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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.} Travis S. K. Kong, Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten 男男正傳︰香港年長男同志口述史, Hong Kong University Press, 2019.…
![[REVIEW] “See How Much I Love You: Reviewing Travis S. K. Kong’s 𝑂𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑂𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐺𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/oral-histories-of-older-gay-men-in-hong-kong_travis-s-k-kong.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Joshua Bird, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} John Fitzgerald and Hon-ming Yip (editors), Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific 1850-1949 華僑慈善與環太平洋區的廣東人世界 1850–1949, Hong Kong University Press, 2020.…
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Co-Editor Tammy Lai-Ming Ho‘s note: Jonathan Stalling’s “Evolving from Embryo and Changing the Bones: Translating the Sonorous” 奪胎換骨: 譯詩存音, re-published below, first appeared in Issue 22 (December 2013) of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, themed “Ancient Asia” and guest edited by Lucas Klein, who…
![[FEATURE] “Evolving from Embryo and Changing the Bones: Translating the Sonorous” by Jonathan Stalling](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/invisible-poem-du-fu-welcome-rain-on-a-spring-night-150x300cm-acrylic-on-canvas-2012.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Vania Tabanelli, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} JinJin Xu, There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife, Radix Media, 2020. 35 pgs. JinJin Xu is a writer and filmmaker…
![[REVIEW] “A Laboratory of Fine Imagery: Reviewing JinJin Xu’s There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife” by Vania Tabanelli](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/there-is-still-singing-in-the-afterlife-by-jinjin-xu-1.jpg?w=1024)
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Translation Editor Lucas Klein‘s note: I started CipherJournal in 2003 to be an online venue for creative literary translation and writing about literary translation. At the end of 2004 I received a submission from Don Mee Choi of translations of poetry by…
![[FEATURE] “Translationese” by Don Mee Choi and Tony Barnstone](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/brice-marden-etchings-for-rexroth-17.png?w=1024)
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{Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Too Too Too Too, Math Paper Press, 2018. 100 pgs. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho’s second book of poems, Too Too Too Too, is a book of tensions—between the styles of poetry…
![[REVIEW] “Too Too Too Too Is Not Too Much” by Lucas Klein](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/too-too-too-too-by-tammy-lai-ming-ho-math-paper-press.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Elaine Chiew, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Hongwei Bao, Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature And Visual Culture Under Postsocialism, Routledge (London & New York, 2020), 213 pgs. Shaping…
![[REVIEW] “Hongwei Bao’s Queer China Under Neoliberalism with Socialist Characteristics” by Elaine Chiew](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/queer-china-lesbian-and-gay-literature-and-visual-culture-under-postsocialism-1.png?w=1024)
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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.} Ping Zhu, Zhuoyi Wang, and Jason McGrath (editors), Maoist Laughter (毛時代的笑), Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 232 pgs. Accounts of communist terror—for example,…
![[REVIEW] “Psychological infiltration in Maoist Laughter” by Frances An](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/maoist-laughter_hong-kong-university-press.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Anya Goncharova, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Jennifer Wong, Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl, Bitter Melon 苦瓜, 2019. 20 pgs. Life is a series of memory fragments that piece…
![[REVIEW] “In-between the Inbetween: Jennifer Wong’s A Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl” by Anya Goncharova](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/diary-of-a-miu-miu-salesgirl-by-jennifer-wong.jpeg?w=1024)
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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.} David Chaffetz, Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture in Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou, Abbreviated Press, 2019. 88 pgs. When one thinks of the…
![[REVIEW] “At the Centre of the Arts: A Review of David Chaffetz’s Three Asian Divas” by Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/three-asian-divas_david-chaffetz_abbreviated-press.jpg?w=1024)
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