Books written by Michael Berry

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

  Do you take me, Wo Xing, for a 'savage' that you can just kill?! Humph!" (280). Here, Wo Xing makes clear that, although he has reappropriated his aboriginal identity, it is not the stereotypical native as savage but a new, ...

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  The Affluent Society Revisited

  The “trick” was to create a ladder or hierarchy of bond classes ranging from triple-A down to Bs with each tranche sold to investors with the appropriate risk appetites. Thus, pension funds that by law could only buy triple-A did so.

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  Huddersfield Trolleys and Buses

  tramway depot was built in 1887, and although the entrance was in Great Northern Street, it was always known as the Leeds Road garage as entrance from the latter was impossible due to a canal separating the building from Leeds Road.

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  Leeds Trams and Buses

  This fascinating selection of photographs gives an insight into the history of tram and bus operations in the Leeds area.

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  Listening to Rap: An Introduction

  Sociologist William J. Wilson found that fewer than 29% of inner-city residents claim any kind of affiliation with a formal religious organization.28 We saw how the Five-Percent Nation used rap music to educate the masses about their ...

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  Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers

  Interviews with Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and other Chinese directors about their work & the ways it has impacted both on the film industry in China as well as on the world scene.

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  A Half-Century of Physical Asymptotics and Other Diversions: Selected Works by Michael Berry

  A. Einstein The laws that emerged from the work of Galileo, Kepler and Newton constituted what we today call mechanics. The question whether these laws are valid for all observers or for some privileged observers– and if so to whom ...

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

  Oksenberg, Michel, Lawrence R. Sullivan, and Marc Lambert, eds. Beijing Spring, 1989: Confrontation and Conflict, the Basic Documents. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1990. Ong, Aihwa. Flexihle Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of ...

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  Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia

  The essays in part I examine historical trends at work in various "national" cinemas, including China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and the United States.

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  Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers

  FOREWORD BY MARTIN SCORSESE Speaking Images in INTERVIEWS with CONTEMPORARY CHINESE FILM MAKERS Speaking in Images GLOBAL CHINESE CULTURE Speaking in Images INTERVIEWS. MICH A E L BERRY Front Cover.

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  Urban Regeneration and Central-local Government Relations: The Case of East Manchester

  Urban Regeneration and Central-local Government Relations: The Case of East Manchester

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  Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia

  The essays in part I examine historical trends at work in various "national" cinemas, including China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and the United States.

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  Jia Zhangke's 'Hometown Trilogy': Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures

  The three films comprising director Jia Zhangke's 'Hometown Trilogy' - Xiao Wu (1997), Platform (2000) and Unknown Pleasures(2002) - represent key contributions to the cinema of contemporary China. The films,...

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  Reporting Cultures on 60 Minutes: Missing the Finnish Line in an American Newscast

  This work delves into the act of reporting on different cultures as a means of exploring our own.

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  Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City

  The author's "first-person account of life in Wuhan [China] during the COVID-19 outbreak ... after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan"--Dust jacket flap.

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  Jia Zhangke's 'Hometown Trilogy': Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures

  At the heart of the book lies a series of close readings of each of the three films; through which Berry teases out their central narrative themes, highlighting Jia's use of editing, cinematic language, and mise en scene.

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  光影言語: 當代華語片導演訪談錄

  光影言語: 當代華語片導演訪談錄

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  Urban Regeneration and Central-local Government Relations: The Case of East Manchester

  Urban Regeneration and Central-local Government Relations: The Case of East Manchester

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  The Affluent Society Revisited

  This book revisits John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society in the context of the background to and causes of the global economic crisis that erupted in 2008.

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  Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia

  ... a game designed to illustrate the winning of a war cannot, finally, allow that war to be won. The first feature of ... into speculative fiction. See Brett Todd, “Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday Review,” GameSpot, April 11, 2006, http://www ...