Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
@myetcetera.bsky.social
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: [email protected] | Originally from Hong Kong, I'm currently based in Paris.
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Can you think of a Chinese text made entirely of existing materials to present a social or political critique? An example:
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This is one of my favourite episodes of WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?. Rewatching it due to Fry's "I'm a grown man, what the hell am I doing" lovely outburst on Celebrity Traitors.

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Stephen Fry | Season 2 Episode 3 | Full Episode | Who Do You Think You Are
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November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Solaris vs The Lobster
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Jennifer Eagleton reviews Lee Sang-il's 𝐾𝑜𝑘𝑢ℎ𝑜 (2025), noting that its cinematography exquisitely captures kabuki’s ritual & grandeur, while the embedded plays on unrequited love & death mirror the protagonists’ emotional journeys.

chajournal.blog/2025/11/25/k...
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I wrote something.

" To use the mark was to risk suspicion, and people altered their language accordingly. Writers recast sentences, speakers modified their pauses, students revised their notes, and poets re-shaped their lines."

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November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] Fathima M reflects on Yōko Ogawa’s 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑎’𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑏𝑜𝑥 (Pantheon Books, 2024), trans. Stephen B. Snyder, as a gentle study of sisterhood, quiet privilege, and the enduring solace found in reading, memory, and the ordinary.

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/24/m...
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The believer, the daughter, the artist, and the student. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5YK...
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I wrote something.

"Most knew her online simply as L. She lived between cities and she worked with words: teaching them, editing them, translating them, and training them to behave in lines, the way she liked them."

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November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I wrote something.

"Most people would have missed it if the escalator lights had not caught the laminate just so. But there it was at Admiralty, a signthat had not existed the night before: 𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃 ..." www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
「𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖」 Lorence Lozano reviews Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s 𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 (2025), an unsettling study of a society hollowed by capitalist precarity and coercive expectations.

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/23/h...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦—Rebekah Chan on Teresa Wong’s 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑂𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠(Arsenal Pulp Press): "The result is a hybrid of English shaped by Chinese grammar,or Chinese words scattered within sentences in which they would not normally appear."
chajournal.blog/2025/11/23/o...
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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#histbookchat #sinology New arrival! The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China by Ruixue Jia & Hongbin Li (2025) - supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who was awarded her English degree after reading only one book (Great Gatsby) just to stop her rabbiting on about it
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
Two works by Lui Shou-Kwan one of the most prominent Cantonese painters of the 20th century & a founder of the Hong Kong New Ink Movement. What also makes these intreresting is that they come from the estate of Lord Murray Maclehose (1917-2000), the 25th Governor of Hong Kong from 1971 to 1982….
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
We'd love to publish reviews of these works in @asiancha.bsky.social. They focus on the Japanese Canadian internment & its legacies, tracing histories of dispossession, intergenerational trauma, memory, and reconciliation. Email [email protected] if you are interested in reading any of these titles.
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Ai-Ting Chung examines 𝐴𝑖𝑟 𝑀𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 (2022),dir. Jo Yong-sun, as an ecocinema work grounded in real-life tragedy: South Korea’s humidifier disinfectant disaster, which killed and injured thousands between the 1990s and 2011.

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/21/a...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
He’s been full of anxiety for about two weeks now. That man in the green T-shirt had to be a tricky hallucination. He owns the same T-shirt with the same cartoon, the same bold yellow logo. If that man was real, then things were about to get freaky.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Very pleased to announce the first accepted poems for the WHITE feature in an upcoming issue of Hong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine.

Ellen:
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November 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦̄—Jeremiah Dutch on 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑛 (1961), dir. Etenne Périer: "Living abroad and watching one’s homeland descend into extremism is distressing at best, yet it would be even harder to be a diplomat dispatched..."
chajournal.blog/2025/11/21/t...
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] In this review of 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔ℎ𝑎𝑖 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛, Victoria Green celebrates Leo Ou-fan Lee’s restoration of Shanghai’s interrupted modernist flowering.

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/20/s...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑦. 𝑪𝑨𝑳𝑳 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑷𝑶𝑬𝑴𝑺—We invite submissions of original poems or poems newly translated into English on the theme “White" for an upcoming issue of Hong Kong's VOICE & VERSE POETRY MAGAZINE.

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November 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Reposted by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
Drugs. Rubber aliens. A paradise of sadness. Thank you @myetcetera.bsky.social for taking my strange writings on two heartfelt Chinese films and only truly debased creation from, of all people, Filthy Frank 👽
At @asiancha.bsky.social, @anguslikeswords.bsky.social situates Xiaosha Zhang’s mockumentary 𝑀𝑦 𝑆𝑜𝑛 𝑊𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡 within China’s rising science fiction cinema.He compares it to Kong Dashan’s 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡 & TVFilthyFrank’s 𝐸.𝑇. 2,tracing shared themes.
chajournal.blog/2025/11/15/e...
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
At @asiancha.bsky.social, @anguslikeswords.bsky.social situates Xiaosha Zhang’s mockumentary 𝑀𝑦 𝑆𝑜𝑛 𝑊𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡 within China’s rising science fiction cinema.He compares it to Kong Dashan’s 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡 & TVFilthyFrank’s 𝐸.𝑇. 2,tracing shared themes.
chajournal.blog/2025/11/15/e...
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I was a little shy to make such a claim about translated Chinese fiction at first, then had to stop and think: "come on man, you've read a LOT of it"
"Delicious Hunger stands out not only among Tiang’s formidable credits, but also from translated Chinese fiction as a whole,& indeed from on-the-ground revolutionary fiction." Angus Stewart on Hai Fan's book, trans. Jeremy Tiang @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social: asianreviewofbooks.com/delicious-hu...
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Reposted by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
Thanks to @asiancha.bsky.social for publishing my review of One Girl Infinite. The film is part of the @queereast.bsky.social programme touring nationally in the UK.
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖— @queercomrades.bsky.social on 𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙 𝐼𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒 不可能女孩 (2025), directed by Lilly Hu (also known in Mandarin as Jiaying Hu): "There seem to be endless energies and high hopes for a life shared by two young women."

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/14/i...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖— @queercomrades.bsky.social on 𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙 𝐼𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒 不可能女孩 (2025), directed by Lilly Hu (also known in Mandarin as Jiaying Hu): "There seem to be endless energies and high hopes for a life shared by two young women."

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/14/i...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"Delicious Hunger stands out not only among Tiang’s formidable credits, but also from translated Chinese fiction as a whole,& indeed from on-the-ground revolutionary fiction." Angus Stewart on Hai Fan's book, trans. Jeremy Tiang @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social: asianreviewofbooks.com/delicious-hu...
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM