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.
Macao – Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations
1st Edition
Edited
By Katrine K. Wong, C.X. George Wei
October 13, 2017
Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. As an entity with independent political power and a unique social setting and cultural development, ...
Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire
1st Edition
Edited
By David G. Wittner, Philip C Brown
June 16, 2017
Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerging non-Western country that was a colonial power in its own right, Japan utilized these fields not only to define itself as racially ...
Status and Security in Southeast Asian State Systems
1st Edition
By Nicholas Tarling
June 16, 2017
Southeast Asia serves as an excellent case study to discuss major transformations in the relationship between states. This book looks at the changing nature of relationships between countries in Southeast Asia, as well as their relationships with other states in Asia and beyond. A diverse region ...
Mobilizing Shanghai Youth: CCP Internationalism, GMD Nationalism and Japanese Collaboration
1st Edition
By Kristin Mulready-Stone
May 25, 2017
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, youth emerged as a new and important social force in many parts of the world. In China the image of this new youth imprinted itself on Chinese consciousness and made clear to potential national leaders that future governments would not be able ...
The Pacific War: Aftermaths, Remembrance and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Christina Twomey, Ernest Koh
May 24, 2017
The Pacific War is an umbrella term that refers collectively to a disparate set of wars, however, this book presents a strong case for considering this assemblage of conflicts as a collective, singular war. It highlights the genuine thematic commonalities in the legacies of war that cohere across ...
Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael S. Dodson, Brian A. Hatcher
May 24, 2017
Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon and extends recent insights into the constitutive and multiple projects of colonial modernity. Eschewing the fashionable binaries of resistance and ...
Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border: Karafuto / Sakhalin
1st Edition
Edited
By Svetlana Paichadze, Philip A. Seaton
May 24, 2017
In the nineteenth century, as the Russian empire expanded eastwards and the Japanese empire expanded onto the Asian continent, the Russo-Japanese border became contested on and around the island of Sakhalin, its Russian name, or Karafuto, as it is known in Japanese. Then in the wake of the ...
New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia: Continuing Explorations
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin, Kenneth Hall
May 18, 2017
Using a unique "old–new" treatment, this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original, primary research, it reinterprets and revises several long-held conventional views in the field, covering the period from the "...
Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Michael Dillon
May 10, 2017
Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road, a region of overlapping cultures, the province was virtually independent until the late nineteenth century, nominally part of the ...
The Transformation of the International Order of Asia: Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Colombo Plan
1st Edition
Edited
By Shigeru Akita, Gerold Krozewski, Shoichi Watanabe
April 13, 2017
In Asia the 1950s were dominated by political decolonization and the emergence of the Cold War system, and newly independent countries were able to utilize the transformed balance of power for their own economic development through economic and strategic aid programmes. This book examines the ...
The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance: A reading, with commentary, of the complete texts of the Kyoto School discussions of "The Standpoint of World History and Japan"
1st Edition
By David Williams
December 08, 2016
The transcripts of the three Kyoto School roundtable discussions of the theme of ‘the standpoint of world history and Japan’ may now be judged to form the key source text of responsible Pacific War revisionism. Published in the pages of Chuo Koron, the influential magazine of enlightened elite ...
Itō Hirobumi – