Asian History
About the Book Series
The aim of the series is to offer a forum for writers of monographs and occasionally anthologies on Asian history. The series focuses on cultural and historical studies of politics and intellectual ideas and crosscuts the disciplines of history, political science, sociology and cultural studies.
Investigation into the History of Jingdezhen’s Folk Porcelains: Tradition and Changes
1st Edition
By Lili Fang
April 29, 2026
This book seeks to understand the evolution of Jingdezhen handicraft culture from the micro to the macro perspective by comparing the recently arising ceramic workshops with the traditional approach to the craft. Following 1978 and China’s economic reforms, Jingdezhen, known as “the capital city of...
Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire
1st Edition
Edited
By Martina Siebert, Kai Jun Chen, Dorothy Ko
January 09, 2026
Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire brings the studies of institutions, labour, and material cultures to bear on the history of science and technology by tracing the workings of the Imperial Household Department (Neiwufu) in the Qing court and ...
America's Encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800-1900: Before the Pivot
1st Edition
By Farish A. Noor
December 01, 2025
A century before the Philippines came under American control, Americans were already travelling to Southeast Asia regularly. This book looks at the writings of American diplomats, adventurers, and scientists and chronicles how nineteenth-century Americans viewed and imagined Southeast Asia through ...
Beyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950
1st Edition
By Heather Goodall
December 01, 2025
Beyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950 rediscovers an intense internationalism — and charts its loss — in the Indonesian Revolution. Momentous far beyond Indonesia itself, and not just for elites, generals, or diplomats, the Indonesian anti-colonial ...
Held's History of Sumbawa: An Annotated Translation
1st Edition
By Hans Hägerdal
December 01, 2025
Sumbawa is a medium-sized island in eastern Indonesia which has a particularly interesting past. In the premodern era it lay on the trade routes that connected the north coasts of the islands of Melaka and Java with the spice-producing areas in Maluku, while Sumbawa itself exported horses, sappan ...
Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914
1st Edition
By Anne Raffin
December 01, 2025
Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914 revisits and analyses the earlier part of the Third Republic, when France granted citizenship rights to Indians in Pondicherry. This work of historical sociology explores the nature of this colonial citizenship and enables comparisons...
The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse
1st Edition
By Farish A. Noor
December 01, 2025
The nations of Southeast Asia today are rapidly integrating economically and politically, but that integration is also counterbalanced by forces ranging from hyper-nationalism to disputes over cultural ownership throughout the region. Those forces, Farish A. Noor argues in this book, have their ...
The Javanese Way of Law: Early Modern Sloka Phenomena
1st Edition
By Mason Hoadley
December 01, 2025
The author's investigation of early-modern Javanese law reveals that judicial authority does not come from the contents of legal titles or juridical texts, but from legal maxims and variations thereof. A century and a half ago Simon Keyzer, a recognized scholar of Javanese law, noted that ...
The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting
1st Edition
By Catherine S. Chan
December 01, 2025
Diaspora transformed the urban terrain of colonial societies, creating polyglot worlds out of neighborhoods, workplaces, recreational clubs, and public spheres. It was within these spaces that communities reimagined and reshaped their public identities vis-à-vis emerging government policies and ...
The United States and Cultural Heritage Protection in Japan (1945-1952)
1st Edition
By Nassrine Azimi
December 01, 2025
One of the untold stories of the American military occupation of Japan, from 1945 to 1952, is that of efforts by the Arts and Monuments Division of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP), for the preservation of Japan’s cultural heritage. While the role of Allies after WWII in salvaging...
Writing Japan's War in New Guinea: The Diary of Tamura Yoshikazu
1st Edition
By Victoria Eaves-Young
December 01, 2025
Tamura Yoshikazu is destined to die on the alien shores of the New Guinea warzone. Devoid of family contact, perplexed by the unfamiliarity of his environment, deprived of even meagre amenities and faced with the spectre of debilitating illness and starvation, this solitary soldier commenced a ...
Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria: Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands
1st Edition
By Jiani He
April 17, 2025
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Jirim League witnessed a linguistic struggle between Manchu, Mongol, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian powers. The Qing Empire envisioned a trilingual educational system, with the aim of improving the Jirim Mongols’ ability to read Chinese, Manchu, and ...