Death and Emotions in Anglo-China : Negotiating Grief Across Cultures in the Nineteenth Century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tam, Bobby.

Series:

History of Emotions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nineteenth century.

Ghost stories, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Untitled

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Regime and community

1.1 Colonial 'emotional regime'

1.2 Colonial 'emotional community' and its boundaries

1.3 Qing official mourning and its reception among Britons

1.4 Wars and tragedies

Chapter 2: Authenticity of grief

2.1 'Authentic' grief as a marker of civilization

2.2 Senses, perception and 'improper' emotional expressions

2.3 'Materialistic' and 'extravagant'

2.4 Wealth and sincerity: interplay of class and race

2.5 Authenticity of traditions

Chapter 3: Personal, private and domestic

3.1 Robert, Mary and James Morrison

3.2 Rebecca, John Robert Morrison and William Charles Milne

3.3 The Taylor family

Chapter 4: Shared emotions?

4.1 The Morrison Education Society School

4.2 Yung Wing and his attitude towards death

4.3 Yun Lip and Charles Halcombe

Chapter 5: Waning of the old

5.1 Late-imperial Chinese mourning literature on the eve of transformation

5.2 Wang Tao and his grief

5.3 Disillusionment and breaking up of the old world

Chapter 6: Collective and nationalistic

6.1 'Widespread regret to foreigners and native alike'

6.2 The surge of collective and nationalistic grief - death of Fung Ha-Wei

6.3 Revolutionary martyrs in the colonial urban sphere

Epilogue

Appendices

Appendix I: The Morrison family and related individuals (in Chapter 3)

Appendix II: Estimated number of mourning poems published in Shen Bao (1880-1900)

Bibliography

Primary sources

Archives and online databases

Gale Primary Sources: China and the Modern World

Historical Photographs of China, University of Bristol

Hong Kong Government Report Online

Hong Kong Memory

SOAS Library Special Collections, London.

The National Archives, Kew, London

Virtual Shanghai Project, Aix-Marseille University

Wellcome Collection, London

Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives, New Haven, Connecticut

Newspapers and Periodicals

Other published primary sources

Secondary sources

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781350588783

OCLC:

1591753900