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.
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Aastha Uprety’s essay reads Jia Zhangke's 𝑆𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 and Razan AlSalah's 𝐴 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒’𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑤 as twin elegies of engineered upheaval, where dams and pipelines reorder earth and memory.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/15/d...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/15/d...
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February 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Aastha Uprety’s essay reads Jia Zhangke's 𝑆𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 and Razan AlSalah's 𝐴 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒’𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑤 as twin elegies of engineered upheaval, where dams and pipelines reorder earth and memory.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/15/d...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/15/d...
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𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Fathima M on Premchand's 𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑎 (Sahitya Akademi, 2023), trans. Haris Qadeer & Sami Rafiq: "This social play was not only relevant to its own time, but is perhaps even more pertinent today."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/14/k...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/14/k...
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February 14, 2026 at 11:17 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Fathima M on Premchand's 𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑎 (Sahitya Akademi, 2023), trans. Haris Qadeer & Sami Rafiq: "This social play was not only relevant to its own time, but is perhaps even more pertinent today."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/14/k...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/14/k...
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Some appearances (and I will also be giving a lecture on newly translated Hong Kong fiction).
I am in Venice (what an amazing place!) until the end of the month. Let me know if you are around and/or if you have any suggestions. 😀🥰
I am in Venice (what an amazing place!) until the end of the month. Let me know if you are around and/or if you have any suggestions. 😀🥰
February 14, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Some appearances (and I will also be giving a lecture on newly translated Hong Kong fiction).
I am in Venice (what an amazing place!) until the end of the month. Let me know if you are around and/or if you have any suggestions. 😀🥰
I am in Venice (what an amazing place!) until the end of the month. Let me know if you are around and/or if you have any suggestions. 😀🥰
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Anna Nguyen turns on an offhand slight, “No one speaks Vietnamese,” & worries it into grief, form, & theory. Between a father’s aphasic silence & a mother’s nightly monologues, Vietnamese persists. Also featuring a poem.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/13/d...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/13/d...
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February 13, 2026 at 7:15 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Anna Nguyen turns on an offhand slight, “No one speaks Vietnamese,” & worries it into grief, form, & theory. Between a father’s aphasic silence & a mother’s nightly monologues, Vietnamese persists. Also featuring a poem.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/13/d...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/13/d...
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[𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔] “𝐉𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐟 𝐊𝐮𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐚 𝐖𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐲𝐤𝐚’𝐬 𝑯𝒂-𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒚!: 𝐀 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐝, 𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐡” 𝐛𝐲 𝐍𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐡: "Soon after her husband Luis dies of a heart attack, Haru begins seeing an oversized, cutesy black bird."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/13/b...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/13/b...
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February 13, 2026 at 6:51 PM
[𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔] “𝐉𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐟 𝐊𝐮𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐚 𝐖𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐲𝐤𝐚’𝐬 𝑯𝒂-𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒚!: 𝐀 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐝, 𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐡” 𝐛𝐲 𝐍𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐡: "Soon after her husband Luis dies of a heart attack, Haru begins seeing an oversized, cutesy black bird."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/13/b...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/13/b...
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[𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔] “𝐑𝐚𝐟𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐥’𝐬 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒊𝒏̃𝒂𝒏𝒂: 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞” 𝐛𝐲 𝐍𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐡: "As in the short, one strand of the narrative follows Isabel, played by Jorrybell Agoto, across an ominous, sweltering day."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/13/r...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/13/r...
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February 13, 2026 at 6:28 PM
[𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔] “𝐑𝐚𝐟𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐥’𝐬 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒊𝒏̃𝒂𝒏𝒂: 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞” 𝐛𝐲 𝐍𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐡: "As in the short, one strand of the narrative follows Isabel, played by Jorrybell Agoto, across an ominous, sweltering day."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/13/r...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/13/r...
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𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒—Susan Blumberg-Kason writes about M Lin's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑚 (Graywolf Press), forthcoming later this year: "Memory is central to this longing for the past, and it often operates selectively."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/12/m...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/12/m...
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February 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒—Susan Blumberg-Kason writes about M Lin's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑚 (Graywolf Press), forthcoming later this year: "Memory is central to this longing for the past, and it often operates selectively."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/12/m...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/12/m...
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[𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔] “𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐀𝐡𝐧’𝐬 𝑩𝒆𝒅𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒌” 𝐛𝐲 𝐍𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐡: "It is inevitable that 𝐵𝑒𝑑𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑘, written and directed by Stephanie Ahn, will be placed in conversation with 𝑃𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠. In truth, it benefits from the comparison."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/12/b...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/12/b...
February 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
[𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔] “𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐀𝐡𝐧’𝐬 𝑩𝒆𝒅𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒌” 𝐛𝐲 𝐍𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐡: "It is inevitable that 𝐵𝑒𝑑𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑘, written and directed by Stephanie Ahn, will be placed in conversation with 𝑃𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠. In truth, it benefits from the comparison."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/12/b...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/12/b...
[𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔] 𝐍𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐌𝐢𝐚𝐨’𝐬 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝑺𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔: "... the real-life Rock Springs Massacre of 1885 remains a scarcely acknowledged atrocity. The massacre, which followed the Chinese Exclusion Act, was a brutal assault on Chinese miners..."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/11/r...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/11/r...
February 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM
[𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔] 𝐍𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐌𝐢𝐚𝐨’𝐬 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝑺𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔: "... the real-life Rock Springs Massacre of 1885 remains a scarcely acknowledged atrocity. The massacre, which followed the Chinese Exclusion Act, was a brutal assault on Chinese miners..."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/11/r...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/11/r...
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Pál Dániel Levente, a guest of honour at the 2026 Brahmaputra Literature Festival, proposes a poetics of butterflies, stones, and blades. The five poems move within that range. "I hold a clear conviction"
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/11/b...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/11/b...
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February 11, 2026 at 3:34 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Pál Dániel Levente, a guest of honour at the 2026 Brahmaputra Literature Festival, proposes a poetics of butterflies, stones, and blades. The five poems move within that range. "I hold a clear conviction"
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/11/b...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/11/b...
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𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social—Jonathan Chan reads 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑁𝑜 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 (Wendy's Subway, 2024), eds. Juwon Jun & Rachel Valinsky, as a collective meditation on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, attending closely to individual essays, poems, & artworks.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/09/s...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/09/s...
February 9, 2026 at 3:18 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social—Jonathan Chan reads 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑁𝑜 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 (Wendy's Subway, 2024), eds. Juwon Jun & Rachel Valinsky, as a collective meditation on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, attending closely to individual essays, poems, & artworks.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/09/s...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/09/s...
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Gutierrez Mangansakan II recounts acting on a film by Lav Diaz to examine how Mindanao shapes Diaz’s cinema. "Mindanao is the Philippines’ most persistently colonised and militarised region,. where violence is cyclical & unresolved."
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/09/l...
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/09/l...
February 9, 2026 at 7:20 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Gutierrez Mangansakan II recounts acting on a film by Lav Diaz to examine how Mindanao shapes Diaz’s cinema. "Mindanao is the Philippines’ most persistently colonised and militarised region,. where violence is cyclical & unresolved."
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/09/l...
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/09/l...
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Todd Foley reviews Sheng Keyi's 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠: 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑂𝑛 (Penguin, 2012), trans. Shelly Bryant: "Xiaohong, the protagonist, exhibits an élan vital that compellingly drives her quest for personal growth and happiness."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/09/g...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/09/g...
February 9, 2026 at 6:45 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Todd Foley reviews Sheng Keyi's 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠: 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑂𝑛 (Penguin, 2012), trans. Shelly Bryant: "Xiaohong, the protagonist, exhibits an élan vital that compellingly drives her quest for personal growth and happiness."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/09/g...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/09/g...
My second favourite "Budapest" film is PLASTIC WHITE SKY. Have yous seen it? What's your gut reaction to it?
February 8, 2026 at 12:55 AM
My second favourite "Budapest" film is PLASTIC WHITE SKY. Have yous seen it? What's your gut reaction to it?
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—In Gutierrez Mangansakan II’s essay, growing trees in red-clay pots becomes a metaphor for exile, love, & impermanence. He reflects on denied inheritance & chosen distance, arguing that care, memory, & grief are ways of living meaningfully.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/07/c...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/07/c...
February 7, 2026 at 7:28 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—In Gutierrez Mangansakan II’s essay, growing trees in red-clay pots becomes a metaphor for exile, love, & impermanence. He reflects on denied inheritance & chosen distance, arguing that care, memory, & grief are ways of living meaningfully.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/07/c...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/07/c...
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒—Rebekah Chan writes about Grace Loh Prasad's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟’𝑠 𝐷𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑟: "Prasad leaves her country of birth for America with her family in the early 1970s, fearing persecution under the Kuomintang dictatorship."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/07/t...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/07/t...
February 7, 2026 at 5:42 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒—Rebekah Chan writes about Grace Loh Prasad's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟’𝑠 𝐷𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑟: "Prasad leaves her country of birth for America with her family in the early 1970s, fearing persecution under the Kuomintang dictatorship."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/07/t...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/07/t...
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Cuilin Sang reviews Sheng Keyi's 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠: 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑂𝑛 (Penguin, 2012), trans. Shelly Bryant: "𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠 is less designed than “eruptive,” to use her own word, and thus adopts a curiously energetic, untamed shape."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/05/n...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/05/n...
February 5, 2026 at 7:28 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Cuilin Sang reviews Sheng Keyi's 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠: 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑂𝑛 (Penguin, 2012), trans. Shelly Bryant: "𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠 is less designed than “eruptive,” to use her own word, and thus adopts a curiously energetic, untamed shape."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/05/n...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/05/n...
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social—Laurehl Onyx B. Cabiles considers the films 𝐵𝑖𝑔 𝐹𝑖𝑠ℎ & 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝐹𝑖𝑠ℎ in relation to his father & the Filipino dish kinilaw, using cinema as a lens for memory & grief."The legend he once passed on to me took place long before I was born."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/04/f...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/04/f...
