𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 Rebekah Chan on Xu Xi's 𝐻𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑜𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 (Gaudy Boy, 2026): "Xu Xi’s latest collection of short stories transported me across time, class, and borders into Hong Kong worlds that I could never inhabit within a single lifetime. 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄: chajournal.com/2026/08/04/m... 。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 Jason S Polley on Patrick Holland's 𝑂𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑛 (Transit Lounge): "First, I read 𝑂𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑛, which is Holland’s seventh book, in two sittings: a long Thursday afternoon that seemed short, and the following Friday night that was too short." chajournal.com/2026/08/04/o...

Scotland based, The Candyman's Trumpet Magazine, ed. Jack Caradoc, shines a spotlight on poetry by Afghan women & girls in its August issue. The special section titled "Afghan Women Poets" is guest edited & curated by poet Shikha Sawhney Lamba. 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊: drive.google.com/file/d/1jIJA...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Anna Nguyen on Mai-Linh Hong's 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐷𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑡 (Trio House Press): "There is a kind of diasporic narrative I yearn to write. I am not sure exactly what this narrative, or this poetry, might be, but I remain on the lookout for it." chajournal.com/2026/08/03/d...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Mani Rao reviews Maitreyee B. Chowdhury's 𝐼 𝑊𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑 (Red River Press, 2026): "... a collection of poems inspired by her visits to places across India, on foot. The startling, jazzy poems in this book draw upon the land..." 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄: chajournal.com/2026/08/03/i...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 Raymond K. Nakamura on Christopher Cheung's 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑉𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑣𝑒𝑟 (ECW Press 2026):"Cheung focuses on interviews with everyday people, even when dealing with physical aspects of the city,such as architecture or street names." 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞: chajournal.com/2026/08/02/v...

New event! 📆8th Aug 🕑2pm Hongkong Time Join @asiancha.bsky.social for "Hong Kong & Ireland: Two places, one conversation" w/ @myetcetera.bsky.social Alexis lai, Lesley Cheung & Michael O'Sullivan & more Details: www.instagram.com/p/DbAqedgqb8D

𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠 & 𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝: 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐴 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑝 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐶ℎ𝑎: 𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 Call for Speakers We're inviting people to share their experience of living in and knowing both Hong Kong and Ireland. www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1... 。。。。。

What should I write on next? I'm into haunting, ghosts, the uncanny, spectrality, hauntology, disappearance, afterimages, ancestral debt,& haunted commodities that have to do with Asian contexts, including Asian literature, film,& material culture, Asian modernity,& Asian history and everyday life.

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | In “No Moral at Its End", Matt Reeck reflects on his first-ever published work of fiction, "Three Travelling Portraits: India", also published in 𝐶ℎ𝑎: "I was interested in depicting some of the sexual tension that I had..." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/14/n... 。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 | We are very pleased to publish Matt Reeck's first-ever published work of fiction, “Three Traveling Portraits: India”. Matt also provides an accompanying personal essay, “No Moral at Its End". 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/14/t... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | Drawing on memories of a small-town internet café, Laurehl Onyx B. Cabiles reflects on friendship, film, piracy, and poverty. "There was a well-known internet café in our municipality. Like all other small businesses, [...]" 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/14/i... 。。。

Sometimes, we make selected journal pieces available as downloadable PDFs. When you see the PDF icon, you can download a printer-friendly version of the piece. PDFs are provided only for selected articles, at the editor's discretion. 𝐓𝐑𝐘: chajournal.com/2026/07/11/b... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 | We are very pleased to publish Christian Wilken's first-ever published work of fiction,“The Room After the Typhoon”. Christian on the story: "... began with a memory from my year as an exchange student in Okinawa,from 2013 to 2014." chajournal.com/2026/07/13/t...

