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: [email protected] | Originally from Hong Kong, I'm currently based in Paris.
Are you ready??? Based on very real events.
/ Most residents in this particular old Sham Shui Po building, a tong lau typical of the district’s earlier decades, heard the chopping sound. /
AHHHHH: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
/ Most residents in this particular old Sham Shui Po building, a tong lau typical of the district’s earlier decades, heard the chopping sound. /
AHHHHH: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Are you ready??? Based on very real events.
/ Most residents in this particular old Sham Shui Po building, a tong lau typical of the district’s earlier decades, heard the chopping sound. /
AHHHHH: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
/ Most residents in this particular old Sham Shui Po building, a tong lau typical of the district’s earlier decades, heard the chopping sound. /
AHHHHH: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Me, ten years ago. 🥹 www.facebook.com/watch?v=8763...
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Me, ten years ago. 🥹 www.facebook.com/watch?v=8763...
Solaris vs The Lobster
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Solaris vs The Lobster
In an upcoming issue of Hong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, we'll publish an English section on 🅆🄷🄸🅃🄴. Greg Huteson's "Sun Moon Lake: A History" will be included: "...a reflection on the impact of the tourist gaze on an indigenous people of Taiwan..." www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
In an upcoming issue of Hong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, we'll publish an English section on 🅆🄷🄸🅃🄴. Greg Huteson's "Sun Moon Lake: A History" will be included: "...a reflection on the impact of the tourist gaze on an indigenous people of Taiwan..." www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Jennifer Eagleton reviews Lee Sang-il's 𝐾𝑜𝑘𝑢ℎ𝑜 (2025), noting that its cinematography exquisitely captures kabuki’s ritual & grandeur, while the embedded plays on unrequited love & death mirror the protagonists’ emotional journeys.
⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/11/25/k...
⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/11/25/k...
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Jennifer Eagleton reviews Lee Sang-il's 𝐾𝑜𝑘𝑢ℎ𝑜 (2025), noting that its cinematography exquisitely captures kabuki’s ritual & grandeur, while the embedded plays on unrequited love & death mirror the protagonists’ emotional journeys.
⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/11/25/k...
⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/11/25/k...
I wrote something.
" To use the mark was to risk suspicion, and people altered their language accordingly. Writers recast sentences, speakers modified their pauses, students revised their notes, and poets re-shaped their lines."
In full: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
" To use the mark was to risk suspicion, and people altered their language accordingly. Writers recast sentences, speakers modified their pauses, students revised their notes, and poets re-shaped their lines."
In full: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I wrote something.
" To use the mark was to risk suspicion, and people altered their language accordingly. Writers recast sentences, speakers modified their pauses, students revised their notes, and poets re-shaped their lines."
In full: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
" To use the mark was to risk suspicion, and people altered their language accordingly. Writers recast sentences, speakers modified their pauses, students revised their notes, and poets re-shaped their lines."
In full: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] Fathima M reflects on Yōko Ogawa’s 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑎’𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑏𝑜𝑥 (Pantheon Books, 2024), trans. Stephen B. Snyder, as a gentle study of sisterhood, quiet privilege, and the enduring solace found in reading, memory, and the ordinary.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/24/m...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/24/m...
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] Fathima M reflects on Yōko Ogawa’s 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑎’𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑏𝑜𝑥 (Pantheon Books, 2024), trans. Stephen B. Snyder, as a gentle study of sisterhood, quiet privilege, and the enduring solace found in reading, memory, and the ordinary.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/24/m...
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/24/m...
The believer, the daughter, the artist, and the student. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5YK...
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The believer, the daughter, the artist, and the student. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5YK...
I wrote something.
"Most knew her online simply as L. She lived between cities and she worked with words: teaching them, editing them, translating them, and training them to behave in lines, the way she liked them."
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
"Most knew her online simply as L. She lived between cities and she worked with words: teaching them, editing them, translating them, and training them to behave in lines, the way she liked them."
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I wrote something.
"Most knew her online simply as L. She lived between cities and she worked with words: teaching them, editing them, translating them, and training them to behave in lines, the way she liked them."
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
"Most knew her online simply as L. She lived between cities and she worked with words: teaching them, editing them, translating them, and training them to behave in lines, the way she liked them."
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
I wrote something.
"Most people would have missed it if the escalator lights had not caught the laminate just so. But there it was at Admiralty, a signthat had not existed the night before: 𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃 ..." www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
"Most people would have missed it if the escalator lights had not caught the laminate just so. But there it was at Admiralty, a signthat had not existed the night before: 𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃 ..." www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I wrote something.
"Most people would have missed it if the escalator lights had not caught the laminate just so. But there it was at Admiralty, a signthat had not existed the night before: 𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃 ..." www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
"Most people would have missed it if the escalator lights had not caught the laminate just so. But there it was at Admiralty, a signthat had not existed the night before: 𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃 ..." www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
「𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖」 Lorence Lozano reviews Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s 𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 (2025), an unsettling study of a society hollowed by capitalist precarity and coercive expectations.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/23/h...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/23/h...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
「𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖」 Lorence Lozano reviews Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s 𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 (2025), an unsettling study of a society hollowed by capitalist precarity and coercive expectations.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/23/h...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/23/h...
