Academic, poet, translator, & editor of CHA, Voice & Verse, HK Studies, & The Shanghai Literary Review. Junior Fellow @ HK Academy of the Humanities. Resident @ IWP Fall 2023. Email: t@asiancha.com | Originally from Hong Kong, I'm currently based in Paris.
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๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ: ๐ง๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐. The submission window closes before midnight (23:59 on Friday 5 September 2025) wherever you are. Poets and translators across the world are invited to send us their work on ๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ for consideration. tinyurl.com/RainstormCALL
Forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press, @asiancha.bsky.social contributor Wayne Wong's ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐ก๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ reconsiders Hong Kong martial arts cinema as a philosophical ecology where conflict & tranquility intersect. โง More on ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฟ๐๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐น๐ผ๐ด๐: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-martial...
Kashiwa Sato, a designerโbut what is design today if not ideology made visible? His Uniqlo logo, red square, pseudo-flag, is not merely brandingโit is the fetish object of late capitalist minimalism. A simplicity that screams: โI am Japanese, but also global!โ This is not design. This is signifier.
Mani Rao, one of the contributors to the first issue of @asiancha.bsky.social, released in November 2007 (to coincide with the birthday of one of its founding coeditors), is in Hong Kong launching her latest collection, ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, from HarperCollins India, 2025). www.manirao.com/home ใใใใใ
๐๐๐@asiancha.bsky.social๐ฅ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ชโKeziah Cho on ๐๐ ๐๐ (2000), dir. Edward Yang, on the occasion of the film's 25th Anniversary. "He offers a worldview at once plaintive and strangely motivating: there is no final tragedy, nor any consoling happy ending..." โง ๐๐๐๐: chajournal.blog/2025/09/02/y... ใใใใใ
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆโJeremiah Dutch writes about ๐โ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐? (1996), dir. Masayuki Sou: "His film is less about the male gaze than it is about suburban ennui, repression, and the longing for self-expression." โง ๐๐๐๐: chajournal.blog/2025/09/01/s... ใใใใใ
๐ ๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โLoritta Chan on Chen Qiufanโs ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ (@torbooks.bsky.social 2019),trans. Ken Liu: "According to an account by Chen, these vivid descriptions were inspired by his own experience visiting Guiyu.Chen grew up in Shantou..." โง ๐๐๐๐: chajournal.blog/2025/04/08/w...
Two stories on perils of teaching in Asia: Learning Mandarin as a teacher in Hong Kong and instructing liberal English literature in Malaysia. Great review @myetcetera.bsky.social
"Her cubicle becomes a chamber of obsessive self-scrutiny, where reflection no longer stabilises identity but fractures it." @myetcetera.bsky.social reviews "Lake Like a Mirror" and "Tongueless." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tongues-tied-mirrors-shattered/
Great to have a new essay out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social in which the talented poet @myetcetera.bsky.social (who is nothing if not versatile, also excelling as an editor and reviewer, to name just two other skills) assesses two novels set in schools in Asia lareviewofbooks.org/article/tong...
FRANZ, a cinematic dreamwork on the life of Kafka, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Agnieszka Holland, the film offers an introspective portrait of Kafka, weaving together moments of surrealism and historical texture. โง tiff.net/films/franz
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆโDanica QP on ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐ (2020), dir. Akiko Ohku: "Her female protagonists are frequently characterised by a combination of traits: single,eccentric, introverted, quirky, introspective, socially anxious,inexperienced..." โง chajournal.blog/2025/08/31/h...
If you want a novel, thereโs this one, by Amanda Lee Koe: Delayed Rays of a Star. On Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wing and Leni Riefenstahl.
๐งต To commemorate the 120th anniversary of Anna May Wongโs birth, @asiancha.bsky.social invites reviews of four recent booksโthat together explore her groundbreaking career, cultural legacy, and challenges to race, gender, and representation in performance.If interested, please email t@asiancha.com.
๐ ๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โLucas Klein reviews Lรกszlรณ Krasznahorkai's ๐ท๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ค ๐๐๐๐๐๐กโ ๐กโ๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ (@seagullbooks.bsky.social, 2016), trans. Ottilie Mulzet: "A non-fiction tale of a trip through China in 2002, meeting with Chinese poets ..." โง chajournal.blog/2025/08/31/d...