Aoyama 'houdt zich liever bezig met het "smakelijke" Taiwan dan met een politiek complex Taiwan en heeft het op haar reizen maar zelden over de onrechtvaardigheden van de Japanse overheersing.' Bespreking van "Reisdagboek Taiwan" (Eng vert Lin King, NL vert Silvia Marijnissen en ikzelf). #literatuur

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𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Jennifer Eagleton on Booker Prize-winning 𝑇𝑎𝑖𝑤𝑎𝑛 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, trans. Lin King: "... the act of consuming, exoticising, and fundamentally misunderstanding a colonised culture when one travels through it." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/05/t... 。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | In five linked poetic vignettes, Marsha McDonald writes about bears, boars, monkeys, mice and cats across Japan. "Other animals often know things we humans don’t, or that we have forgotten. I wonder what the bears know?" 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/11/b... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Fathima M reviews Salma's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 (Simon & Schuster, 2025): "When the desires of women are voiced, they become stories of longing, frustration, silence and oppression, among other things." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/11/d... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 Yun Li’s essay was originally written in 𝑋𝑖𝑛𝑚𝑖𝑛 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠. She translated the piece into English herself: "I wrote the piece because Saigon struck me as a city with both historical depth and an unexpectedly romantic undertone." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/09/s...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 | In this lively interview, Sadie Kaye talks to Lindsey McAlister about swapping thirty years of directing Hong Kong's youth arts scene for painting. 𝐖𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: chajournal.com/2026/07/09/l... 。。。。。

Inspired by Bo Wang's short film 𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐺ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 & Yoko Ogawa's "Welcome to the Museum of Torture," from 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒: 𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠, @myetcetera.bsky.social wrote a piece on hauntology, ghosts, & hair, the body's strange exception: dead & living simultaneously. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 Swapna Sanchita writes about 𝑃𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑧𝑎ℎ (1972), dir. Kamal Amrohi: "At 47, living through a career, a marriage and the chaotic balancing act of being a so-called modern woman in India, 𝑃𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑧𝑎ℎ... completely broke my heart." chajournal.com/2026/07/08/t...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social: Susan Blumberg-Kason on Steven Schwankert's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑥, highlighting how he dispels enduring 𝑇𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐 myths about Chinese passengers, traces survivor Fong Wing Sun's remarkable life, and situates the book within his wider maritime scholarship. chajournal.com/2026/07/08/t...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | In her new contribution, Rituparna Mukherjee compares two Delhi noir novels, Sengupta's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 and Roy 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟, whose murder plots lay bare caste privilege, patriarchal violence and religious xenophobia 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/08/i... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 Hilda Wong reviews Mimi Kwa's 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐾𝑤𝑎 (ABC Books, 2021): /「家家有本難念的經」: “Every family has a scripture that is too difficult to chant”. Growing up in Hong Kong,this proverb has been woven into our collective consciousness[.] / 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/07/k...

[REVIEW] “The Colonial Gaze at the Dinner Table: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue” by Jennifer Eagleton chajournal.com/2026/07/05/t...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 | Vanessa Winghei Yeung draws our attention to Fung Hon Shing's 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 (𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒) 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑡:"In just under ten minutes, viewers are given the privilege of following HK newts’ trajectories both underwater and on land." chajournal.com/2026/07/07/n...

We're inviting writers to review Prudence Leung Kwok Lau & Vanessa Winghei Yeung's 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑟𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑜 𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 (CUHK Press, October 2026). If you're interested in reading this book ahead of its publication, please send an email to editors@asiancha.com. 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

In "Liner Notes", Jeremiah Dutch explores the influence of jazz, Japanese culture, literature, baseball, & his wife’s guidance on his story: "𝐶ℎ𝑎‘s editor-in-chief asked me to write an essay introducing the story. I will not pretend to be an expert on jazz..." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/07/l...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | Jeremiah Dutch reflects on the inspirations behind his story "Cool Jazz at the Dragonfly Club", exploring the influence of jazz, Japanese culture, literature, baseball, and his wife’s musical guidance on its creation. 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/07/l... 。。。。。