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.
The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Adam Clulow, Tristan Mostert
September 30, 2019
The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organizations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, wage war and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an empty arena in which they were free to deploy these powers without ...
The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Soe Tjen Marching
September 30, 2019
In the late 1960s, between one and two million people were killed by Indonesian president Suharto's army in the name of suppressing communism-and more than fifty years later, the issue of stigmatisation is still relevant for many victims of the violence and their families. The End of Silence ...
Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation
1st Edition
By Edgar Porter
May 24, 2018
This book presents an unforgettable up-close account of the effects of World War II and the subsequent American occupation on Oita prefecture, through firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and women who lived there. The interviewees include students, housewives, nurses, midwives, ...
Three Months in Mao's China: Between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
1st Edition
Edited
By Erik-Jan Zürcher, Kim van der Zouw
February 14, 2017
In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher travelled to China for the first time, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great ...