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A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
Michael Berry
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Description for A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
Paperback. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 432 pages, 100 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.
The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels such as Ye Zhaoyan's Nanjing 1937: A Love Story and Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age collectively reimagine past horrors and give rise to new historical narratives. Michael Berry takes an innovative look at the representation of six specific historical traumas in modern Chinese history: the Musha Incident (1930); the Rape of ... Read more
The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels such as Ye Zhaoyan's Nanjing 1937: A Love Story and Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age collectively reimagine past horrors and give rise to new historical narratives. Michael Berry takes an innovative look at the representation of six specific historical traumas in modern Chinese history: the Musha Incident (1930); the Rape of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Series
Global Chinese Culture
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231141635
SKU
V9780231141635
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About Michael Berry
Michael Berry is associate professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers, Jia Zhang-ke's Hometown Trilogy, and Memories of Shadows and Light: In Dialogue with the Cinematic World of Hou Hsiao-hsien (in Chinese) and the translator of several novels, including To Live, ... Read more
Reviews for A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
Twentieth-century China had more than its share of pain, and Michael Berry unfolds the layers of its meanings in diverse contexts and several media. He shows how the pain of groups relates to identity, morality, politics, and to the meaning of 'history' and 'literature.' No serious student of modern China will want to miss his erudite survey.
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