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[EXCLUSIVE] “Riot” by Liu Yichang, Translated by Chris Song
Chris Song’s Note: Liu Yichang’s 劉以鬯 (1918–2018) short story “Riot” 騷動, set against the backdrop of the 1967 Hong Kong Riots, is a hauntingly experimental meditation on violence, urban alienation, and...
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[EXCLUSIVE] “Riding Together: 𝑃𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 and the Radical History of Queer...
Editor’s note: We are delighted to present Hongwei Bao’s essayistic film review, which blends cultural history, theory, and critique through the lens of Pillion (dir. Harry Lighton, 2025). The film is...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Life Outside the Bubble in James Albon’s 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠”...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS James Albon (author and illustrator), Love Languages, Top Shelf Productions, 2025. 176 pgs. The book begins with six pages of...
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[REVIEW] “The Trembling of Memory: Self and Society in Uno Chiyo’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Uno Chiyo (author), Rebecca Copeland (translator), The Story of a Single Woman, Pushkin Press, 2025. 106 pgs. Everything in Uno...
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[REVIEW] “Alternative Local and Translocal Hong Kong Histories in Larissa...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Larissa Lai, The Lost Century: A Novel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022. 374 pgs. Published in 2022 and penned by one of the most...
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[REVIEW] “The Mountains Speak: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑟𝑐” by Abhinav Tulachan
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Namita Gokhale (editor), The Himalayan Arc: Journeys East of South-east, HarperCollins India, 2018. 352 pgs. Namche Bazaar has...
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[REVIEW] “ ‘________________________’: Rererecapitulating Kawika Guillermo’s...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kawika Guillermo, Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir, Duke University Press, 2023. 240 pgs. Fuck ’em all. Squares on...
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[REVIEW] “Filial Piety and Farce: Negotiating Family and Queerness in Ang...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Ang Lee. Ang Lee (director), The Wedding Banquet, 1993. 108 min. Ang Lee’s 1993 film The...
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[EXCLUSIVE] “Amitav Ghosh’s Pak Kyongni Prize 2025: A Diaspora Writer’s...
Editor’s note: Ratan Bhattacharjee’s essay on Amitav Ghosh’s 2025 Pak Kyongni Prize win situates this landmark recognition within the broader terrain of world literature and ecological thought....
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[REVIEW] “The Weight of Love: Sean Wang’s 𝐷𝑖𝑑𝑖 and the Chinese American...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Sean Wang (director), Didi, 2024. 96 min. In Chinese culture, parents often address their children by their familial roles, a...
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[TIFF 2025] “She Was Screaming into Silence: A Conversation on Cai Shangjun’s...
TIFF 2025 ▞ 10. The Archivist’s Film: A Conversation on Kunsang Kyirong’s 100 Sunset▞ 9. She Was Screaming into Silence: A Conversation on Cai Shangjun’s The Sun Rises On Us All▞ 8. You Don’t Belong...
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[REVIEW] “𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑎: A Crime of Passionate Advocacy?” by Matthew Ordonez
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kevin Alambra (director), Warla, 2025. 111 min. I have just watched Warla. I cannot claim any lived experience concerning trans...
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[EXCLUSIVE] “Whose Words Win the Nobel? On Translators and the Question of...
Earlier this week, the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror,...
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[REVIEW] “Johannes Schönherr’s 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝐾𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎: Rise (and Fall?) (and...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Johannes Schönherr, North Korean Cinema. A History, McFarland, 2012. 224 pgs. My experience with the three books on North Korean...
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[REVIEW] “The Stillness Between Fire and Water: On Kiriti Sengupta’s 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Kiriti Sengupta. Kiriti Sengupta, Selected Poems, Transcendent Zero Press, 2025. 228...
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[REVIEW] “When the Jar Spills Time: Reading Mallika Bhaumik’s 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Mallika Bhaumik, When Time is a Magic Jar, Red River Press, 2025. 108 pgs. When Time is a Magic Jar by Mallika Bhaumik is like...
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[REVIEW] “The Fantasy of Wholeness through Body Horror in Hon Lai-chu’s...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Mending Bodies. ▞ Hon Lai Chu (author), Jacqueline Leung (translator), Mending Bodies,...
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[TIFF 2025] “You Don’t Belong to Anyone: A Conversation on Kalainithan...
TIFF 2025 with more forthcoming…▞ 8. You Don’t Belong to Anyone: A Conversation on Kalainithan Kalaichelvan’s Karupy▞ 7. The Paper Boy: On Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice▞ 6. Saigon Does Not Believe...
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[EXCLUSIVE] “Painting a Legacy of Optimism & Beauty” by Sadie Kaye & George...
Editor’s note: In this conversation with Sadie Kaye, 77-year-old Hong Kong artist George Tang Kwok-wing reflects on his seven decades in art in the lead-up to his participation in Fine Art Asia 2025,...
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[TIFF 2025] “The Paper Boy: On Park Chan-wook’s 𝑁𝑜 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝐶ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒” by Nirris...
TIFF 2025 with more forthcoming…▞ 8. You Don’t Belong to Anyone: A Conversation on Kalainithan Kalaichelvan’s Karupy▞ 7. The Paper Boy: On Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice▞ 6. Saigon Does Not Believe...
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