LOW FLAT RATE $9.90 AUST-WIDE DELIVERY
Michael Berry is Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA, USA. He is the author of Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers (2006), A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (2008), Jia Zhangke’s Hometown Trilogy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Boiling the Sea: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Memories of Shadows and Light (2014), and Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke (2022); the editor of The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan (2022) and co-editor of Divided Lenses (2016) and Modernism Revisited (2016).
“This is a highly readable, revealing, and at times very disturbing account of what it means when translation becomes a political act. Read in conjunction with Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary, Michael Berry’s book is not only a significant contribution to understanding the weaponization of discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also a major commentary on civil society, power and language in China.” (Gary Rawnsley, The China Quarterly, February 10, 2025)
