𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠 & 𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝: 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐴 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑝 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐶ℎ𝑎: 𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 Call for Speakers We're inviting people to share their experience of living in and knowing both Hong Kong and Ireland. www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | In “No Moral at Its End", Matt Reeck reflects on his first-ever published work of fiction, "Three Travelling Portraits: India", also published in 𝐶ℎ𝑎: "I was interested in depicting some of the sexual tension that I had..." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/14/n... 。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 | We are very pleased to publish Matt Reeck's first-ever published work of fiction, “Three Traveling Portraits: India”. Matt also provides an accompanying personal essay, “No Moral at Its End". 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/14/t... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | Drawing on memories of a small-town internet café, Laurehl Onyx B. Cabiles reflects on friendship, film, piracy, and poverty. "There was a well-known internet café in our municipality. Like all other small businesses, [...]" 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/14/i... 。。。

Sometimes, we make selected journal pieces available as downloadable PDFs. When you see the PDF icon, you can download a printer-friendly version of the piece. PDFs are provided only for selected articles, at the editor's discretion. 𝐓𝐑𝐘: chajournal.com/2026/07/11/b... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 | We are very pleased to publish Christian Wilken's first-ever published work of fiction,“The Room After the Typhoon”. Christian on the story: "... began with a memory from my year as an exchange student in Okinawa,from 2013 to 2014." chajournal.com/2026/07/13/t...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | In five linked poetic vignettes, Marsha McDonald writes about bears, boars, monkeys, mice and cats across Japan. "Other animals often know things we humans don’t, or that we have forgotten. I wonder what the bears know?" 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/11/b... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Fathima M reviews Salma's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 (Simon & Schuster, 2025): "When the desires of women are voiced, they become stories of longing, frustration, silence and oppression, among other things." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/11/d... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 Yun Li’s essay was originally written in 𝑋𝑖𝑛𝑚𝑖𝑛 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠. She translated the piece into English herself: "I wrote the piece because Saigon struck me as a city with both historical depth and an unexpectedly romantic undertone." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/09/s...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 | In this lively interview, Sadie Kaye talks to Lindsey McAlister about swapping thirty years of directing Hong Kong's youth arts scene for painting. 𝐖𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: chajournal.com/2026/07/09/l... 。。。。。

Inspired by Bo Wang's short film 𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐺ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 & Yoko Ogawa's "Welcome to the Museum of Torture," from 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒: 𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠, @myetcetera.bsky.social wrote a piece on hauntology, ghosts, & hair, the body's strange exception: dead & living simultaneously. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 Swapna Sanchita writes about 𝑃𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑧𝑎ℎ (1972), dir. Kamal Amrohi: "At 47, living through a career, a marriage and the chaotic balancing act of being a so-called modern woman in India, 𝑃𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑧𝑎ℎ... completely broke my heart." chajournal.com/2026/07/08/t...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social: Susan Blumberg-Kason on Steven Schwankert's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑥, highlighting how he dispels enduring 𝑇𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐 myths about Chinese passengers, traces survivor Fong Wing Sun's remarkable life, and situates the book within his wider maritime scholarship. chajournal.com/2026/07/08/t...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | In her new contribution, Rituparna Mukherjee compares two Delhi noir novels, Sengupta's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 and Roy 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟, whose murder plots lay bare caste privilege, patriarchal violence and religious xenophobia 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/08/i... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 Hilda Wong reviews Mimi Kwa's 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐾𝑤𝑎 (ABC Books, 2021): /「家家有本難念的經」: “Every family has a scripture that is too difficult to chant”. Growing up in Hong Kong,this proverb has been woven into our collective consciousness[.] / 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/07/k...

[REVIEW] “The Colonial Gaze at the Dinner Table: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue” by Jennifer Eagleton chajournal.com/2026/07/05/t...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 | Vanessa Winghei Yeung draws our attention to Fung Hon Shing's 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 (𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒) 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑡:"In just under ten minutes, viewers are given the privilege of following HK newts’ trajectories both underwater and on land." chajournal.com/2026/07/07/n...

We're inviting writers to review Prudence Leung Kwok Lau & Vanessa Winghei Yeung's 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑟𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑜 𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 (CUHK Press, October 2026). If you're interested in reading this book ahead of its publication, please send an email to editors@asiancha.com. 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

In "Liner Notes", Jeremiah Dutch explores the influence of jazz, Japanese culture, literature, baseball, & his wife’s guidance on his story: "𝐶ℎ𝑎‘s editor-in-chief asked me to write an essay introducing the story. I will not pretend to be an expert on jazz..." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/07/l...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | Jeremiah Dutch reflects on the inspirations behind his story "Cool Jazz at the Dragonfly Club", exploring the influence of jazz, Japanese culture, literature, baseball, and his wife’s musical guidance on its creation. 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/07/l... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 | Set in contemporary Japan, Jeremiah Dutch's story “Cool Jazz at the Dragonfly Club” portrays the monotony of corporate life, urban loneliness, and the pursuit of personal fulfilment through cooking and music. 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/07/d... 。。。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐋 In “Meetings with Hong Kong Buddhist Nuns”, Simon Patton looks at how HK Buddhist nuns are described in memoirs and travel writing by Martin Booth, G.S.P. Heywood, & Christopher Rand. He mixes these accounts with his own memories. chajournal.com/2026/07/06/b...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Jennifer Eagleton on Booker Prize-winning 𝑇𝑎𝑖𝑤𝑎𝑛 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, trans. Lin King: "... the act of consuming, exoticising, and fundamentally misunderstanding a colonised culture when one travels through it." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/05/t... 。。。

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Abhinav Tulachan reviews Jhumpa Lahiri's 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 (1999): "South Asian countries have always had a tendency to drive their youth abroad, having even glorified the practice by instilling within our minds..." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/05/m... 。。。。。

[𝐈𝐍𝐕𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍] Has anyone never published a short story before, in any language, and would like to submit one to @asiancha? We'are looking for stories that are set in Asia or explore Asian themes. This is a one-off invitation. Deadline: 10 July 2026. Email: editors@asiancha.com ❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Arun Budhathoki reviews Yuyutsu Sharma's 𝐼𝑛 𝐺𝑜𝑑’𝑠 𝑀𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑦 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 (Nirala Publications, 2026):"Yuyutsu Sharma transforms the experience of the pandemic into a lyrical and deeply human meditation on loss, survival, memory, and faith." chajournal.com/2026/07/03/m...

We're inviting writers to review 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛: 𝐴𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑒𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑆𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑠 (OUP, 2026), trans. Matthieu Felt. "The first volume begins with the creation of the universe and the divine genealogy that underpins imperial legitimacy." 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 Jennifer Eagleton reviews Ildikó Enyedi's film 𝑆𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑, then reflects on her own loving bond with Hong Kong's trees,including her tongue-in-cheek campaign to have the city name its numbered trees rather than just code them. 𝐄𝐍𝐉𝐎𝐘: chajournal.com/2026/07/03/s...

We are very pleased to announce that we have nominated two works of creative nonfiction for the 2027 edition of 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑡 anthology. Congratulations to Gutierrez Mangansakan II and Matt Turner. Good luck! Want to read these two pieces? 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄: chajournal.com/2026/07/03/b... 。。。。。

We are very pleased to announce that we have nominated the following two stories for the 2027 edition of 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑡 anthology. Congratulations to Sajita & Kathy. Good luck! — “Eighteen Steps” by Sajita Nair — “Sweating Labour, Angry Tears” by Kathy Nguyen 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄: chajournal.com/2026/07/03/b...