Author John Berra

John Berra

John Berra is a lecturer in Film and Language Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is the co-editor of World Film Locations: Beijing (2012) and World Film Locations: Shanghai (2014). He has contributed to Electric Shadows: A Century of Chinese Cinema (2014) and is the co-editor of the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture.

The Horse Thief

Marginalised Visions: Tian Zhuangzhuang’s The Horse Thief (Dao ma zei)

May 2015

CTEQ Annotations on Film

A starkly hypnotic portrait of life in the Tibetan mountains, The Horse Thief (Dao ma zei) is the resplendent centrepiece in Tian Zhuangzhuang’s loose trilogy on the subject of ethnic minorities that began with...