Introduction. History, trauma, and Asia / Hans Pols and Mark S. Micale -- Tropical stupor? An investigation into patients affected by earthquakes and tropical weather in colonial Taiwan / Harry Yi-Jui Wu -- Male hysteria in modern Japan : trauma, masculinity, and military psychiatry during the Asia-Pacific War / Eri Nakamura -- Atomic trauma : Japanese psychiatry in Hiroshima and Nagasaki / Ran Zwigenberg -- "Yankee-style trauma" : the Korean War and the Americanization of psychiatry in the Republic of Korea / Jennifer Yum-Park -- "No PTSD in Vietnam" : psychological trauma, psychic shock, and the biology of war suffering in the context of the American War / Narquis Barak -- Psychological trauma and suffering in long distance friendships involving political prisoners in Indonesia / Vannessa Hearman -- Haunting and recovery in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia / Caroline Bennett -- A field of happiness : space, trauma, and dealing with existential precarity of the sent-down youth in China / Hua Wu -- Performing songs as healing the trauma of the 1965 anti-communist killings in Indonesia / Dyah Pitaloka and Mohan J. Dutta -- Healing our sacrifice : trauma and translation in the Burmese democracy movement / Seinenu M. Thein-Lemelson -- Beyond PTSD : politics of visibility in a Kashmiri clinic / Saiba Varma -- War memorials : materializing traumatic pasts and constructing memories of the Asia-Pacific War / Maki Kimura -- Afterword: Traumatic pasts, haunting futures / Byron J. Good

1. psychiatry
2. historiography
3. psychological aspects