We are now making plans for publishing reviews on Cha: An Asian Literary Journal‘s Cha Review of Books and Films in 2022-2025. If you would like to review one (or more) of the following titles, please send an email to Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (t@asiancha.com) to discuss more. If you have a book you’d like us to review, please write to either Tammy or Eddie Tay (eddie@asiancha.com). We 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
Last updated: 1 December 2022
▣ Bloom & Other Poems
By Xi Chuan, translated by Lucas Klein
▣ A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts
By Wang Yin, translated by Andrea Lingenfelter
▣ Ghosts City Sea
By Wang Yin, translated by Andrea Lingenfelter
▣ The Impossible City
By Karen Cheung
▣ The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang
By Perhat Tursun, translated by Darren Byler and Anonymous
▣ Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics
Edited by Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao
▣ The Organization of Distance: Poetry, Translation, Chineseness
By Lucas Klein
▣ A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
By Dung Kai-Cheung, translated into Chinese by Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson
▣ Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital
By Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
▣ Pilgrim
By Lisabelle Tay
▣ Postscripts from City Burning
By Sam Cheuk
▣ Translational Politics in Southeast Asian Literatures: Contesting Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Edited by Grace V. S. Chin
▣ Karma
By Yin Lichuan, translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
▣ Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw
By Hua Li
▣ Tower
By Bae Myung-hoon, translated from the Korean by Sung Ryu
▣ Besiege me
By Nicholas Wong
▣ Reflections on Tsuda Umeko: Pioneer of Women’s Education in Japan
By Ōba Minako, translated by Tani Yū
▣ Japanese Art in Perspective: East-West Encounters
By Takashina Shūji, translated by Matt Treyvaud
▣ Well-Versed: Exploring Modern Japanese Haiku
By Ozawa Minoru, translated by Janine Beichman, with photography by Maeda Shinzō & Akira
▣ Paths of Justice
By Johannes M. M. Chan
▣ Yingelishi: Jonathan Stalling’s Interlanguage Art
Edited by Jonathan Stalling
▣ Faraway
By Lo Yi-Chin, translated by Jeremy Tiang
▣ The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation
By JaHyun Kim Haboush, edited by William J. Haboush and Jisoo M. Kim
▣ Lockdown Lovers
By Michael O’Sullivan
▣ The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
By Tonio Andrade
▣ The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century
By Bruce Dickson
▣ In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan
By Ōgimachi Machiko, translated by G. G. Rowley
▣ Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
By Adeeb Khalid
▣ Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy
By Joseph S. Alter
▣ Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language
By James Griffiths
▣ To the Warm Horizon
By Choi Jin-young, translated from the Korean by Soje
▣ A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present
By Rey Chow
▣ Endless Blue Sky
By Lee Hyoseok, translated from the Korean by Steven D. Capener
▣ Hunter School
By Sakinu Ahronglong, translated from the Chinese by Darryl Sterk
▣ The Four Colors
By Ankur
▣ Writing Poetry, Surviving War: The Works of Refugee Scholar-Official Chen Yuyi (1090–1139)
By Yugen Wang
▣ Not Written Words
By Xi Xi, translated from Chinese by Jennifer Feeley
▣ Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball Cultural Representations of Japan’s National Pastime
By Christopher T. Keaveney
▣ Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies
Edited by Yuan Shu, Otto Heim, and Kendall Johnson
▣ Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry
Edited by Ping Wang and Nicholas Morrow Williams
▣ The Cosmopolitan Dream Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age
Edited by Derek Hird and Geng Song
▣ Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature
Edited by Yifeng Sun and Chris Song
▣ A Flutter in the Colony
By Sandeep Ray
▣ The Indispensable History of the New Territories
By Patrick H. Hase
▣ 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
▣ 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
▣ Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes
By John Wei
▣ 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
By Harshana Rambukwella
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▣ Professor Su Jing’an in His Later Years
By Dong Jun, translated from Chinese by Sid Gulinck
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▣ The Road Home
By Ai Wei, translated from Chinese by Alice Xin Liu
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▣ 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
By Paul Letters [LINK: http://bit.ly/2kj1vxz%5D
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▣ Great Leaps: Finding home in a changing China
By Colin Thomas Flahive [LINK: http://bit.ly/2kiQqfP%5D
▣ Forty Nights
By Chris Thrall
▣ Flash Cards (便条集)
By Yu Jian, translated from Chinese by Wang Ping and Ron Padgett [LINK: http://bit.ly/2Gj7VUX]
▣ I Can Almost See the Clouds of Dust (我幾乎看到滾滾塵埃)
By Yu Xiang, translated from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain [LINK: http://bit.ly/2Gj7VUX]
▣ Double Shadow (重影)
By Ouyang Jianghe, translated from Chinese by Austin Woerner [LINK: http://bit.ly/2Gj7VUX]
▣ Wind Says (風在說)
By Bai Hua, translated from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
▣ A Phone Call from Dalian (来自大连的电话)
By Han Dong, translated from Chinese by Nicky Harman, Maghiel van Crevel, Yu Yan Chen, Naikan Tao, Tony Prince & Michael Day
▣ Something Crosses My Mind (有甚么在我心里一过)
By Wang Xiaoni, translated from Chinese by Eleanor Goodman
▣ 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]
▣ 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
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