Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present - Paperbackby Mark S. Micale (Editor), Hans Pols (Editor) In the early twenty first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and actors are