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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βAn Artifact of a Bygone Sensibility: Satyajit Rayβs...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Satyajit Ray (director), Branches of the Tree, 1990. 130 min. Made and released in 1990, Satyajit Rayβs Branches of the Tree...
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[REVIEW] βExtreme AsiaβA Review of πΈπ₯πππππ‘πππ πΈππ π‘ π΄π πππ πΆππππππ : πΊππππ,...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMΒ Ken Provencher and Mike Dillon (editors), Exploiting East Asian Cinemas: Genre, Circulation, Reception, Bloomsbury, 2018. 234...
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[REVIEW] βOne Senses a Quiet Revolution: Eddie Tayβs π»πππ πΎπππ ππ πΆππππ‘ππ£π...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMΒ Eddie Tay, Hong Kong as Creative Practice, Palgrave, 2022. 110 pgs. The Palgrave Macmillan series that Eddie Tayβs Hong Kong as...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βIn the Tradition of Film-set Comedy Dramas: Kim...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kim Jee-woon (director),Β Cobweb, 2023. 135 min. Song Kang-ho (best known for Parasite and A Taxi Driver) in Cobweb Kim Ki-yeol...
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[REVIEW] βDespite Loss, Magic Persists: Tania De Rozarioβs π·πππππ ππ ππππ π‘ππ...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays, HarperCollins, 2024. 192 pgs. Tania De Rozarioβs Dinner on Monster Island is...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βHuman Loneliness: Jun Ichikawaβs ππππ¦ πππππ‘πππβ by Yimin...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Jun Ichikawa (director), Tony Takitani, 2004. 75 min. Tony Takitani is a film about loneliness and its unwavering cloudinessβthe...
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[REVIEW] βProcessing Love in Ricky Leeβs Novel πΉππ π΅β by Frances An
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ricky Lee (author), Noelle Q. De Jesus (translator), For B (or How Love Devastates Four out of Every Five of Us), Ateneo de...
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[REVIEW] βHumans in All States of Emotion: Liang Wern Fookβs πβπ π½ππ¦ ππ π...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Liang Wern Fook (author), Christina Ng (translator), The Joy of a Left Hand, Balestier Press, 2023. 144 pgs. When my youngest...
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[EXCLUSIVE] βOn Learning to Speak Cantoneseβ by Jeff Beyl
I blame my inability to speak Cantonese on waitresses in Chinese restaurants. My wife would say itβs all on me. To be fair, I should have kept it up. I should have practised more. You are getting...
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[EXCLUSIVE] Two New Translations of Lin Huiyin by Mike Fu
Lin Huiyin, 1904-1955 (Unknown author/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) Mike Fuβs Note: I find myself drawn to Chinese writers situated at the interstices of history, culture, and language, and whose...
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[REVIEW] βIβve Plagiarised My Life to Give You the Best of Me: Ocean Vuongβs...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother, Penguin Random House, 2022. 112 pgs. Building a foundation on the aftershocks of his motherβs...
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[REVIEW] βA Novel of Space-time: Bae Myung-hoonβs πΏππ’ππβ πππππ‘βπππ!β by Lucy...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Bae Myung-hoon (author), Stella Kim (translator), Launch Something!, Honford Star, 2023. 368 pgs. Telling us he was inspired by...
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[REVIEW] βEnigmatic Prose: Maki Kashimadaβs πππ’ππππ π‘βπ πΏπππ ππ π‘βπ π·πππβ by...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Maki Kashimada (author), Haydn Trowell (translator), Touring the Land of the Dead (and Ninety-Nine Kisses), Europa Editions,...
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[REVIEW] βOn Behalf of Those Who Werenβt Able to Survive: Kyung-Sook Shinβs...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kyung-Sook Shin (author), Anton Hur (translator), Violets, The Feminist Press, 2022. 218 pgs. Kyung-Sook Shin burst onto the...
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[EXCLUSIVE] βA New Tale from Mr Faluoβ BY Xu Nianci, TRANSLATED BY CHRIS SONG
Chris Songβs Note: Xu Nianci εΎεΏ΅ζ (1875-1908), from Changshu, Jiangsu, was a Chinese writer, editor, and translator in the late Qing dynasty who mastered English and Japanese in his early twenties and...
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[EXCLUSIVE] βHan versus Kahn: 1970β by Angus Stewart
βChina is already a great power, and whether the next three decades will be a cold or a hot war, nothing can stop her now. By the year 2001 she will be a powerful industrial socialist State.ββHan...
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A πΆβπ Announcement: January & February 2024
Banner art by βChristopher Leibow, featured in the June 2017 issue of Cha.
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[EXCLUSIVE] βLunar New Yearβs Eveβ by Liu Yichang, Translated by Chris Song
Chris Songβs Note: Liu Yichangβs εδ»₯ι¬― (1918β2018) short story βLunar New Yearβs Eveβ ι€ε€ imagines the last day of Cao Xueqin ζΉιͺθΉ (1710β1765), author ofΒ The Dream of the Red ChamberΒ η΄ ζ¨ε€’, who is believed...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βSlightly Off-kilter Worlds: Yun Ko-eunβs πππππ πππ πππβ...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yun Ko-eun (author), Lizzie Buehler (translator),Β Table for One, Columbia University Press, 2024. 280 pgs. This series of short...
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