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[REVIEW] βWhen Cosmopolitanism Traverses Across the Screen Beyond...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Felicia Chan, Cosmopolitan Cinema: Cross-Cultural Encounters in East Asian Film, Bloomsbury, 2017. 224 pgs. Cosmopolitanism...
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[REVIEW] βHow Bizarre To Be Human Amongst Other Humans: Hiromi Kawakamiβs...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Hiromi Kawakami (author), Ted Goossen (translator), People from My Neighbourhood, Granta Books, 2021. 96 pgs. βWhy did you come...
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[EXCLUSIVE] βIn Beijing: 12.26-1.10β by Matt Turner
Iβd nervously sweated through the last 23 hours, certain Iβd be escorted to a ventilation-less detention room to wait for a flight back to the US. And now I faced a Border Control officer who looked...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βOne Foot in the Past, One Foot in the Future: Hayao and...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS GorΕ Miyazaki (director), From Up on Poppy Hill, 2011. 91 min. Yokohama is somewhat in the shadow of neighbouring Tokyo but itβs...
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[EXCLUSIVE] βDonβt Call emβ Choppersβ by Jeff BeylΒ
Via. Faai-jee. Thatβs how to say, chopsticks, in Cantonese. Thatβs what my wife taught me. When we were first married, she taught me many Cantonese words for everyday things. One day, just kidding...
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[REVIEW] βThe Losers of Chinaβs Sexual Revolution: Tsering Yangkyiβs πβπ...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ The Flowers of Lhasa. Tsering Yangkyi (author), Christopher Peacock (translator), The...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βFour Women Migrant Workers: TSERING YANGKYIβS πβπ...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ The Flowers of Lhasa. Tsering Yangkyi (author), Christopher Peacock (translator),Β The...
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[REVIEW] βA Great Cry for Help: Leta Hong Fincherβs πΏπππ‘ππ£ππ πππππβ by Marika...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Leta Hong Fincher, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender InequalityΒ in China (10th Anniversary Edition), Bloomsbury, 2023. 280...
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[EXCLUSIVE] βKung Fu Is a Store of Infinite Fun: Reading Jin Yong in...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Jin Yong, aka Louis Cha Leung-yung (1924β2018). Picture via. β Jin Yong (author), Shelly Bryant, Gigi Chang, and Anna Holmwood...
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[REVIEW] βNo Better Place to Start: FuchsiaΒ Dunlopβs πΌππ£ππ‘ππ‘πππ π‘π π π΅ππππ’ππ‘β...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food, Particular Books, 2023, 480 pgs. China is a big countryβbut...
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[REVIEW] βStardom Before Netflix: A Review of πΈππ π‘ π΄π πππ πΉπππ ππ‘πππ β by MARIO...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMΒ Leung Wing-Fai and Andy Willis (editors), East Asian Film Stars, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 236 pages. Youβre a Cantonese...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βHistory As Written by the Successful Underdogs: Jing...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMΒ Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters, Riverhead Books, 2023. 336 pgs. The earliest known empire is the Sumerian. It is also the first...
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[REVIEW] βThe Banality That Starts It All: Dorothy Tseβs ππ€πππ ββ by Luca Griseri
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMΒ ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ Owlish. Dorothy Tse (author), Natascha Bruce (translator),Β Owlish, Fitzcarraldo...
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[EXCLUSIVE] βTwenty Years Since Losing the Cityβ by Lawrence Kwok-ling Pun,...
Chris Songβs Note:Β Lawrence Kwok-ling Punβs ζ½ει short story βTwenty Years Since Losing the Cityβ ε€±εδΊεεΉ΄ is a sequelΒ toΒ Wong Bik-wanβs ι»η’§ι² canonical short story βLosing the Cityβ, which gruesomely...
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[REVIEW] βChinaβs Most Important Woman Writer of The Last Half-century: A...
πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMΒ Wang Anyi (author), Todd Foley (translator), I Love Bill and Other Stories, Foreword by Xudong Zhang, Cornell University Press,...
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[FEATURE] βGoodnight, Akira Toriyamaβ by e rathke
Akira Toriyama (1955-2024) I remember racing home from school to watch Dragonball Z. I remember blank pages that I filled with Goku and Vegeta and Trunks. I remember trying to draw those trousers...
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[REVIEW] βTo Experience A World That No Longer Exists: Chβoe MyΕngikβs...
Β RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMΒ Chβoe MyΕngik (author), Janet Poole (translator), Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories, Columbia University Press, 2024. 278...
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[REVIEW] βWhile Weβre Still Connected: Sasha Chukβs πΉππ¦ ππ π‘π π‘βπ ππππβ by...
Β RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Sasha Chuk (director), Fly Me to the Moon δ½ι‘δΊΊι·δΉ , 2023. 112 min. A story fraught with the problems and pain of a broken family,...
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[REVIEW] βExtraordinarily ordinary?: Hiromi Kawakamiβs ππππππ ππππ ππ¦...
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[SHΕGUN] βBold Directorial Choices: πβπππ’π (1980)β by e rathke
There have been two adaptations of James Clavellβs 1975 novel ShΕgunβa 1980 miniseries and a new one from this year, currently showing on Hulu and Disney+. This short essay focuses on the 1980...
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