Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
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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: t@asiancha.com | Originally from Hong Kong, I'm currently based in Paris.
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Can you think of a Chinese text made entirely of existing materials to present a social or political critique? An example:
docsouth.unc.edu/neh/weld/wel...
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I would love to feature some transformative essays on any subject relevant to Asia on @asiancha.bsky.social this New Year’s Eve. Essays should be between 800 and 6,000 words. Please send your submissions to t@asiancha.com for consideration. Surprise me & our readers. chajournal.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I've tried to send Marriott Guest Service an email explaining that their emails to me contain messages not intended for me, likely sent by mistake, such as:“My sister mentioned this little trail that leads to a great view of the water. It’s supposed to be not too crowded, which is always a plus.” 1/
December 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Jyotirmoy Sil reviews Koushik Goswami’s 𝑅𝑒𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑡 (Routledge, 2023), reading it as a critique of Orientalist myth-making that examines how Western, Indian, and Tibetan literatures have imagined and contested Tibet through fiction, activism, & diasporic writing. chajournal.com/2025/12/29/r...
December 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Jyotirmoy Sil on Koushik Goswami’s 𝑅𝑒𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑡: 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 (Routledge 2023): "In recent decades, Chinese control over the region, which has rendered a large number of Tibetan nationalists homeless, ..."

chajournal.com/2025/12/29/r...
December 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
[𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓] Our resident film critic Nirris Nagendrarajah talks to Kunsang Kyirong, director of 100 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑡 (2025): "... the other focusing on the Tibetan community in Parkdale, a neighbourhood in Toronto known as 'Little Tibet,' and the process surrounding..."

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/25/1...
December 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social—Based on her reading of the 2018 original Korean edition of Baek Sehee’s 𝐼 𝑊𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝐷𝑖𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑊𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝐸𝑎𝑡 𝑇𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑘𝑏𝑜𝑘𝑘𝑖, Hana Kim writes: "... a quiet statement about how despair can coexist with the most basic human impulse to continue."

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/29/t...
December 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I would love to feature some transformative essays on any subject relevant to Asia on @asiancha.bsky.social this New Year’s Eve. Essays should be between 800 and 6,000 words. Please send your submissions to t@asiancha.com for consideration. Surprise me & our readers. chajournal.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Daniel Gauss argues that restrictive conservation has stripped this eighth-century Javanese monument of meaning, converting a humane educational journey into managed tourism.

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/28/b...
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December 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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In 2012, @asiancha.bsky.social’s @myetcetera.bsky.social, wrote in the editorial for the journal’s fifth anniversary issue: "... we could have been any organism in our past lives: ants, bees, bats, small fishes, bacteria. But now, now, in this life, we are humans."

chajournal.com/2025/12/26/k...
December 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐖𝐀𝐍. We'd like to publish reviews of these books in 2026. If you'd like to engage with any of these titles, please send an email to editors@asiancha.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social—Madeleine Slavick on Xi Xi's 𝑀𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 (Giramondo, 2024), trans. Jennifer Feeley: "I have never read a book like this, in which the writer invites the reader to skip to another chapter that may be of greater interest, [...]"

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/25/n...
December 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
[𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓] In this conversation, resident film critic of @asiancha.bsky.social Nirris Nagendrarajah and Kunsang Kyirong, director of 100 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑡, reflect on memory, belonging, and the quiet rhythms of Parkdale.

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/25/1...
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[TIFF 2025] “The Archivist’s Film: A Conversation on Kunsang Kyirong’s 100 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑡” by Nirris Nagendrarajah & Kunsang Kyirong
TIFF 2025 ▞ 10. The Archivist’s Film: A Conversation on Kunsang Kyirong’s 100 Sunset▞ 9. She Was Screaming into Silence: A Conversation on Cai Shangjun’s The Sun Rises On Us All▞ 8. You Don’t…
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December 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒—Oliver Farry on 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝐷𝑜𝑔 (2024), dir. Guan Hu: "The casting of Jia Zhangke as the chief dog catcher Uncle Yao is ingenious. Jia’s presence carries an intertextual weight that goes well beyond cameo novelty."

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/25/b...
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December 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒—Oliver Farry on Guan Hu's 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝐷𝑜𝑔 (2024):"The suggestion that such a remote desert town might have any meaningful connection to China’s hosting of the Olympics is probably part of the film’s point."@oliverfarry.com

chajournal.com/2025/12/25/black-dog
December 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒—Oliver Farry writes about 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 (2025), directed by Bi Gan: "In the future, humans no longer dream, having relinquished the ability in exchange for longer life." @oliverfarry.com

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/25/r...
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December 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social—Susan Blumberg-Kason on Gigi L. Leung’s 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 (Riverhead Books, February 2026), trans. Jennifer Feeley. "[I]t becomes clear that Leung has crafted these stories as a love letter to the younger generations in Hong Kong[.]"

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/25/e...
December 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍—We're glad pleased to present Chi Ta-wei’s 1994 short story, “Beneath His Eyes, in Your Palm, a Red, Red Rose Is About to Bloom”, trans. Nathaniel Isaacson: "... a queer, prophetic, postmodern, posthuman, drug-fuelled cyberpunk pastiche..."

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/24/b...
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December 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
[𝐍𝐄𝐖 Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦] Susan Blumberg-Kason writes about Claire Lee's 𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒 (2025): "... a striking book of short prose that explores everyday objects, events, and places across the globe."

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/23/t...
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December 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social—Lorence Lozano examines Prabda Yoon’s 2019 short film 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑛𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑠, analysing its depiction of satellite technology as a means of historical erasure: "... the military orders Pang to erase them from the system[.]"

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/23/u...
December 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social—Yiwen Liu's essay critiques popular portrayals of the Evenki as a utopian minority by analysing Chi Zijian’s novel 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝑛 (Vintage, 2014), trans. Bruce Humes, & Gu Tao’s documentary 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑎 (2014).

chajournal.com/2025/12/22/l...
December 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Good article. Can't wait to pick up the book.
. @susanbk.bsky.social on @josephtorigian.bsky.social's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦’𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡: "Torigian reflects on Xi Zhongxun’s post–Cultural Revolution years—a single paragraph that encapsulates his decades-long career in the CCP..."

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡 & 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰: chajournal.com/2025/07/16/x...
December 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
. @susanbk.bsky.social on @josephtorigian.bsky.social's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦’𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡: "Torigian reflects on Xi Zhongxun’s post–Cultural Revolution years—a single paragraph that encapsulates his decades-long career in the CCP..."

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡 & 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰: chajournal.com/2025/07/16/x...
December 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Jack Greenberg reviews Ch’oe Myŏngik's 𝑃𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 (@columbiaup.bsky.social, 2024), trans. Janet Poole: "The tragedy of there being two Koreas is the reason that Ch’oe’s reputation disappeared and that his creativity has been ignored for so many decades."

chajournal.com/2024/03/13/p...
December 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM