"Encountering (China, My) Sorrow". Issue 1 (1st September 1998)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fong Young, Suzie Sau
• Is Part Of: Asian cinema. Volume 10:Issue 1(1998)
• Page Start: 107
• Page End: 111
• Publication Date: 1998-09-01
• Subjects: Motion pictures -- East Asia -- Periodicals; Motion pictures -- Southeast Asia -- Periodicals; Motion pictures -- Periodicals; Asians in motion pictures -- Periodicals; 791.43095
• DOI: 10.1386/ac.10.1.107_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1059-440X

Abstract

The Buddhists say that all life is sorrow, but Dai Sijie's China My Sorrow (1989), while borrowing freely from the 2000-year-old tradition of Buddhist thought, does not ignore the role of the "politics of everyday resentment" in making human life narrower, excessively violent, and irreconciliable to the best theories of high culture.