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In an upcoming issue of Hong Kong's print Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, we'll publish an English section on 🅆🄷🄸🅃🄴. Ivie Urdas's "Headstone" will be included: "the white marble slab becomes the space where a person’s existence is finally...": www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Deadline: 28 Dec 2025
Deadline: 28 Dec 2025
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
In an upcoming issue of Hong Kong's print Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, we'll publish an English section on 🅆🄷🄸🅃🄴. Ivie Urdas's "Headstone" will be included: "the white marble slab becomes the space where a person’s existence is finally...": www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Deadline: 28 Dec 2025
Deadline: 28 Dec 2025
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦—Rebekah Chan on Teresa Wong’s 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑂𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠(Arsenal Pulp Press): "The result is a hybrid of English shaped by Chinese grammar,or Chinese words scattered within sentences in which they would not normally appear."
⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/11/23/o...
⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/11/23/o...
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦—Rebekah Chan on Teresa Wong’s 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑂𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠(Arsenal Pulp Press): "The result is a hybrid of English shaped by Chinese grammar,or Chinese words scattered within sentences in which they would not normally appear."
⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/11/23/o...
⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/11/23/o...
In an upcoming issue of Voice & Verse, we'll publish an English section on 🅆🄷🄸🅃🄴.
Robert Black's "White Oxen of the Sun (no. 1)" & "White Oxen of the Sun (no. 2)" will be included. 𝑅𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡: "They focus on my family’s experience, as white children living in Taiwan..." www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Robert Black's "White Oxen of the Sun (no. 1)" & "White Oxen of the Sun (no. 2)" will be included. 𝑅𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡: "They focus on my family’s experience, as white children living in Taiwan..." www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In an upcoming issue of Voice & Verse, we'll publish an English section on 🅆🄷🄸🅃🄴.
Robert Black's "White Oxen of the Sun (no. 1)" & "White Oxen of the Sun (no. 2)" will be included. 𝑅𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡: "They focus on my family’s experience, as white children living in Taiwan..." www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Robert Black's "White Oxen of the Sun (no. 1)" & "White Oxen of the Sun (no. 2)" will be included. 𝑅𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡: "They focus on my family’s experience, as white children living in Taiwan..." www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
In an upcoming issue of Hong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, we'll publish an English-language section on 🅆🄷🄸🅃🄴. Isidoro M. Cruz's “Evolution of Tarpaulin” will be included.𝐼𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑜 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑒𝑚:"The poem traces how tarpaulin evolved from a thick canvas..." More: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
In an upcoming issue of Hong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, we'll publish an English-language section on 🅆🄷🄸🅃🄴. Isidoro M. Cruz's “Evolution of Tarpaulin” will be included.𝐼𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑜 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑒𝑚:"The poem traces how tarpaulin evolved from a thick canvas..." More: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
▚ Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians
Edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross
LINK: www.mqup.ca/Books/L/Land...
Edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross
LINK: www.mqup.ca/Books/L/Land...
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
▚ Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians
Edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross
LINK: www.mqup.ca/Books/L/Land...
Edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross
LINK: www.mqup.ca/Books/L/Land...
We'd love to publish reviews of these works in @asiancha.bsky.social. They focus on the Japanese Canadian internment & its legacies, tracing histories of dispossession, intergenerational trauma, memory, and reconciliation. Email [email protected] if you are interested in reading any of these titles.
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We'd love to publish reviews of these works in @asiancha.bsky.social. They focus on the Japanese Canadian internment & its legacies, tracing histories of dispossession, intergenerational trauma, memory, and reconciliation. Email [email protected] if you are interested in reading any of these titles.
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Ai-Ting Chung examines 𝐴𝑖𝑟 𝑀𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 (2022),dir. Jo Yong-sun, as an ecocinema work grounded in real-life tragedy: South Korea’s humidifier disinfectant disaster, which killed and injured thousands between the 1990s and 2011.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/21/a...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/21/a...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Ai-Ting Chung examines 𝐴𝑖𝑟 𝑀𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 (2022),dir. Jo Yong-sun, as an ecocinema work grounded in real-life tragedy: South Korea’s humidifier disinfectant disaster, which killed and injured thousands between the 1990s and 2011.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/21/a...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/21/a...
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Very pleased to announce the first accepted poems for the WHITE feature in an upcoming issue of Hong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine.
Ellen:
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Ellen:
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November 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Very pleased to announce the first accepted poems for the WHITE feature in an upcoming issue of Hong Kong's Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine.
Ellen:
facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Ellen:
facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦̄—Jeremiah Dutch on 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑛 (1961), dir. Etenne Périer: "Living abroad and watching one’s homeland descend into extremism is distressing at best, yet it would be even harder to be a diplomat dispatched..."
⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/11/21/t...
⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/11/21/t...
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦̄—Jeremiah Dutch on 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑛 (1961), dir. Etenne Périer: "Living abroad and watching one’s homeland descend into extremism is distressing at best, yet it would be even harder to be a diplomat dispatched..."
⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/11/21/t...
⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/11/21/t...
[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] In this review of 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔ℎ𝑎𝑖 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛, Victoria Green celebrates Leo Ou-fan Lee’s restoration of Shanghai’s interrupted modernist flowering.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/20/s...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/20/s...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] In this review of 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔ℎ𝑎𝑖 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛, Victoria Green celebrates Leo Ou-fan Lee’s restoration of Shanghai’s interrupted modernist flowering.
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/20/s...
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⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/20/s...
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𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑦. 𝑪𝑨𝑳𝑳 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑷𝑶𝑬𝑴𝑺—We invite submissions of original poems or poems newly translated into English on the theme “White" for an upcoming issue of Hong Kong's VOICE & VERSE POETRY MAGAZINE.
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November 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑦. 𝑪𝑨𝑳𝑳 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑷𝑶𝑬𝑴𝑺—We invite submissions of original poems or poems newly translated into English on the theme “White" for an upcoming issue of Hong Kong's VOICE & VERSE POETRY MAGAZINE.
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