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[REVIEW] “Trapped in The Uncanny Valley: Hiroko Oyamada’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑒” by Maria...
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[REVIEW] “The Forgotten Hunters: John Saeki’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑇𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔”...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS John Saeki, The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True Stories of Big Cats that Stalked Britain’s Chinese Colony (with pen-and-ink...
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[REVIEW] “Living On: Xi Xi’s 𝑀𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡” by Susan Blumberg-Kason
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “To Be Watched Over and Over Again—Ryo Takebayashi’s...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ryo Takebayashi (director), Mondays: See You “This” Week!, 2022. 102 min. Ryo Takebayashi’s time-loop film Mondays: See You “This”...
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[REVIEW] “Poetics of Cinema Under Jesters’ Spirits: Qiu Jiongjiong’s 𝐴 𝑁𝑒𝑤...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Qiu Jiongjiong (director), A New Old Play, 2021. 179 min. After watching this film you will briefly be aphasic, with equal amounts...
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[REVIEW] “A Sobering Read: Mahasweta Devi’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑀𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟” by Jack...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Mahasweta Devi (author), Arunava Sinha (translator), The Murderer’s Mother, Seagull Books, 2023. 248 pgs. The Murderer’s Mother...
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[REVIEW] “Feasting on Futuristic Melancholia: Sayaka Murata’s Life 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Life Ceremony. Sayaka Murata (author), Ginny Tapley Takemori (translator), Life Ceremony,...
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[REVIEW] “An Aesthetic Exploration of the Trials and Tribulations of a Woman:...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kumar Shahani (director) Maya Darpan, 1972. 107 min. Kumar Shahani (1940-2024), one of the doyens of Indian parallel cinema breathed...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Love In Translation: Decoding Jopy Arnaldo’s 𝐺𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔” by...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Jopy Arnaldo (director), Gitling, 2023. 105 min. The world’s noise fades into the background when you’re with the right person....
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[REVIEW] “Obsessed: On Natsuko Imamura’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑆𝑘𝑖𝑟𝑡” by...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Natsuko Imamura (author), Lucy North (translator), The Woman in the Purple Skirt, Penguin Books, 2021. 224 pgs. Once, I remember,...
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “A Domain of Sickness: Lee Sol-hui’s 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒” by...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Lee Sol-hui (director), Greenhouse, 2022. 100 min. Lee Sol-hui’s film Greenhouse is a domain of sickness. There is illness...
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[REVIEW] “Rather Demolish Ten Temples Than Destroy One Marriage: Tiantian...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Tiantian Zheng, Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China,...
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[REVIEW] “On the Primal and Final Mystery: Her Mind Unravels in Thuận’s...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Thuận (author), Nguyễn An Lý (translator), Chinatown, New Directions, 2022. 160 pgs. A train in the Paris Metro is brought to a...
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[REVIEW] “Amah, You’re My First Place: Pat Boonnitipat’s 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Pat Boonnitipat (director), How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, 2024. 127 min. This review may contain spoilers. Dare I say...
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[REVIEW] “Remembering Through Memoir: Alexandra A. Chan’s 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Alexandra A. Chan, In the Garden Behind the Moon, Flashpoint, 2024. 432 pgs. On paper, Alexandra A. Chan seems to have it all. A...
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[REVIEW] “A Dreamlike Book: Natsume Sōseki’s 𝑇𝑒𝑛 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇ℎ𝑒...
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[EXCLUSIVE] “He Wrote On” by Jeff Beyl
It is difficult, at best, to take a leisurely walk in Hong Kong. The streets are congested with cars and trucks and buses, and the sidewalks are jam-packed with people. It is said that Hong Kong is a...
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[REVIEW] “Keeping You Captivated: Kyung-sook Shin’s 𝑉𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑠” by Dorina Tataran
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Violets. Kyung-sook Shin (author), Anton Hur (translator), Violets, The Feminist Press,...
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[REVIEW] “Wondrous Challenges of Translation: Eric Reinders’s 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑒𝑛...
RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Eric Reinders, Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation, Bloomsbury, 2024. 200 pgs. The availability of Chinese...
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[REVIEW] “Reading Natsume Sōseki as a Historian of Twentieth-Century East...
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