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New. 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 Nanjing (1937-38); the February 28 Incident (1947); the Cultural Revolution (1966-76); Tiananmen Square (1989); and the Handover of Hong Kong (1997). He identifies two primary modes of restaging historical violence: centripetal trauma, or violence inflicted from the outside that inspires a reexamination of the Chinese nation, and centrifugal trauma, which, originating…
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- Title A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
- Author Michael Berry
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2008-10
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780231141628 / 0231141629
- Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6 x 1.5 in (23.62 x 15.24 x 3.81 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects Violence in literature, Popular culture - China
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007045829
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.480
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- Choice, 03/01/2009, Page 0
- Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/05/2008, Page 17
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