{"product_id":"traumatic-pasts-in-asia-history-psychiatry-and-trauma-from-the-1930s-to-the-present-9781805391500","title":"Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn 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 \u003cem\u003eTraumatic Pasts in Asia\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[This book] presents a more than welcome and extremely successful attempt to ensure that yet unheard sufferers from Burma to Indonesia are given a voice.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Medicine, Conflict and Survival\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“By globalising trauma studies, Micale and Pols break new ground and enrich our understanding of the complex ways in which humans respond to war, genocide and environmental catastrophes…This well-written, engaging, interdisciplinary volume moves the field forward by building a bridge between Western and Asian scholars.\u003c\/em\u003e Traumatic Pasts in Asia \u003cem\u003eis thus a crucial step in carving a path towards a more global approach to understanding traumatic injury. It identifies where Western-centric conceptions of trauma are problematic, while it also explores universal patterns and experiences, including tensions between state and individual conceptions of traumatic memory. This book should spark interest and ongoing discussions among scholars, policymakers, and members of the public whose lives have been shaped by the traumatic legacies of mass violence.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• New Mandala\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“A timely contribution to studies of trauma arising from state policies, drawing attention to the possible ethnocentrism of diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder, to the efficacy of local methods of healing for survivors, and to the challenges of interpreting and memorializing events.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Janice Matsumura\u003c\/strong\u003e, Simon Fraser University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This well-written, engaging, interdisciplinary volume moves the field forward by building a bridge between Western and Asian scholars.  It is an important and valuable volume that will be a cornerstone in the ever-growing field of trauma studies.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Jason Crouthamel\u003c\/strong\u003e, Grand Valley State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface and Acknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e History, Trauma, and Asia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHans Pols and Mark S. Micale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Tropical Stupor? An Investigation into Patients Affected by Earthquakes and Tropical Weather in Colonial Taiwan\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHarry Yi‐Jui Wu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Male Hysteria in Modern Japan: Trauma, Masculinity, and Military Psychiatry during the Asia-Pacific War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEri Nakamura\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Atomic Trauma: Japanese Psychiatry in Hiroshima and Nagasaki\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRan Zwigenberg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Yankee Style Trauma”: The Korean War and the Americanization of Psychiatry in the Republic of Korea\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJennifer Yum Park\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e “No PTSD in Vietnam”: Psychological Trauma, Psychic Shock, and the Biology of War Suffering in the Context of the American War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNarquis Barak\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Psychological Trauma and Suffering in Long Distance Friendships Involving Political Prisoners in Indonesia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVannessa Hearman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Haunting and Recovery in Post–Khmer Rouge Cambodia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCaroline Bennett\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e A Field of Happiness: Space, Trauma, and Dealing with Existential Precarity among China's Sent-Down Youth\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHua Wu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Performing Songs as Healing the Trauma of the 1965 Anti-Communist Killings in Indonesia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDyah Pitaloka and Mohan J. Dutta\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Healing Our Sacrifice: Trauma and Translation in the Burmese Democracy Movement\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSeinenu M. Thein-Lemelson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Beyond PTSD: Politics of Visibility in a Kashmiri Clinic\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSaiba Varma\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e War Memorials: Materializing Traumatic Pasts and Constructing Memories of the Asia-Pacific War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaki Kimura\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword:\u003c\/strong\u003e Traumatic Pasts, Haunting Futures\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eByron J. 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