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[REVIEW] “Worlds of Translation, Translated Worlds: 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑚 Special Issue...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Hangping Xu and Yunte Huang (special issue editors), Translatability and Transmediality: Chinese Poetry in/and the World, V20: N1...
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[REVIEW] “To Write Properly: Hwang Bo-reum’s 𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑚-𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑔...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Hwang Bo-reum (author), Shanna Tan (translator), Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. 320 pgs....
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[REVIEW] “The Absence that Haunts the City—A Review of𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒: 𝐴...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Making Space. Nicolette Wong (editor), Making Space: A Collection of Writing and Art,...
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[EXCLUSIVE] “Basque Cheesecake in the Indian Himalayas” by Aileen Blaney
TH: Aileen Blaney explores the gentrification of the Himalayan village in the new work-from-anywhere post-pandemic dispensation. In this piece, the coffee shop is used as a device for depicting the...
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[EXCLUSIVE] “Tall” by Guru T Ladakhi
TH: In this very short tale, Guru T Ladakhi presents a defiant woman proud of ownership of her body and choices, unafraid of the gossip and speculation of others. Artwork by Anastasi Holubchyk. I know...
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[REVIEW] “Is Hong Kong Expired after the National Security Law?—A Review of...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ho-fung Hung, City on the Edge: Hong Kong under China Rule, Cambridge University Press, 2022. 316 pgs. “Pessimism of the...
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[EXCLUSIVE] “The Girl Without a Face” by Wong King Fai, Translated by Chris Song
TH: Wong King Fai’s short story “The Girl Without a Face” 無相女 was published in the Hong Kong Literary 香港文學 magazine in 2009 and is included in the author’s collection Hong Kong: Mock City 香港：重複的城市. In...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “A Bittersweet Love for a Tempestuous City: Chan Kwan Ee...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Chan Kwan Ee Tom, Listen, Atmosphere Press, 2023. Inspired by Allen Ginsberg’s seminal masterpiece Howl, Chan Kwan Ee Tom’s...
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[REVIEW] “The Extraordinary Story of Bernardine Szold Fritz—A Review of Susan...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Susan Blumberg-Kason, Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of The Doyenne of Old China, Post Hill Press, 2023. 275 pgs....
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[REVIEW] “Walking on Thin Ice—Mimi Okabe’s 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑎, 𝑀𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑦: 𝑇ℎ𝑒...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Mimi Okabe, Manga, Murder, and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. 216 pgs. Has...
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[REVIEW] “Formidable Exploration of the Symbolism of Food in...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Wenying Xu, Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature, University of Hawai’i Press, 2007. 208 pgs. Food has...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Aesthetics of Obsolescence: Dung Kai-cheung’s 𝐴 𝐶𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Dung Kai-cheung (author), Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson (translators), A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On,...
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[EXCLUSIVE] “A Space for ‘Music'” by Matt Turner
TH: In this essay, Matt Turner meditates on a couple of recent concerts he attended at Dream House and Task, both in New York. In late July this year, I attended a performance at Dream House in lower...
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[REVIEW] “More Social-science than Fiction: Bae Myung-hoon’s 𝑇𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟” by Lucy...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Bae Myung-hoon (author), Sung Ryu (translator), Tower, Honford Star, 2021. 262 pgs. In Tower, Bae Myung-Hoon unveils a...
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[EXCLUSIVE] “Christmas Shopping” BY MARY WONG, Translated by Chris Song
TH: We are pleased to present Chris Song’s English translation of Mary Wong’s short story “Christmas Shopping” 聖誕購物, which is collected in Surviving Central 中環人. The story won the 25th Secondary...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Reading on Slow Quiet Days” by Joefel Bolo
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS I have had this feeling of being quiet and alone recently, since graduating from university, with the pressure of looking for a...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “The Liminality of Being: Anthony Chen’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Anthony Chen (director), Breaking the Ice, 2023. 97 min. Arresting visuals, an immersive soundtrack, and interesting ideas do not...
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[REVIEW] “All the Subtle References: Dorothy Tse’s 𝑂𝑤𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ” by Ilaria Maria Sala
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Owlish. Dorothy Tse (author), Natascha Bruce (translator), Owlish, Fitzcarraldo...
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[REVIEW] “Vibrant Being in Mary Jean Chan’s 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐹𝑒𝑎𝑟” by Kika W. L. Van Robay
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Bright Fear. Mary Jean Chan, Bright Fear, Faber & Faber, 2023. 72 pgs. I first...
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[EXCLUSIVE] “Project Babel” by Li Kotomi, Translated by Kendall Heitzman
Kendall Heitzman’s introduction: “Project Babel” was published in Japanese in the Tokyo Shimbun on 26 November 2022. It first appeared in English in my translation at a reading on 22 September 2023 at...
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