𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Kailee Haong Ellis reviews Sarah Wang's 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑆𝑘𝑖𝑛 (Little, Brown and Company, 2026): "Wang brings the typically science-fiction and horror elements of body horror into literary fiction, but not in the ways you might expect." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/08/18/s... 。。。

Very rich and affecting selection of poems by the factory poet Xiao Hai in brand-new translations by @myetcetera.bsky.social -- my favorite is "nonfiction," most of which feels like he is literally spitting the words: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | Elias König discusses Hai Fan’s 𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 (trans. Jeremy Tiang) & Tiang’s own 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦. Examining revolution, memory, political silence, & colonial violence, König shows how both works challenge official narratives. chajournal.com/2026/08/18/a...

Wrote a little on Shuang's new collection for @asiancha.bsky.social ! It's much down my alley.

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𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Seiya Tanase reviews Shuang Xuetao's 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 (Granta Books, 2025), trans. Jeremy Tiang: "In this new collection, Shuang moves further afield, to Beijing and even London. No longer an emerging literary figure, ..." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/08/17/h... 。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | Hilda Wong discusses Kiwi Chow’s film 𝐵𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 (2019): "Can love be real if you love an illusion, a version of someone cast entirely by yourself?" 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/08/17/b... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Seiya Tanase reviews Shuang Xuetao's 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 (Granta Books, 2025), trans. Jeremy Tiang: "In this new collection, Shuang moves further afield, to Beijing and even London. No longer an emerging literary figure, ..." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/08/17/h... 。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | In his new essay "Scattered Thoughts and Admiration for 𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑈𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 and Other Tammythings: A Partial Retrospective", Cyril Camus comments on three books by me published in 2018 and 2019. He also has a plea. 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/08/14/r... 。。。。。

We're inviting writers to review María Teresa Ogliastri's 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑜, trans. Yvette Neisser & Patricia Bejarano Fisher: "... a poetry collection of fictionalized diary entries in the voice of Jiang Qing[.]" MORE: facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | Daniel Cheng's "Home": "She then begins asking about my life. I explain that I also grew up in St. John’s, but that my parents were born in China." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/08/14/d... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 | Jennifer Eagleton on 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑎 (Solaris, 2024), edited and translated. by Xueting Christine Ni: "... an excellent primer on recent Chinese horror and a fascinating way to understand 21st-century Chinese society." 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞: chajournal.com/2026/08/14/s...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 Hantian Zhang on Christina Schwenkel's 𝑆𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚: 𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑠 & 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑃𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝐻𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑖 (University of California Press):"Having experienced much of the pandemic in Hanoi herself & impressed by the Vietnamese government’s success..." chajournal.com/2026/08/10/s...

𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 — 𝐜𝐟𝐩 Special issue of 𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒: 𝐴 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 We are currently inviting abstracts for an upcoming Special Issue on “Reparation in Sinophone Literatures”. writingchinesejournal.org/announcement...

Different ghost rumors, but they are real? Like the KCR train ad in ‘92, POV of the ghost? Evans, Grant. "Ghosts and the new governor: the anthropology of a Hong Kong rumour." Hong Kong. Routledge, 2013. 267-296 scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/c...

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.

𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠 & 𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝: 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐴 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑝 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐶ℎ𝑎: 𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 Date: Saturday 8 August 2026 Time: From 2 PM (HK time) ZOOM LINK (open to all): www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | Laurehl Onyx B. Cabiles on 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 (1998), directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda: "During one of those bed-rotting days, I discovered 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/08/08/a...

𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠 & 𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝: 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐴 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑝 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐶ℎ𝑎: 𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 Date: Sat. 8 August 2026 Time: From 2 PM (Hong Kong time) Presenters: Lesley Cheung & Alexis Lai Discussants: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho & Michael O'Sullivan More information: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

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...

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... 。。。

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...

#histbookchat My latest piece in The Perfect Voice, Mumbai, on China, hostage diplomacy, and the passing of Anthony Grey (1938-2025) - with thanks to Mister Banerjee's editorial red pen! @shoumojitb.bsky.social #sinology #journalism www.theperfectvoice.in/post/anthony...

Anthony Grey: The Reporter Beijing Tried to Break

A young British correspondent sent to decode Mao’s China instead became one of the earliest symbols of hostage diplomacy.Anthony Grey, who passed away last month aged 87, first learned what it meant t...

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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... 。。。。。