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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Floating Around in Ryu Murakami’s 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑜 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑝” by...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ryu Murakami (author), Ralph McCarthy (translator), In the Miso Soup, Kodansha International, 2003. 180 pgs. Picture a...
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[REVIEW] “Thin Line Between Observing and Stalking: Natsuko Imamura’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on The Woman in the Purple Skirt. Natsuko Imamura (author), Lucy North (translator), The...
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[REVIEW] “Mesmerising Collection—Bibhas Roy Chowdhury’s 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑜𝑢𝑠:...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Bibhas Roy Chowdhury (poet), Kiriti Sengupta (translator), Poem Continuous: Reincarnated Expressions, Hawakal Publishers,...
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[TIFF 2024] “Introduction: TIFF 2024” by Nirris Nagendrarajah
TIFF 2024 ▞ Introduction▞ Mise en abyme: On Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Film▞ A World of Pain: On Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud▞ The Inheritance: On All Shall Be Well and The Paradise of Thorns “Have you heard...
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[TIFF 2024] “𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑦𝑚𝑒: On Lou Ye’s 𝐴𝑛 𝑈𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝐹𝑖𝑙𝑚” by Nirris...
TIFF 2024 ▞ Introduction▞ Mise en abyme: On Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Film▞ A World of Pain: On Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud▞ The Inheritance: On All Shall Be Well and The Paradise of Thorns Lou Ye...
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[TIFF 2024] “A World of Pain: On Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 𝐶𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑” by Nirris...
TIFF 2024 ▞ Introduction▞ Mise en abyme: On Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Film▞ A World of Pain: On Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud▞ The Inheritance: On All Shall Bde Well and The Paradise of Thorns Kiyoshi...
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[TIFF 2024] “The Inheritance: On 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝐵𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙 and 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑠” by...
TIFF 2024 ▞ Introduction▞ Mise en abyme: On Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Film▞ A World of Pain: On Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud▞ The Inheritance: On All Shall Be Well and The Paradise of Thorns ❀ Ray Yeung...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “A Meditation on Whiteness: Han Kang’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘” by...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Han Kang (author), Deborah Smith (translator), The White Book, Portobello Books, 2016. 128 pgs. As Han Kong wrote out her list of...
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[OVERSEAS BRIDE] “Overseas Bride” by Wong Yi, translated by Jennifer Feeley
OVERSEAS BRIDE ▞ Mother Tongue Overseas▞ Overseas Bride Jennifer Feeley’s note: Written in 2020 and compiled into Wong Yi’s 2021 short story collection Ways to Love in a Crowded City, “Overseas Bride”...
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[OVERSEAS BRIDE] “Mother Tongue Overseas” by Wong Yi
OVERSEAS BRIDE ▞ Mother Tongue Overseas▞ Overseas Bride Of all the stories in Ways to Love in a Crowded City, “Overseas Bride” has received the most attention from both speakers and non-speakers of...
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[REVIEW] “Imaging the Contemporary Filipino Zombie in Carlo Ledesma’s...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Carlo Ledesma (director), Outside, 2024. 142 min. This review contains spoilers. Outside (2024), written and directed by Carlo...
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View ArticleProtected: [TIFF 2024] “Self-Studies: On Sook-Yin Lee’s 𝑃𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐼𝑡” by...
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View ArticleProtected: [TIFF 2024] “The Master and Her Muse: On Jia Zhang-ke’s 𝐶𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑦...
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{𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓} We are taking a break
We will be pausing the publication of new pieces on our websites until Monday 25 November 2024. During this period, all content on our three platforms (asiancha | chajournal | hkprotesting) will...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “A Poetic, Nocturnal Film: Payal Kapadia’s 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑊𝑒 𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒...
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on All We Imagine as Light. Payal Kapadia (director), All We Imagine as Light, 2024. 118...
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