We are now making plans for publishing reviews on Cha: An Asian Literary Journal‘s Cha Review of Books and Films in 2020-2022. If you would like to review one (or more) of the following titles for us, please send an email to either Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (tammyh@hkbu.edu.hk) or Eddie Tay (eddie@asiancha.com) to discuss more. If you have a book you’d like us to review, please also write to either of us. We also welcome suggestions for books to review in the journal. Please read our recent reviews HERE.

NOTE: Cha is an Asia-focused literary publication. 

The list below is constantly updated. The new titles will be added to the top, while books that have been ‘taken’ will be moved to the second part of the list and remain there until a review of it is published.

THE LIST OF BOOKS
Available for review

▣ The Indispensable History of the New Territories
By Patrick H. Hase

▣ Not Written Words 
By Xi Xi, translated from Chinese by Jennifer Feeley

▣ Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China 
By Hui Faye Xiao

▣ The Organization of Distance: Poetry, Translation, Chineseness
By Lucas Klein

▣ Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology
By Rohan B. E. Price

▣  Minjian: The Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals
By Sebastian Veg

▣ The Appearing Demos: Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement
By Pang Lai-kwan

▣ Home Remedies 
By Xuan Juliana Wang

▣ Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs
Edited by Maghiel van Crevel and Lucas Klein

▣ Remapping the Sinophone: The Cultural Production of Chinese-Language Cinema in Singapore and Malaya before and during the Cold War
By Wai-Siam Hee

▣ Emperor Qianlong’s Hidden Treasures Reconsidering the Collection of the Qing Imperial Household
By Nicole T. C. Chiang

▣ Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten
By Travis S. K. Kong

▣ Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes
By John Wei

▣ In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire: Imperial Violence, State Destruction, and the Reordering of Modern East Asia
Edited by Barak Kushner and Andrew Levidis

▣ Lens on China: Intermediate and Advanced Readings on Film for Learning Chinese (影像中国：现代汉语中高级电影读本)
By Jing Wang and Xi Tian

▣ The Unruly New Territories Small Houses, Ancestral Estates, Illegal Structures, and Other Customary Land Practices of Rural Hong Kong
By Malcolm Merry

▣ American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan
By Elisheva A. Perelman

▣ The Politics of Higher Education The Imperial University in Northern Song China
By Chu Ming-kin

▣ A Sensational Encounter with High Socialist China
By Paul G. Pickowicz

▣ The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon 
By William C. Hedberg

▣ The Original Meaning of the Yijing: Commentary on the Scripture of Change
By Zhu Xi, translated and edited by Joseph A. Adler [LINK: http://bit.ly/2NcFMSi]

▣ Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature
Edited by Yifeng Sun and Chris Song [LINK: http://bit.ly/2FBlMpI]

▣ The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity: A Cultural Genealogy of Sinhala Nationalism
By Harshana Rambukwella

▣ Professor Su Jing’an in His Later Years
By Dong Jun, translated from Chinese by Sid Gulinck

▣ The Road Home
By Ai Wei, translated from Chinese by Alice Xin Liu

▣ Fleeing Xinhe Street
By Zhe Gui, translated from Chinese by Ana Padilla Fornieles

▣ The Debt Collector
By Wang Shou, translated from Chinese by John Frederick Franz

▣ Forty Nights
By Chris Thrall

▣ October Dedications (十月的獻詩)
By Mang Ke, translated from Chinese by Lucas Klein, Yibing Huang and Jonathan Stalling [LINK: http://bit.ly/2Gj7VUX]

▣ Flash Cards (便条集)
By Yu Jian, translated from Chinese by Wang Ping and Ron Padgett [LINK: http://bit.ly/2Gj7VUX]

▣ The History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera
By Dung Kai-cheung, translated into English by Yau Wai-ping

▣ The Assassin Hou Hsiao-hsien’s World of Tang China (刺客聶隱娘：侯孝賢的大唐中國)
Edited by Peng Hsiao-yen

▣ Tharlo: Short Story and Film Script 
By Pema Tseden, translated into English by Jessica Yeung, also with a critical introduction by Jessica Yeung and Wai-ping Yau.

▣ The Tale of Cho Ung: A Classic of Vengeance, Loyalty, and Romance
Translated by Sookja Cho
One of the most widely read and beloved stories of Chosŏn Korea, offering a glimpse into the vernacular and popular literature of the late Chosŏn period, exemplifying the types of stories and heroes that were favoured by its reading public. [LINK: http://bit.ly/2CJBafl]

▣ Sell Your Bones
By Reid Mitchell [LINK: http://bit.ly/2NShuAF]

▣ The Best Asian Short Stories
Edited by Monideepa Sahu [LINK: http://bit.ly/2XY0tK2%5D

▣ B-sides and Backslides: 1986-2018
By Felix Cheong [LINK: http://bit.ly/2Ma9qsF%5D

▣ Raising China’s Revolutionaries: Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s
By Margaret Mih Tillman [LINK: http://bit.ly/2JGeWU8]

▣ Art Critique: Selected Writings of K. B. Goel
Edited by Shruti Parthasarathy. Foreword by Geeta Kapur [Link: http://bit.ly/2SbD2WG]

▣ The Cultural Economy of Land: Rural Bengal, Circa 1860–1940
By Suhita Sinha Roy. Edited by Mallarika Sinha Roy [Link: http://bit.ly/2rNwvWG]

▣ Common Life: Drawings and Poems
Ho Chee Lick (artist) and Anne Lee Tzu Pheng (poet) [LINK: http://bit.ly/2K1QN7A%5D

▣ Indelible City
By Chew Yi Wei [LINK: http://bit.ly/2Ob5P04%5D

▣ Rain Tree
By Mahita Vas [LINK: http://bit.ly/2GojXwF%5D

▣ China Sketchbook
By Chip Dameron [LINK: http://bit.ly/2Lzwxxa%5D

▣ Non Sequitur Syndrome
By Goro Takano [LINK: http://bit.ly/2M4iLlr%5D

NO LONGER AVAILABLE
(a partial list)

IN PROGRESS

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LATER

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◉ [Reviewer: Jordan Smith] Away With Words by Henrik Hoeg
◉ [Reviewer: Lucas Klein] Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China by Leta Hong Fincher