I remember clearly how bright and sunny, how blue the sky was in Wellington when we moved there from 5 years in Singapore and 4 years in Hong Kong in 1970 I had never been so cold or had to squint my eyes closed against the brightness so Every day was one where I could run and climb - no snakes!
๐ ๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โJeff Tompkins on Eliot Weinbergerโs ๐โ๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข ๐น๐ข: "In all of Weinbergerโs various guisesโcritic and essayist, editor, translator, and now, poetโhis work demonstrates an exemplary commitment to cultural transmission[.]" โง ๐๐๐๐: chajournal.blog/2024/05/17/t...
(3) "In this poem, I imagined world-weary immigrants witnessing climate change finally bring them a familiar comfort: seasonal monsoons. Yet by the time it arrives, they themselves have changed too much to adapt back." How interesting! Submission guidelines: tinyurl.com/RainstormCALL
(2) "... until recentlyโof specialist Cantonese ingredients, the limited availability of Chinese vegetable seeds, the fact that their daughters wished to marry non-Chinese partners, and, of course, the different climate."
(1) Just accepted a poem by Renee Liang, "weather report". The poet wrote: "My parents migrated to Auckland, New Zealand, from Hong Kong in the 1970s. Over the decades, they have adapted to many things: a less academically focused education system the absenceโ[...]" www.facebook.com/VoiceAndVers...
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐โSubash Singh Parajuli on Arun Budhathokiโs ๐ด๐๐ ๐ผ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐: "The poems trace the poetโs journey from the snowy landscapes of New Brunswick, Canada, to the high mountains of Nepal, where he spent his childhood." โง chajournal.blog/2025/08/29/c...
A while back I wrote about Booker Prize longlisted author Tash Aw's 2019 novel We, the Survivors, for the ever-excellent @asiancha.bsky.social
(4) "โbut for now she is content, & returns to sleep. Like the rain, we have intruded upon the womanโs nocturnal rest, and thus we are denied further knowledge of her." HK's Voice & Verse is accepting submissions from poets/translators worldwide on RAINSTORM until 5 Sept: tinyurl.com/RainstormCALL
(3) "We are never wholly alone when we are online, and there is a quiet irony in the Internet offering a quintessential emblem of feminine inconvenience as an improvised remedy for a leaking ceiling. More water lies in her immediate futureโ& perhaps more blood, tooโ" www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
(2) "... a recurring disturbance within her most intimate spaceโher own living quarters. The scene is brief, yet rendered with striking candour. We sense her irritation, entirely understandable; her resort to sanitary pads to contain the problem suggests that she herself likely menstruates."
(1) Glad to have accepted a new piece for the RAINSTORM feature in Hong Kong's Voice & Verse (submissions of poems & translations are welcome until 5 Sept. 2025). Ana, the translator: "Fang Miaohongโs 'Month of Rainstorms' presents a young woman confronting..." www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Congratulations @nadmussen.bsky.social!
๐ ๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ @marcdefaoite.bsky.social on Tash Awโs ๐๐, ๐กโ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ (Fourth Estate, 2019): "... refreshingly gives voice to this under-represented demographic of poor and working-class Malaysian-Chinese." โง ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐: chajournal.blog/2020/05/23/w... ใใใใใ
๐ ๐๐๐โ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โSerena De Marchi on Liu Liangchengโs ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ (Balestier Press, 2023), trans. Jeremy Tiang: "The novel is a journey into the crevices of language, the dark spots where limitations become possibilities and vice versa." โง ๐๐๐๐: chajournal.blog/2023/06/09/b...
๐ ๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โAstrid Mรธller-Olsen on Soon Ai Lingโs ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ (Balestier, 2023), trans. Yeo Wei Wei: "...cultural influence is not a unilinear movement from an imagined core to a perceived periphery but rather a continuous process[.]" โง ๐๐๐๐: chajournal.blog/2023/05/18/d...