February 4, 2026 at 10:35 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social—Laurehl Onyx B. Cabiles considers the films 𝐵𝑖𝑔 𝐹𝑖𝑠ℎ & 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝐹𝑖𝑠ℎ in relation to his father & the Filipino dish kinilaw, using cinema as a lens for memory & grief."The legend he once passed on to me took place long before I was born."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/04/f...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/04/f...
[𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔] Nirris Nagendrarajah: "Zi repeatedly flees moments of perceived exclusion, running from former flames only to find herself crying alone in crowds,her private devastation framed by public spectacle.A fireworks display casts her grief in sublime light."
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/04/zi/
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/04/zi/
February 4, 2026 at 9:03 PM
[𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔] Nirris Nagendrarajah: "Zi repeatedly flees moments of perceived exclusion, running from former flames only to find herself crying alone in crowds,her private devastation framed by public spectacle.A fireworks display casts her grief in sublime light."
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/04/zi/
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/04/zi/
[𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔] Our resident film critic Nirris Nagendrarajah reviews Kogonada’s 𝑧𝑖 (2025), a Hong Kong-set meditation on mortality & memory, in which cinematic homages & Zi’s emotional odyssey reveal grief’s disorientation & the tentative solace of connection.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/04/zi/
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/04/zi/
February 4, 2026 at 8:51 PM
[𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔] Our resident film critic Nirris Nagendrarajah reviews Kogonada’s 𝑧𝑖 (2025), a Hong Kong-set meditation on mortality & memory, in which cinematic homages & Zi’s emotional odyssey reveal grief’s disorientation & the tentative solace of connection.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/04/zi/
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/04/zi/
Susan Barker has been named one of the Writers-in-Residence at this year's International Writers’ Workshop programme. Kevin McGeary's on her 𝑂𝑙𝑑 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑙: "Barker mentioned that her sense of the afterlife was profoundly shaped by her Malaysian-Chinese heritage."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/03/03/s...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/03/03/s...
February 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Susan Barker has been named one of the Writers-in-Residence at this year's International Writers’ Workshop programme. Kevin McGeary's on her 𝑂𝑙𝑑 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑙: "Barker mentioned that her sense of the afterlife was profoundly shaped by her Malaysian-Chinese heritage."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/03/03/s...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/03/03/s...
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Todd Foley on Ge Fei's 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝐵𝑖𝑟𝑑𝑠 (Penguin Australia, 2016), translated from the Chinese by Poppy Toland: "When I first read the book in the original Chinese, slowly and laboriously, many years ago, for a..."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/03/flock
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/03/flock
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February 3, 2026 at 10:52 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Todd Foley on Ge Fei's 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝐵𝑖𝑟𝑑𝑠 (Penguin Australia, 2016), translated from the Chinese by Poppy Toland: "When I first read the book in the original Chinese, slowly and laboriously, many years ago, for a..."
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/03/flock
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/02/03/flock
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𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑲𝒂𝒓-𝒘𝒂𝒊: 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑶𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒏
by Giorgio Biancorosso
We're interested in publishing reviews/essays on 𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑲𝒂𝒓-𝒘𝒂𝒊. If you're interested in this title, please send an email to [email protected].
⧉ 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
by Giorgio Biancorosso
We're interested in publishing reviews/essays on 𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑲𝒂𝒓-𝒘𝒂𝒊. If you're interested in this title, please send an email to [email protected].
⧉ 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
February 3, 2026 at 9:47 AM
𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑲𝒂𝒓-𝒘𝒂𝒊: 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑶𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒏
by Giorgio Biancorosso
We're interested in publishing reviews/essays on 𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑲𝒂𝒓-𝒘𝒂𝒊. If you're interested in this title, please send an email to [email protected].
⧉ 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
by Giorgio Biancorosso
We're interested in publishing reviews/essays on 𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑲𝒂𝒓-𝒘𝒂𝒊. If you're interested in this title, please send an email to [email protected].
⧉ 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social—Zalman S. Davis reads Thơ Mới poetry as a space where male intimacy could appear through ambiguity & restraint. Xuân Diệu’s sensuous lyricism & Huy Cận’s melancholic reserve express modern subjectivity inflected by suppressed queer desire.
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/03/v...
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/03/v...
February 3, 2026 at 9:10 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social—Zalman S. Davis reads Thơ Mới poetry as a space where male intimacy could appear through ambiguity & restraint. Xuân Diệu’s sensuous lyricism & Huy Cận’s melancholic reserve express modern subjectivity inflected by suppressed queer desire.
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/03/v...
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/03/v...
{𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓} 𝐀 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠
We're very pleased to announce that we have formed a collaboration with the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing to republish selected reviews of translated titles from their platform.
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/03/l...
We're very pleased to announce that we have formed a collaboration with the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing to republish selected reviews of translated titles from their platform.
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/03/l...
February 3, 2026 at 3:42 AM
{𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓} 𝐀 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠
We're very pleased to announce that we have formed a collaboration with the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing to republish selected reviews of translated titles from their platform.
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/03/l...
We're very pleased to announce that we have formed a collaboration with the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing to republish selected reviews of translated titles from their platform.
⧉ chajournal.com/2026/02/03/l...