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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

@myetcetera.bsky.social

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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: [email protected] | Originally from Hong Kong, I'm currently based in Paris.

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · Dec 11

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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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 8h

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] In Matthew Ordoñez argues that despite its groundbreaking use of transgender actors and its intention to promote understanding, 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑎 (2025, dir. Kevin Alambra) ultimately reveals deep ethical and representational flaws.

⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/10/13/w...
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 9h

𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐓𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝑶𝒘𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 (chajournal.blog/category/owl... 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 "𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠" 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬. 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐞. "The city you grew up in is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean."

⧉ www.graywolfpress.org/books/city-w...

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 1d

In his new contribution to @asiancha.bsky.social, Kabir Deb writes about translators' vital contributions to global literature remain undervalued, despite shaping authors' international recognition and success. chajournal.blog/2025/10/12/n...

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 1d

𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓: About a year ago, we announced the appointment of Eric Yip as our Poetry Editor. We are now delighted to share that Nicole Liu will be joining the editorial team of @asiancha.bsky.social as Fiction Editor. Welcome aboard, Nicole!

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 2d

Just days after the release of the new VOICE & VERSE call on 𝔸ℙ𝕆ℂ𝔸𝕃𝕐ℙ𝕊𝔼, we have received many submissions, of which several have been accepted for publication. Here's the first. www.facebook.com/share/p/1BYw...

Accepting submissions now. Early entries of poems and translations are encouraged.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 2d

its a roguelike called samsara and there is only one way to quit

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 2d

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 2d

𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐃—We are delighted to welcome back Cyril Camus with his most ambitious contribution to date, a review of Johannes Schönherr’s 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝐾𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎. It is a sustained exploration of how a nation constructs and mythologises itself through the moving image.

⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/10/11/k...

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 2d

𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄: 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐟𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧, published in 𝑈𝑠𝑎𝑤𝑎 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤’s 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐱 series, is a work of witness that gathers the voices of Afghan women writing through fear, exile and erasure. Curated by 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐡𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐰𝐡𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐚.

⧉ 𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄: usawa.in/matchbox/edi...
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 3d

⧉ 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆: 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒄𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒂
𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐄 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐤𝐞𝐫
"...sociopolitical project of 'learning to love' at the New Life Center for Holistic Growth, a popular “mind-body-spirit” bookstore..."
press.umich.edu/Books/L/Lear...

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 3d

⧉ 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒔: 𝑰𝒏𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔
𝐁𝐲 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐮𝐧
"Wanning Sun critically analyzes narratives about love, romance, and intimacy in contemporary Chinese public discourses."
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/love-trou...

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 3d

⧉ 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒂: 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑨𝑰 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔
𝐁𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐠
"[E]xamines love, affection, and emotions in China from Maoist to contemporary China, focusing on the intersections with politics, economics, gender, class, race and technology."
www.bloomsbury.com/in/love-and-...

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 3d

⧉ 𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒎, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒂
𝐁𝐲 𝐆𝐮𝐨 𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐠 郭婷
"[T]he first systematic examination of the ways in which the notion of love has been introduced, adapted, and engineered as a political discourse..."
www.routledge.com/Religion-Sec...

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 3d

🥰 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄. These recent scholarly books reveal how love in China is shaped by political ideals, social inequalities and the shifting ethics of modern life. If you would like to read and review any of these titles for @asiancha.bsky.social, please email [email protected] for further discussion.

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 4d

Pictured: More than ten years ago, I was reading one of the books by László Krasznahorkai in Paris. I also love Seiobo There Below & Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heaven, as well as The Turin Horse, dir. Béla Tarr, w. a screenplay by László Krasznahorkai &Tarr. www.facebook.com/AsianCha.Jou...

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 4d

The new Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai has a pretty interesting novel about traveling to meet contemporary Chinese poets (Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, others) called _Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens_. Lucas Klein's review in @asiancha.bsky.social here: www.asiancha.com/content/view...

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Taken as Strictly True: Neuroscience and Sinology in Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens

Cha is a Hong Kong-based online literary quarterly journal dedicated to publishing quality poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction, drama, and reviews written in English, as well as photography an...

www.asiancha.com

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 4d

𝑪𝑨𝑳𝑳 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑷𝑶𝑬𝑴𝑺—Hong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine 聲韻詩刊 invites submissions of previously unpublished poems in English and poems newly translated from other languages into English exploring "Apocalypse" in its 𝐆𝐋𝐎𝐁𝐀𝐋, 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒. Guidelines: www.facebook.com/VoiceAndVers...

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 4d

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 to László Krasznahorkai, awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

While most of Krasznahorkai’s fiction is set in Europe or expresses more universal existential themes, a few of his works reach out to East Asia with striking intensity.

www.facebook.com/AsianCha.Jou...

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 4d

𝗡𝗘𝗪 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪—Abhik Ganguly on Kiriti Sengupta’s 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑠 (Transcendent Zero Press), which "traces the career of a polyglot Indian Bengali poet & the quiet arc of sensibility that binds Vedāntic and Tantric spiritual influences, ..."

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/09/k...

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 4d

𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐌𝐒—Hong Kong's 聲韻詩刊 Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine invites submissions of previously unpublished poems in English and poems newly translated from other languages into English exploring "Apocalypse" in its global, collective dimensions. www.facebook.com/share/p/1HzF...

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 5d

𝗡𝗘𝗪 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪—Nazir Wani reviews Mallika Bhaumik’s 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐 𝐽𝑎𝑟 (Red River Press, 2025): "A life worth writing about need not be perfect or prosperous."

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/08/m...
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 5d

𝑇𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 unfurls a nightmarish vision of lovers dissolving into a single body. When it opened in China on 19 September, the film was reshaped: not only were its sex scenes excised, but an AI face-swapping sleight turned a same-sex wedding into a heterosexual union.

www.facebook.com/AsianCha.Jou...

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 5d

[𝗡𝗘𝗪 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪—In Charlie Ng’s review of Hon Lai-chu’s 𝑀𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 (translated by Jacqueline Leung, Two Lines Press, 2025) and Michael Shanks’s 𝑇𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 (2025), the search for one’s “other half” is reimagined as both yearning & undoing.

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/08/b...

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 6d

[@asiancha.bsky.social 𝗘𝗫𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗩𝗘—𝗧𝗜𝗙𝗙 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱] We're pleased to present a conversation between our resident film critic, Nirris Nagendrarajah, and director Kalainithan Kalaichelvan. Their exchange explores 𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑦's defiant reimagining of the Tamil matriarch.

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/07/k...
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 6d

Want to know more. Can you give us some examples?

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 6d

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—In this conversation with Sadie Kaye, 77-year-old Hong Kong artist George Tang Kwok-wing reflects on his seven decades in art in the lead-up to his participation in Fine Art Asia 2025.

⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/07/g...
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