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆโRed Po writes about ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ (2020), dir. Lรช Minh Hoร ng: "a youthful yet fragile testament to what it means to live, love, and migrate within the ever-shifting fabric of Saigon." โง ๐๐๐๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/27/s... ใใใใใ
I've written on the curious arrival of the Monkey King within its Southern gothic landscape in SINNERS, Ryan Cooglerโs audacious and genre-defying box office success, in the latest issue or @worldlittoday.bsky.social, devoted to the art of review. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb... ใใใใใ
๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐. | ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐โHong Kong-based Voice & Verse, a print publication distributed by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, invites submissions of poems and translations from poets and translators worldwide on ๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ . {LINK: tinyurl.com/RainstormCAL...
Can you think of a Chinese text made entirely of existing materials to present a social or political critique? An example: docsouth.unc.edu/neh/weld/wel...
One agitated academic says to another: "Downloading is NOT reading."
A portrait of my hand.
Tammy Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social: The Monkey Kingโs Diasporic Reassemblage in Sinners: worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
Here are ten.
๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐. | ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐โHong Kong-based Voice & Verse, a print publication distributed by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, invites submissions of poems and translations from poets and translators worldwide on ๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ . {LINK: tinyurl.com/RainstormCAL...
#China #USA #NewYork #AiWeiwei is one of the most prominent and influential contemporary artists, documentarians, and activists of our time....So, why is the arrival of his major artwork on Roosevelt Island virtually ignored? rooseveltislanddaily.news/2025/07/24/a...
๐ ๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โSoo Ryon Yoon on Kangyu Garam's ๐ฟ๐ข๐๐๐ฆ, ๐ด๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ก (2024): "Using olfactory encounters as a metaphor, Kangyu follows a lesbian couple & addresses themes of queer ageing against the backdrop of heteronormative middle-class desires." โง chajournal.blog/2024/08/22/l...
i am normal and can be trusted with the Morohashi dictionary jigsaw
๐ ๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โNatalie Wong on ๐ด ๐ถ๐๐ก๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ (1989), dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien: "... a portrait of the Lin family in Taiwan in the late 1940s following the end of World War II, during a period in Taiwanโs history known as the 'White Terror'." โง chajournal.blog/2023/10/05/s...
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆโBryan Elijah Trajano on ๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐ (2025), directed by Marla Ancheta: "... transports us to a time when dreams of stardom were built on cassette tapes, vinyl, radio airplay, and live gigs." โง ๐๐๐๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/25/o... ใใใใใ
[๐ก๐๐ช @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆ] Dorina Tataran on Bae Suahโs ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐โ๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐ฆ (Jonathan Cape, 2020), trans. Deborah Smith: "The novelโs structure is non-linear, dissolving the boundaries between reality and illusion." โง ๐๐๐๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/25/n... ใใใใใ
Contributors to the RAINSTORM feature so far: www.facebook.com/media/set?va...
Closing: 5 Sept. We're seeking unpublished poems in English & newly translated poems on RAINSTORM, broadly defined, from poets and translators worldwide. Weโd love to publish culturally and geographically diverse work. Contributors receive a print copy. More information: tinyurl.com/RainstormCALL
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โSeeking cultural understanding, Emma Zhang visits ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฬ, an exhibition by Mauritanian artist Saleh Lo, who paints haunting portraits of West African Qurโanic students trapped in exploitation and outdated educational systems. โง chajournal.blog/2025/08/21/s...
u.osu.edu/mclc/2025/08... Backreading Hong Kong 2025 โ cfp August 22, 2025 by denton.2@osu.edu at 8:41am CFP โ Backreading Hong Kong Symposium: Anglophone and Sinophone November 17-18, 2025 University of Toronto Call for Abstracts Deadline: September 7, 2025
In Issue 86 of Hong Kong's Voice & Verse ่ฒ้ป่ฉฉๅ, we will publish an English-language section on ๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ . Zhuxue Deren's "The City Where Suicide Is Impossible" will be included. {{ We're accepting submissions from poets and translators worldwide until 5 September 2025: tinyurl.com/RainstormCALL }}
[๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐] We are pleased to present Lok Fung's story "A Wayward Wisdom Teeth", translated from the Chinese by Chris Song, as part of the journal's ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง series. ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/22/w... ใใใใใ
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ & ๐๐๐๐๐๐โEmma Zhang reflects on her shifting identity as a language teacher in an age when machine translation threatens the role of English as a bridge to the world. Seeking cultural understanding, she visits ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฬ." โง ๐๐๐๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/21/s... ใใใ
๐ ๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โThiago Braga on Petrus Liuโs ๐๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ ๐ถโ๐๐๐๐ (Duke University Press): "... 'queerness' is couched in the signifier of identity, and the fight for โqueer rightsโ becomes a mark of linear civilisational progress." chajournal.blog/2023/08/18/t... ใใใใใ
๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆโnow accepting submissions. By Asian films, we mean works produced in Asiaโranging from the traditions of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Korean, and Southeast Asian cinemas, to the emerging voices in Central & West Asiaโ& also films by Asian diasporic... chajournal.blog/2025/08/20/i...
