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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 6h

𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐌𝐒—Hong Kong's 聲韻詩刊 Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine invites submissions of previously unpublished poems in English and poems newly translated from other languages into English exploring "Apocalypse" in its global, collective dimensions. www.facebook.com/share/p/1HzF...

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 14h

𝗡𝗘𝗪 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪—Nazir Wani reviews Mallika Bhaumik’s 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐 𝐽𝑎𝑟 (Red River Press, 2025): "A life worth writing about need not be perfect or prosperous."

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/08/m...
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 20h

𝑇𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 unfurls a nightmarish vision of lovers dissolving into a single body. When it opened in China on 19 September, the film was reshaped: not only were its sex scenes excised, but an AI face-swapping sleight turned a same-sex wedding into a heterosexual union.

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 20h

[𝗡𝗘𝗪 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪—In Charlie Ng’s review of Hon Lai-chu’s 𝑀𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 (translated by Jacqueline Leung, Two Lines Press, 2025) and Michael Shanks’s 𝑇𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 (2025), the search for one’s “other half” is reimagined as both yearning & undoing.

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/08/b...

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 1d

[@asiancha.bsky.social 𝗘𝗫𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗩𝗘—𝗧𝗜𝗙𝗙 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱] We're pleased to present a conversation between our resident film critic, Nirris Nagendrarajah, and director Kalainithan Kalaichelvan. Their exchange explores 𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑦's defiant reimagining of the Tamil matriarch.

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/07/k...
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 1d

Want to know more. Can you give us some examples?

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 1d

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—In this conversation with Sadie Kaye, 77-year-old Hong Kong artist George Tang Kwok-wing reflects on his seven decades in art in the lead-up to his participation in Fine Art Asia 2025.

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/07/g...
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 1d

[@asiancha.bsky.social 𝗘𝗫𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗩𝗘] Our resident critic Nirris Nagendrarajah reviews 𝑁𝑜 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝐶ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 (2025), dir. Park Chan-wook: "... the audience feel like confidants to the director’s vision, which appears to be viewed as almost godlike & beyond reproach."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/07/n...

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 1d

Cha @asiancha.bsky.social contributor Maureen Tai @maureentai.com: "I was in Penang and saw this and thought of Cha." 😍🥰😎

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 2d

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming

"Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 3d

I understand people saying - but this may have been taken out of context - but I am arguing with this specific meme circulating on social media

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 3d

I think this is dismissive - many people have curiosity removed from them through childhood - leaving school believing science , poetry, art - are not things they are allowed to be part of and terrified that if they try to engage they will be admonished for not understanding things the “right” way

"The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious.
Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is."
-Stephen Fry

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 2d

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖: Tiffany Troy speaks with Chenxin Jiang about her rendering of Yau Ching's 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡. Jiang describes Yau Ching’s language as "Cantonese-inflected standard Chinese" because...

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/05/c...
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 3d

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄: In this interview, poet & critic Tiffany Troy speaks with translator Chenxin Jiang abt her recent rendering of 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 (Zephyr Press) by Hong Kong poet, filmmaker,& scholar Yau Ching.

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/05/c...

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 4d

⧉ 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔: 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑱𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔, 1890–1930
𝐁𝐲 𝐀𝐧𝐫𝐢 𝐘𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐚
"Yasuda shows how thinking about beauty and art enabled these authors to surpass purely “literary” concerns."
𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤: cup.columbia.edu/book/beauty-...

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 4d

⧉ 𝑩𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝒂𝒃𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒏
𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐢, 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐉. 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐑𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫
"Written in an intimate epistolary style, Mori's memoir chronicles his complex response as an outsider to a culture he so admired."
𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 4d

Mori Arimasa’s memoir 𝐵𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑎𝑏𝑦𝑙𝑜𝑛 (trans. J. Thomas Rimer) and Anri Yasuda’s study 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 engage Japan’s relationship to European aesthetics. If you're interested in reading one or both of these books and writing about them for @asiancha.bsky.social, pls email [email protected]

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 4d

The documentary 𝑶𝒓𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍: 2+2=5 looks at the last months of George Orwell’s life as he completes his unsettling novel, 1984. The director Raoul Peck, celebrated for 𝐼 𝐴𝑚 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑁𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑜 and 𝐸𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑟𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠, and more, brings his questioning gaze to Orwell.
More: collider.com/orwell-two-p...

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 5d

[𝗡𝗘𝗪 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪] In her reflection on 𝑌𝑎𝑡 𝑌𝑎𝑡 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑑𝑜𝑚, dir. Eva Yip Man-lai, Dawna Fung reveals how the work transforms theatre into a sanctuary, where play revives innocence, wounds find voice, & Hong Kong’s tender spirit.

⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/10/03/y...

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 5d

Looking forward to being back at Stanford on December 2 for this very special event, on a program about Chinese typewriters, Lin Yutang, and all sorts of related issues with @tsmullaney.bsky.social @yangyangcheng.bsky.social & other special people cc @afrawang.bsky.social @koxinga.bsky.social

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 5d

The legendary 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐊𝐰𝐚𝐢 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 has been found. On 2 Dec, Stanford will reintroduce it to the world, featuring: Tom Mullaney, Yangyang Cheng, Emma Teng, David Brock, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Willie Liu, & Martin Wong

www.eventbrite.com/e/mingkwai-r...
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 5d

[𝗡𝗘𝗪 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪] In her reflection on 𝑌𝑎𝑡 𝑌𝑎𝑡 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑑𝑜𝑚, dir. Eva Yip Man-lai, Dawna Fung reveals how the work transforms theatre into a sanctuary, where play revives innocence, wounds find voice, & Hong Kong’s tender spirit.

⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/10/03/y...

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 5d

Writing for @asiancha.bsky.social, Michael Londra appraises Thuận’s 𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑎̀𝑖 𝐺𝑜̀𝑛 (trans. Nguyễn An Lỳ) as a time-skipping detective satire: a daughter investigates her mother’s death while confronting communist & capitalist hypocrisies, diasporic ...

⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/10/03/e...

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 5d

The legendary 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐊𝐰𝐚𝐢 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 has been found. On 2 Dec, Stanford will reintroduce it to the world, featuring: Tom Mullaney, Yangyang Cheng, Emma Teng, David Brock, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Willie Liu, & Martin Wong

www.eventbrite.com/e/mingkwai-r...
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 9d

𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒: 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 (eds. Mackenzie Cooley & Huiyi Wu, University of Michigan Press / Liverpool University Press, 2025) places China within global intellectual and imperial conversations, juxtaposing Chinese and Iberian perspectives.

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 9d

𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎: 𝐼𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 (Carla Nappi, Oxford University Press, 2021) follows the unpredictable movements of words and concepts across languages and geographies, experimenting with how history itself can be written.

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 9d

𝑂𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛: 𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎 (Andrew Schonebaum, University of Washington Press, 2025) explores how hidden phenomena and everyday wonders informed shared understandings of the world.

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