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The Breath of Empire - Breathing with Historical Trauma in Anglo-Chinese Relations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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The Breath of Empire - Breathing with Historical Trauma in Anglo-Chinese Relations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
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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 women's
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 breathe-through
tuberculosis, opium smoking, asthma, and panic-with 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.
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