Weeping Qingdao Tears Abroad: Locating Chinese Publics in Colonial Malaya, circa 1919

Animal Bodies, Colonial Subjects: (Re)Locating Animality in Decolonial Thought

In this paper, I argue that animal domestication, speciesism, and other modern human-animal interactions in North America are possible because of and through the erasure of Indigenous bodies and the emptying of Indigenous lands for settler-colonial expansion. That is, we cannot address animal oppression or talk about animal liberation without naming and subsequently dismantling settler colonial...

Regional differences in leprosy; leprosy among Chinese in Malaya.

Regional differences in leprosy constitute major difficulties in our common understanding of the disease. The incidence of lepra fever, tuberculoid reaction, .ulcerative tuberculoid leprosy, leprotic affections of the eye, peripheral nerve involvement and leprotic alopecia varies so markedly as to make the commonplaces of one area the rarities of another. Again the relative proportion of tuberc...

Sickness and the state: health and illness in colonial Malaya, 1870–1940

"The waste of only a single cent a coolie a day on a labour force of forty thousands means a direct loss of 126,000 Straits dollars (almost £15,000) per annum; and to increase the efficiency of the labour by a cent a day means a corresponding gain" (Malcolm Watson, Rural sanitation in the tropics, London, 1915, p. xviii). Watson's observation may appear a little crude but it depicts a reality-a...

Lost Memories of Korean Cinema: Film Policies During Japanese Colonial Rule, 1919-1937

Pain and Surgery in England, circa 1620–circa 1740

The scholarship on the discussion and role of pain in early modern English surgery is limited. Scholars have given little consideration to how surgeons described and comprehended pain in their patients' bodies in early modern England, including how these understandings connected to notions of the humours, nerves and sex difference. This article focuses on the attention that surgeons paid to pai...