A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film

Michael Berry

October, 2008
Cloth, 432 pages, 100 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14162-8
$45.00 / £31.00

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prelude: A History of Pain

Part I: Centripetal Trauma

1. Musha 1930

2. Nanjing 1937

3. Taipei 1947

Part II: Centrifugal Trauma

4. Yunnan 1968

5. Beijing 1989

Coda: Hong Kong 1997

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• Asian Literature
• Film

Series

• Global Chinese Culture

About the Author

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 and Jia Zhang-ke's Hometown Trilogy, and the translator of several novels, including To Live, Nanjing 1937: A Love Story, Wild Kids: Two Novels About Growing Up, and, with Susan Chan Egan, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai.

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