Thanks to the urging of a number of friends, I now have a @bluesky account. Find me there?

RT @myetcetera: 🧵𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦. We'd love to publish reviews of these in @asiancha. They explore ecofeminism through postcolonial,….

[𝗡𝗘𝗪 @asiancha 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦] Fathima M on Saad Omar Khan’s 𝐷𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛 (Buckrider Books, 2025): "Life in Canada feels, for them, like inhabiting a stranger’s body.". ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞:

𝐍𝐄𝐖@asiancha𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Heather Y. Kim on Winifred Dongyi Wang’s 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝑛: "a young Chinese woman leaves Beijing for New York. Yet her childhood in Beijing haunts her,so that each step she attempts to take forward. ".

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Jason Low reviews Daryl Yam’s 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟, 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟: "In late March 1996, an intruder—tracked by millions around the globe—raced across the sky. This interloper, discovered by an amateur astronomer in Japan. ".

𝑷𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒄𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒚. 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐌𝐒—Voice & Verse invites poets/translators worldwide to submit original poems & poems newly translated into English for our upcoming issue themed 𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗠.

Anglophone & Sinophone. Call for Abstracts—Deadline: September 7, 2025. Explores the entangled, and at times antagonistic, relationship between the 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 and the 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 in the study of HK’s cultural & literary fields.

𝐍𝐄𝐖@asiancha𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Wayne Wong reviews Jeffrey Wasserstrom's 𝑉𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑙: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔, (Brixton Ink, 2025): "What began as a modest act of documentation now reads as diasporic memory work[.]". ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝:

“Democracy Road” © Jennifer Anne Eagleton. NEW @asiancha: Jennifer Eagleton reviews Ming-sho Ho’s 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑒𝑖𝑗𝑖𝑛𝑔’𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛 (Temple University Press, 2018).

𝐍𝐄𝐖@asiancha𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Jennifer Eagleton on Ming-sho Ho’s 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑒𝑖𝑗𝑖𝑛𝑔’𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛: ". draws on a wealth of materials—published works, films, social media,speeches,art, & his own in-depth interviews.".

𝐍𝐄𝐖@asiancha𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Loritta Chan on Ee Ling Quah's 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐷𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛 𝐹𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑚 (2025): ". at once a searing critique and a therapeutic embrace from a sister who reassures migrant Asian women working in Eurocentric parts of the world.".

[𝐍𝐄𝐖@asiancha𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] Kabir Deb on Alvin Pang's 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝐿𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑎 (Red River Press, 2025): ". honours both the craftsmanship of poetry and the emotional resonance, elemental precision, and essence we seek in verse.".

𝐍𝐄𝐖@asiancha𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 Ananya Singh on Kyung-Ran Jo’s 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑓𝑖𝑠ℎ (Astra House 2025), trans. Chi-Young Kim: ". a taut, deceptively quiet novel, structured as a contrapuntal meditation on grief, disconnection, and stillness." @anannnya_s.

RT @chrissonghk: @raagatodi @myetcetera Basically it says the person in the painting went to New York for a conference and met a lady. He….

RT @ColeHenri: I would be so grateful for help translating the text around this image?

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, Issue 85, Hong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine

RT @derJamesJackson: Ai Wei Wei was commissioned to reflect on Germany for Zeit Magazine, but they seemingly didn’t like his reflections an….

Does anyone know if Verso books are translated into Chinese and which presses? For example, I am wondering if PLANET OF SLUMS by Mike Davis, has been translated into Chinese.

𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠.11-12 December 2025 | Online. This @hongkongstudies symposium invites papers from across the humanities and social sciences that examine the idea and function of the archive. 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥:

RT @eyeonaxis_: Nancy Sheung self portrait. Hong Kong, 1960-70s

RT @CNMNguyen: Very sad to hear that the only traditional Chinese-language newspaper in Vietnam (“Saigon Liberation”) will no longer go on….