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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “How Modern China Woke Up: A review of Martin Albers’s Britain, France, West Germany and the People’s Republic of China, 1969-1982” by Mario Rustan Martin Albers, Britain, France, West Germany…
![[REVIEW] “How Modern China Woke Up: A review of Martin Albers’s 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒’𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎, 1969–1982” by Mario Rustan](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/britain-france-west-germany-1.jpg?w=820)
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “Who’s Afraid of Not Conjoined Bodies?: Hon Lai Chu’s Mending Bodies” by Tin Yuet Tam Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Mending Bodies. Hon Lai Chu (author), Jacqueline Leung (translator), Mending Bodies,…
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[ESSAY] “Wong Bar Wine: A Cinematic Oasis in Hanoi” by Zalman S. Davis On a calm Monday evening, I found myself at 14B Hai Bà Trưng in Hanoi, drawn to a cosy corner on Tràng Tiền that radiated a warm, amber…
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📁 Visit Write to Power to read the selected poems and the poets’ reflections on their poems. These days, in many places, many things can’t be said directly. Can we say them in poetry? Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Hsiao-wen Cheng, Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty China, University of Washington Press, 2021. 244 pgs. I did not find this book an easy read,…
![[REVIEW] “Women without Men: Rethinking Sexuality & Normalcy in Imperial China—Hsiao-wen Cheng’s 𝐷𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑” by Jennifer Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/divine-demonic-and-disordered-women-without-men-in-song-dynasty-china-hardcover-e28093-january-31-2021-by-hsiao-wen-cheng-author.png?w=600)
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between, Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2016, 256 pgs. You walk into a memoir anticipating something deeply personal. You expect to encounter…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “In Their Words, We Find Ourselves: Reading Lin Yi-Han’s Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise” by Hana Kim Yi-Han Lin (author), Jenna Tang (translator), Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise, HarperVia, 2024. 272 pgs.…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “From Silence to Sound: Kaori Lai’s Microhistorical Poetics of the White Terror” by Serena De Marchi Kaori Lai (author), Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt (translators), Portraits in White, Columbia…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Quan Manh Ha and Quynh H. Vo (translators), Longings: Contemporary Fiction by Vietnamese Women Writers, Texas Tech University Press, 2024. 260 pgs. Vietnamese literature in English translation is…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Jerrold Tarog (director), Quezon, 2025. 135 min. “Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are…
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