Mary’s selected poems, both by Liu Xiabao, can be found below.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] 〈卡夫卡:我對你說 —- 給酷愛卡夫卡的妻〉 卡夫卡,我对你说 在透明的蓝天下 想起你 肯定是一种亵渎 但我分明在蓝天下 在半个苍白的月亮中 看见了你 你那双受虐狂的眼睛 瞳人的正中 晃动着你爹的皮带 皮带的后面是一张咀嚼的大嘴 而更深处是漆黑、寒冷的阳台 你惊恐于 自己的瘦弱和父亲的伟岸 如同耗子惊恐于猫的敏捷 于是,你的笔 变成一棵老树上 最早干枯却 最后折断的枝杈 历尽疯狂的沧桑 复归于平静…

    Mary Shuk-han Wong
  • [Nashua’s selected poem can be found below.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] Your Lifelong Prisoner by Liu Xiaobo, written from prison [via.] To Xia My dear, I’ll never give up the struggle for freedom from the oppressors’ jail, but I’ll be…

    Nashua Gallagher
  • [Download Kai-cheung’s selected text here.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] Dung Kai-cheung 董啟章 was born in Hong Kong in 1967 and received his BA and MPhil in comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong. He has won several literary…

    Dung Kai-cheung
  • [Patrick’s selected text can be found below.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] from Liu Xiaobo’s last statement, “I Have No Enemy”: . “Hatred can rot away at a person’s intelligence and conscience. Enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a…

    Patrick Poon
  • [Susan’s poem can be found below.]   [Return to Table of Contents.] Liu Xiao Bo has Left China by Susan Lavender 柳安霞 Adam’s rib: she remained part of him, To the last, even when the light was so dim. She…

    Susan Lavender