History of Pain
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 reim...
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 reim...
