Title The breath of empire : breathing with historical trauma in Anglo-Chinese relations / Nichola Khan

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 129 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave studies in literary anthropology Palgrave studies in literary anthropology. 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Violence -- China -- Psychological aspects Families -- China -- Hong Kong -- Psychological aspects Human body -- Social aspects. British colonies Colonization -- Psychological aspects Families -- Psychological aspects Human body -- Social aspects Psychological aspects Violence -- Psychological aspects SUBJECT Hong Kong (China) -- Colonization -- Psychological aspects Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- Psychological aspects Subject Asia China China -- Hong Kong Form Electronic book ISBN 9783031176906 3031176901

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