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<p> 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 foregrounded. There remains an urgent need to incorporate the methods and insights of recent historical trauma research into a truly global perspective. The chapters in<em>Traumatic Pasts in Asia</em> make just such an intervention, extending Euro-American paradigms of&#xa0;traumatic&#xa0;experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship.</p>