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

A History of Pain

Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film

2008 • 440 pages

This work probes the restaging, representation, and reimagining of historical violence and atrocity in contemporary Chinese fiction, film, and popular culture. It examines five historical moments including the Musha Incident (1930) and the February 28 Incident (1947).

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Global Chinese Culture

Global Chinese Culture is a 5-book series first released in 2007 with contributions by Sylvia Li-Chun Lin, Michael Berry, and Michel Hockx.

Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film
A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader
Internet Literature in China
Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness

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