We're accepting submissions for ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆ, a section of @asiancha.bsky.social devoted to compact reviews of books & films (300-800 words; negotiable) that may also offer personal reflections. We welcome first impressions on any Asian-related books and films. chajournal.blog/2025/08/19/i...
"Scholarship does not exist to give comfort to the powerful."
Backreading Hong Kong Anglophone & Sinophone November 17-18, 2025 Call for AbstractsโDeadline: September 7, 2025 Explores the entangled, and at times antagonistic, relationship between the ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐ and the ๐๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐ in the study of Hong Kongโs cultural & literary fields. backreading.com/2025-2/
[๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐] Thammika Songkaeo reflects on how contemporary publicity privileges appearance, exoticism, and social capital over literary merit. "Publicity, as I observe it today, appears to demand at least one of the following conditions." โง chajournal.blog/2025/08/19/t...
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ In โTwist of Fate: When Writers Are Better Recognised for Their Imagesโ, Thammika Songkaeo offers a thoughtful reflection on how contemporary publicity privileges appearance, exoticism, & social capital over literary merit. โง๐๐๐๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/19/t...
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โIn his incisive essay, @anguslikeswords.bsky.social reflects on four works by Fang Fang. "Is ๐๐ขโ๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐ฆ punk? Yes and no. The format has a certain flippancyโall acclaim aside, it is a sequence of posts written for the internet..." chajournal.blog/2025/08/12/f...
[๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐] Abhinav Tulachan on Diamond Shumshere Ranaโs ๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐โ๐ ๐โ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ (1984): "It is a grimly accurate reflection of Nepalโs history, where survival has so often outweighed principle, even to this day." โง ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/18/w... ใใ
[๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐โNirris Nagendrarajahโs review of ๐๐ค๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ , ๐๐ค๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (2025) introduces us to Sho Miyakeโs Golden Leopardโwinning work at Locarno:a poetic filmโwithinโaโfilm that drifts between solitude & creation, seasides & winter landscapes. chajournal.blog/2025/08/18/t...
๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐โHong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine ่ฒ้ป่ฉฉๅ invites poets and translators worldwide to submit original English-language poems and poems newly translated into English for our upcoming issue themed ๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ โopen to imaginative interpretation. Guidelines: tinyurl.com/RainstormCALL
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โIn โNoodle Insurrection or a Gathering of Radicalsโ, Jennifer Eagleton intertwines Chinese character radicals with politics, crafting a witty poem around Shaanxiโs biangbiang noodles. โง ๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/17/b... ใใใใใ
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โIn his incisive essay, @anguslikeswords.bsky.social reflects on four works by Fang Fang. "Is ๐๐ขโ๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐ฆ punk? Yes and no. The format has a certain flippancyโall acclaim aside, it is a sequence of posts written for the internet..." chajournal.blog/2025/08/12/f...
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐โNguyแป n Minh Tiแบฟn on Elizabeth Aiโs ๐๐๐ค ๐๐๐ฃ๐: ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐: "... offers a meticulous portrait of how Vietnamese American communities grew and flourished during the first decades of resettlement." chajournal.blog/2025/08/17/n...
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐โJennifer Lau on Satoru Hashimotoโs ๐ด๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ก๐ก๐๐๐ : ๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ก๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ถโ๐๐๐, ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐ (@columbiaup.bsky.social 2023): "... an exceptionally erudite and intellectually invigorating work." โง chajournal.blog/2025/08/17/a...
[๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐๐] Gauri Yadavโs review essay explores Sumana Royโs ๐ป๐๐ค ๐ผ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ as an ecofeminist, genre-defying work that reimagines autobiography through plant life. โง ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/16/b... ใใใใใ
[๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐] Keziah Cho reviews ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ฆ ้ฌผๆไน้ (2024), dr. John Hsu: "As a critique of success, meritocracy, and the craving for visibility, the film is as poignant as it is tongue-in-cheek[.] โง ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/16/d... ใใใใใ
[๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐] Zalman S. Davis reviews Yiyun Liโs ๐โ๐ ๐ต๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐ (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022): "It offers a portrait of a relationship founded not on affection or mutual interest, but on control & complicity." โง ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/14/g... ใใใใใ
[๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐] Chris Sullivan contrasts urban haste with natureโs unhurried rhythms, weaving cicadas, childhood memories, and captive flamingos into a meditation on suspended instincts, looping time, and the quiet grace of slower living. LINK: chajournal.blog/2025/08/14/s...
The editors of The Shanghai Literary Review, a distinguished print & digital magazine founded in 2016, have made an alarming announcement, stating: "Weโre writing today with an important and difficult update." Why the delay? What happened? ๐ Statement: shanghailiterary.substack.com/p/issue-9-up...
In Issue 86 of Hong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine ่ฒ้ป่ฉฉๅ, we will publish an English-language section on ๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ . Richard Oyama's "Monsoon" and "Flood" will be included in this section: www.facebook.com/VoiceAndVers... Accepting submissions until 5 September 2025: tinyurl.com/RainstormCALL
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐โHongwei Bao on Atherton Linโs ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ข๐ ๐: ๐โ๐ ๐บ๐๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ก ๐ฟ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐: "Reading it is akin to being invited into the most intimate spaces of Linโs and his husbandโs lives, into the various homes they have inhabited,owing to the..." chajournal.blog/2025/08/13/d...
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โCuiyu Linโs โBroken English, Sweet Orangesโ is a meditation on language, fragility,& repair,weaving Chinese porcelain mending with personal scars to reveal brokenness as both burden and beauty, & imperfection as a vessel for truth. chajournal.blog/2025/08/13/b...
I worked hard on this and I'm so happy to share it ๐ญ Go read - go walk down Fang Fang's hall of memories ๐
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐๐ In his eloquent and incisive essay, Angus Stewart reflects on four works by Fang Fang. Moving beyond the controversies surrounding her... @sinoistbooks.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social โช@anguslikeswords.bsky.social READ: chajournal.blog/2025/08/12/f...
The editors of The Shanghai Literary Review, a distinguished print & digital magazine founded in 2016, have made an alarming announcement, stating: "Weโre writing today with an important and difficult update." Why the delay? What happened? ๐ Statement: shanghailiterary.substack.com/p/issue-9-up...
[๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐] Peixuan Xie reviews Weike Wangโs ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ข๐ ๐ (Riverhead): "Keruโs own themes of displacement centre on her identity as the daughter of Chinese immigrantsโcaught perpetually between obedience to expectations & acts of rebellion[.]" chajournal.blog/2025/08/12/r...
[๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐] Peixuan Xie reviews Weike Wangโs ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ข๐ ๐ (Riverhead Books, 2024): "Reading ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ข๐ ๐ is, for a Chinese person, a singularly curiousโalmost epiphanicโexperience." โง ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/12/r... ใใใใใ
Contributors to RAINSTORM, a special feature in a forthcoming issue of Hong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, so far: Call for poems until Friday 5 September 2025. Poets and translators worldwide are invited to send us poems and translations. LINK: tinyurl.com/RainstormCALL
[๐ก๐๐ช @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆ] Kathiravan Annamalai on ๐ ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐ท๐๐พ ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข (Cambridge University Press, 2022): "A riveting work of meticulous research and scholarly examination". โง ๐๐๐๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/12/t... ใใใใใ
๐ท๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐. ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐โVoice & Verse, a Hong Kong-based bilingual print publication, invites poets/translators worldwide to submit original ENG-language poems & poems newly translated into English for our upcoming issue themed ๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ . www.facebook.com/VoiceAndVers...
