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

MICHAEL BERRY is Associate Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is the author of A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (Columbia University Press, 2008) and Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers (Columbia University Press, 2005).