Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
About the Book Series
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Asia has undergone immense and far reaching changes: war, revolution, occupation, industrialization. This series includes in-depth research on aspects of economic, political and social history of individual countries as well as more broad-reaching analyses of regional issues.
Comfort Women of the Japanese Empire: Colonial Rule and the Battle over Memory
1st Edition
By Park Yuha
January 30, 2026
This is an important and controversial work, hitherto available only in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, a book which has been subject to court cases attempting to have some parts deleted. The author reconsiders the issue of the “comfort women,” that is the Korean women who were compelled to provide ...
Cultures of Modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War Alliance
1st Edition
By Masami Kimura
December 26, 2025
Cultures of Modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War Alliance reconsiders the origins of postwar U.S.-Japan relations by focusing on “modernization” ideologies that the Americans and the Japanese shared in the 1940s–early 1950s. Mobilizing a wealth of English and Japanese-language sources, the author ...
Sino-Muslims, Networking, and Identity in Late Imperial China: Longstanding Natives and Dispersed Minorities
1st Edition
By Shaodan Zhang
December 26, 2025
This book explores the everyday life of Muslims in late imperial China proper (“Sino-Muslims”), revealing how they integrated themselves into Chinese society, while also maintaining distinct Islamic features. Deeming “identity” as practical, interactive, and processual, it focuses on ...
Traditional Malay Monarchy
1st Edition
By Haji Awg Asbol bin Haji Mail
December 26, 2025
This remarkable book brings to an English-speaking audience detailed scholarship originally conceived and written in the Malay language and with a Malay perspective. It examines the nature of monarchy in the Malay world, which includes present-day Malaysia and Indonesia, before and during the onset...
Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History
1st Edition
Edited
By Isabella Jackson, Yushu Geng
November 28, 2025
At the cutting edge of the growing field of the history of childhood, this book shows how placing children at the centre of historical analysis enables the past to be viewed in new ways. Demonstrating that changes in the way Chinese children were viewed and cared for emerged in the context of an ...
Brunei and the British in the Nineteenth Century: Of a Seer-poet, an Adventurer, and the Near Extinction of an Ancient Malay Sultanate
1st Edition
By Ooi Keat Gin
September 24, 2025
Brunei and the British in the Nineteenth Century relates the remarkable tale of the encounter between the Sultanate of Brunei, that in 1800 possessed nominal hegemony over most of northern Borneo, and Western colonialists, particularly the British. The study focuses on two notable protagonists: ...
Public Health and the Pandemic in Colonial Bengal: An Analysis of the Spanish Influenza (1918–1920)
1st Edition
By Saumitra Basu
September 22, 2025
Public Health and the Pandemic in Colonial Bengal examines the interplay between colonial governance and public health crises by focusing on the effects of the 1918–19 Spanish Influenza pandemic in Bengal. During the time of the pandemic, Bengal was a region of stark contrasts—rich in culture and ...
Projecting British Ideas on Post-War Japan: Propaganda, Cultural Exchange and Overseas Information Policy, 1945–1975
1st Edition
By Yoshiomi Saito
August 21, 2025
Drawing from a wide array of English and Japanese primary sources, Saito examines the pivotal role of Britain’s overseas information policy in shaping post-war Anglo–Japanese relations. While the historiography of post-war Japan’s international relations has predominantly centred on US–Japan ...
Alternative Histories of Development in Japan and East Asia: Unthinking Modernization, Recreating Lifeworlds
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy D. Amos, Akiko Ishii, Samson Lim
August 15, 2025
This book examines the history of development in East Asia in terms of material change and human-nature relations from the perspectives of people living in Asia in modern and pre-modern periods. By challenging the reader to “unthink” what modern development is, each chapter offers a case study ...
Nation Building in Japan, 1945–1952: The Allied Occupation and the US-Japan Alliance
1st Edition
By Peter K. Frost
July 30, 2025
This book analyzes the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952). It begins by explaining why Japan spent roughly fifty years building its own colonial system and declaring war on China and the Western Allies, only to decide after military defeats, two atomic bombings and the Soviet declaration of war...
US-China Naval Co-operation Against the Soviet Union: Carter’s Navy
1st Edition
By Bruce A Elleman
July 25, 2025
This book discusses the key role of the transfer of naval technology from the U.S. to China in building up the Chinese Navy during the Cold War. Revealing how this process began in the late 1970s under the Carter Administration when Deng Xiaoping was newly in power, and how it accelerated under ...
Coalition Navies during the Korean War: Understanding Combined Naval Operations
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Bowers
June 27, 2025
This book presents a detailed assessment of the role of navies in the Korean War. It highlights that, despite being predominantly a land war, navies played a vital part. Moreover, the naval war was not solely a U.S. operation. Smaller navies from many countries made important contributions both in ...