Death and Emotions in Anglo-China
Negotiating Grief Across Cultures in the Nineteenth Century
Seiten
2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-58877-6 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-58877-6 (ISBN)
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This book analyses the history of emotions surrounding death in 19th-century treaty-port China, to understand how this universal experience was understood and expressed across cultural lines.
This book uncovers the history of emotions surrounding death in colonial and semi-colonial Anglo-China during the 19th century. Engaging with both English and Chinese sources, including obituaries, memoirs, personal correspondence, missionary publications, mourning poetry and travel accounts, Death and Emotions in Anglo-China explores how this common human experience was understood, expressed, and felt across different cultures, where it became not merely a personal matter but a hotly contested issue.
Illustrating how emotions of death solidified communities, buttressed regimes and galvanised political movements, the book pays attention to the dilemma between personal grief and communal commemoration, arguing that the chaotic process of grieving was often pushed aside by collective narratives, which stressed the emotional norm of solemnity. Such collective emotions provided the Western powers, namely the British, a sentimental rhetoric of sacrifice for their imperial cause, and for the Chinese, a powerful impetus to rising Chinese nationalism by the turn of the century.
Focusing on a culturally dynamic context previously overlooked in the field of emotional history, this book contributes to the global dimension of growing interests in historicizing the universal human conditions of emotions and death.
This book uncovers the history of emotions surrounding death in colonial and semi-colonial Anglo-China during the 19th century. Engaging with both English and Chinese sources, including obituaries, memoirs, personal correspondence, missionary publications, mourning poetry and travel accounts, Death and Emotions in Anglo-China explores how this common human experience was understood, expressed, and felt across different cultures, where it became not merely a personal matter but a hotly contested issue.
Illustrating how emotions of death solidified communities, buttressed regimes and galvanised political movements, the book pays attention to the dilemma between personal grief and communal commemoration, arguing that the chaotic process of grieving was often pushed aside by collective narratives, which stressed the emotional norm of solemnity. Such collective emotions provided the Western powers, namely the British, a sentimental rhetoric of sacrifice for their imperial cause, and for the Chinese, a powerful impetus to rising Chinese nationalism by the turn of the century.
Focusing on a culturally dynamic context previously overlooked in the field of emotional history, this book contributes to the global dimension of growing interests in historicizing the universal human conditions of emotions and death.
Bobby Tam is Lecturer of History at University of Hong Kong, where he specialises in the history of death, history of emotions and nineteenth-century British colonialism. He has published articles on the cultural and social history of death in urban China and colonial Hong Kong in British Journal of Chinese Studies and Urban History.
Introduction
1. Regime and Community
2. Authenticity of Grief
3. Personal, Private and Domestic
4. Shared Emotions?
5. Waning of the Old
6. Turn of the Century
Conclusion
Epilogue: The commemoration of Sun Yat-Sen
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.8.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | History of Emotions |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-58877-6 / 1350588776 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-58877-6 / 9781350588776 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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