Is there a database of films/documentaries about the Hong Kong protests?

(Picture by Oliver Farry.)

Daniel Dennett (28th March 1942 - 19th April 2024)

RIP

Dennett on how to criticise wisely

🧵 More about China. We'd love to publish reviews of these books on China published between 2022 and 2024 in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal this year. If you're interested in reading any of these books, please email tCha: An Asian Literary Journal.com for more information.

And this. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal's JUST ANOTHER DAY project (4 June 2023), which features entries by 54 people on that day narrating what they were doing/thinking. chajournal.blog/2023/05/30/day/

Would love to see these. How?

Student protesters, May 22, 1989, Tiananmen Square. Sometimes, when I close my eyes, I still see this photo and feel their hope.

My book, Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility between Assimilation and Oppression, is out with Illinois Press ! My argument for the book is simple: Asian Americans are not a coherent racial population but it's made so through the psychological technologies of racecraft.🧵

A mid-week pick-me-up.

She and Her Cat by 新海誠 & Nakagawa Naruki (tr. by Ginny Tapley Takemori) is a heartwarming read about how lives - human and animal - are intertwined in simple yet life-affirming ways Penguin Books UK #Japaneselit

𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐌𝐒—Hong Kong-based print bilingual poetry magazine vvpoetry is currently accepting submissions of new poems in English or newly translated into English on FRAME for a forthcoming issue. Closing: 30 April 2024. Guidelines: facebook.com/VoiceAndVerseP…

'With his first photobook Hong Kong, The New York Times’ photo editor Mikko Takkunen captured one of the world’s greatest metropolises during a time of political uncertainty and the pandemic.' kehrerverlag.com/en/mikko-takku…

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒] Oliver Farry on 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡 (2023), dr. Babak Jalali, about a writer of fortune messages: '... realistic in the way it foregrounds the deadening boredom of so many immigrant experiences[.]' 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.blog/2024/04/17/fre…

'Fortune messages [...] shouldn't be too lucky. They shouldn't be too unlucky. They shouldn't be too original. They shouldn't be too obvious. They shouldn't be too short. They shouldn't be too long and so on. You get the point?' —Ricky, in Fremont, 2023. chajournal.blog/2024/04/17/fre…

▞ 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒: 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝐹𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
By Eric Reinders
bloomsbury.com/uk/reading-tol…

'... a departure from the norm that is not often seen in Hong Kong cinema. Provocative and funny, it brings out the absurdity of Hong Kong: plagued by loneliness, frustration, and lust.' chajournal.blog/2024/04/17/lat…

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒] Octavia Chen on Wong Ping’s 𝑆𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑦 (2021): 'To put it bluntly, it’s about a lonely urban man seeking freedom by obsessing over varicose veins on a woman’s calf[.]'

chajournal.blog/2024/04/17/lat…

𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐊𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐒 (published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press) - 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬

Hong Kong Studies is now accepting articles and reviews written in English or traditional Chinese for a general issue of the journal.

facebook.com/hongkongstudie…

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒] Kevin McGeary writes about Yangsze Choo’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑥 𝑊𝑖𝑓𝑒 (@HenryHolt, 2024): 'It has an absorbing plot, albeit one that is as unhurried as the doomed society that it depicts.'

READ: chajournal.blog/2024/04/17/fox…

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] Sabina Knight (@SabinaKnight1) reviews 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑒𝑖𝑗𝑖𝑛𝑔 (@commapress, 2023), edited by Bingbing Shi: 'The volume showcases ten important writers and ten assured translators.

READ: chajournal.blog/2024/04/10/boo…

Have written this book review for Michael C. Davis’s book “Freedom Undone” in this new platform #TheHongKonger
hongkonger.world/2024/03/20/boo…

Chinese writers have long used fiction to process trauma. In these five newly translated titles, the trend continues in modern settings, from sexual abuse in Taiwan to linguistic displacement in Hong Kong.
Read Jack Hargreaves' list:
chinabooksreview.com/2024/04/16/tra…