The breath of empire : breathing with historical trauma in Anglo-Chinese relations / Nichola Khan.
2022
HN740.Z9
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Title
The breath of empire : breathing with historical trauma in Anglo-Chinese relations / Nichola Khan.
Author
Khan, Nichola.
ISBN
9783031176906 (electronic bk.)
3031176901 (electronic bk.)
3031176898
9783031176890
3031176901 (electronic bk.)
3031176898
9783031176890
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-17690-6 doi
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HN740.Z9
Dewey Decimal Classification
951.2504
Summary
This Palgrave Pivot combines anthropological, biographical and autoethnographic perspectives onto imperial intimacies, the transgenerational transmission of colonial and familial trauma, and violence in two kinds of household: the Chinese family in British Hong Kong and wider imperial Asia, and the Anglo-Chinese family in England. Conjoining approaches from literary anthropology, the historiography of Anglo-Chinese relations, and perspectives on colonial trauma, it highlights the relative neglect of womens stories in customary Chinese readings, colonial accounts, and an ancestral family record from 1800 to the present. Offering an alternative view of family history, this book links the body as a dwelling for assaults on the ability to breathethrough tuberculosis, opium smoking, asthma, and panicwith the physical home that is assaulted in turn by bombs, killing, intimate betrayals, and fatal respiratory illness. The COVID-19 "pandemic of breathlessness" serves as mnemonic both for state repression, and for the reprisal of historical fears of suffocation and dying. These phenomena converge under an analytic concept the author calls respiratory politics. Nichola Khan is Reader in Anthropology and Psychology in the School of Humanities and Social Science and Co-Director of the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics at the University of Brighton, UK.
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Palgrave studies in literary anthropology.
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Table of Contents
1. Breathing With Historical Trauma
2 Breathing as Transgenerational Transmission
3 Womens Intimacies After Empire: Respiratory Histories for the Future
4 Conclusion: Breathing as Life.
2 Breathing as Transgenerational Transmission
3 Womens Intimacies After Empire: Respiratory Histories for the Future
4 Conclusion: Breathing as Life.