Understanding Why History Forgets: The ‘Rescuing’ of Abandoned Chinese Girls in the South China Sea in the Eighteenth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Concealment in Labour Coercion and Dependency in Asia 1
5. Legitimization of Dominance
6. Malnutrition, Sickness and Missing Soldiers in Central China. The Reports of the Medical Relief Corps, 1942–43 25
7. Understanding Why History Forgets: The ‘Rescuing’ of Abandoned Chinese Girls in the South China Sea in the Eighteenth Century 45
8. The Forgotten Agent: Focusing on the ‘Comfort Woman’ Bae Bong-gi and her Faded History 73
9. Language and In/Visibility
10. Chinese Women Intellectuals, In/Visibility, and Translation 95
11. In and Out of Sight: Textual Traces of Slavery and the Enslaved in Mughal South Asia 121
12. Central Piece
13. Language, Power and (In)Visibility. Reflections on Decolonizing Academic English 143
14. Records and Narratives
15. Humanising Digital Archival Practice. Access to Archives Guided by Social Justice 161
16. Outside the Colonial Microscopic Lens: Invisibilized Chinese Labor Migrants in Dutch and British Colonial Southeast Asia, 1870–1914 197
17. Afterword
18. The Name and the Game Revisited: Mr Mita and Unseen Japanese Pasts 227
19. Notes on the contributors 245
20. Index 247