Stevie Smith. A poem that made me cry when I first read it.
๐ท๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐. Hong Kong-based Voice & Verse invites poets and translators worldwide to submit original English-language poems for our upcoming issue themed ๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ . We welcome work from a wide range of geographical & cultural backgrounds. tinyurl.com/RainstormCALL
Please help spread the word among poets/translators about this open call from a Hong Kong-based print poetry magazine. Iโm very keen to receive work from a wide range of geographical and cultural backgrounds. The theme is RAINSTORMโopen to imaginative interpretation. www.facebook.com/share/p/1GTo...
๐ If radio interviews could gave footnotes the first one for the one with me that aired yesterday would be to this piece by poet @myetcetera.bsky.social buhk.me/2015/07/26/m... on how the Cantonese version of a globally circulating song differs from its version in English
In Issue 86 of Hong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, we will publish an English-language section on ๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ . Bea Jav's "Forecast" will be included in this section. {{{ We are accepting submissions until Friday 5 September 2025: tinyurl.com/RainstormCALL }} www.instagram.com/p/DNIB7G2M4z...
[๐ก๐๐ช @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆ] Fathima M on Saad Omar Khanโs ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ (Buckrider Books, 2025): "Life in Canada feels, for them, like inhabiting a strangerโs body." โง ๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/08/d...
[๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐] Heather Y. Kim on Winifred Dongyi Wangโs ๐ท๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐ (Accent Edition 2025): "... a young Chinese woman leaves Beijing for New York. Yet her childhood in Beijing haunts her,so that each step she attempts to take forward..." chajournal.blog/2025/08/08/m...
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐โJason Low on Daryl Yamโs ๐ฟ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: "In late March 1996, an intruderโtracked by millions around the globeโraced across the sky. This interloper, discovered by an amateur astronomer in Japan using a pair of large binoculars[.]" chajournal.blog/2025/08/08/l...
๐ท๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐. ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐โVoice & Verse, a Hong Kong-based bilingual print publication, invites poets/translators worldwide to submit original ENG-language poems & poems newly translated into English for our upcoming issue themed ๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ . www.facebook.com/VoiceAndVers...
Backreading Hong Kong Anglophone & Sinophone November 17-18, 2025 Call for AbstractsโDeadline: September 7, 2025 Explores the entangled, and at times antagonistic, relationship between the ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐ and the ๐๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐ in the study of Hong Kongโs cultural & literary fields. backreading.com/2025-2/
Wayne Wong captures so effectively what the new pieces by Amy Hawkins and Kris Cheng, specially written for the 2025 @brixtonink.bsky.social updated edition of Vigil add to the book, and he does it with poetic turns of phrase
Wow, an extraordinary wide ranging essay by Wayne Wong, smart and moving, honored to have my books discussed in it the way they are
๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐โWayne Wong on Jeffrey Wasserstrom's ๐๐๐๐๐: ๐โ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐, (Brixton Ink, 2025): "What began as a modest act of documentation now reads as diasporic memory work[.]" โง ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐: chajournal.blog/2025/08/06/w... ใใใใใ @jwassers.bsky.social
โDemocracy Roadโ, photograph ยฉ Jennifer Anne Eagleton [๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐] Jennifer Eagleton reviews Ming-sho Hoโs ๐ถโ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ฃ๐๐: ๐๐๐๐ค๐๐โ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ค๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ก (Temple University Press 2018). โง chajournal.blog/2025/08/06/s...
Vaishak Belle and I have written a children's book and we are excited to launch it with Parakeets Books! It is about the friendship between a girl and a robot as they embark on an adventure to understand empathy and emotions. Please support us on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...
Fire Dragon Feminism is one of the most important and brilliant books I've read this year. Check out my book review at @asiancha.bsky.social!
[๐๐๐ @asiancha.bsky.social ๐๐๐๐๐๐] Jennifer Eagleton reviews Ming-sho Hoโs ๐ถโ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ฃ๐๐: "... draws on a wealth of materialsโincluding published works, films, social media, speeches, art, and, in particular, his own in-depth interviews." chajournal.blog/2025/08/06/s...
