Micale M.S., Pols S. (eds.) Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present

Berghahn Books, 2021. — 358 p. — ISBN 978-1-80073-183-7.In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and actors are foregrounded. There remains an urgent need to incorporate the methods and insights of recent historical trauma research into a truly global perspective. The chapters in Traumatic Pasts in Asia make just such an intervention, extending Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship.Introduction. History, Trauma, and Asia
Tropical Stupor? An Investigation into Patients Aff ected by Earthquakes and Tropical Weather in Colonial Taiwan
Male Hysteria in Modern Japan: Trauma, Masculinity, and Military Psychiatry during the Asia-Pacifi c War
Atomic Trauma: Japanese Psychiatry in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
“Yankee-Style Trauma”: e Korean War and the Americanization of Psychiatry in the Republic of Korea
“No PTSD in Vietnam”: Psychological Trauma, Psychic Shock, and the Biology of War Suff ering in the Context of the American War
Psychological Trauma and Suff ering in Long Distance Friendships Involving Political Prisoners in Indonesia
Haunting and Recovery in Post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia
A Field of Happiness: Space, Trauma, and Existential Precarity among China’s Sent-Down Youth
Performing Songs as Healing the Trauma of the 1965 Anti-Communist Killings in Indonesia
Healing Our Sacrifi ce: Trauma and Translation in the Burmese Democracy Movement
Beyond PTSD: e Politics of Visibility in a Kashmiri Clinic
War Memorials: Materializing Traumatic Pasts and Constructing Memories of the Asia-Pacifi c War
Traumatic Pasts, Haunting Futures