A history of pain trauma in modern chinese literature and film 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 hsiens city of sadness and lou yes summer . A history of pain trauma in modern chinese literature and film global chinese culture kindle edition by berry michael download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading a history of pain trauma in modern chinese literature and film global chinese culture. 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 hsiens city of sadness and lou yes summer palace and novels such as ye zhaoyans nanjing 1937 a love story and wang xiaobos the golden age collectively . 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. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more