ABSTRACT
Plagues have roused anger before, sometimes directed at minority groups, sometimes internalised into a sense of despair. However, the many recent manifestations of anger, hate and aggression reveal colours, gestures and manifestations of anger that move beyond politically informed expressions. There is a second kind of contemporary anger that seems newly galvanised, prompting vigorous political assertions and psychosomatic symptoms alike at a global scale. There is also the dimension of management techniques dealing with anger that need consideration, as they appear throughout history, in the Western hemisphere as much as in Chinese contexts. With a focus on the doings and related management practices of anger within an individual's vital body as described in Chinese historical sources, this chapter builds a bridge between past and present, East and West, to invite further research from a more global perspective.
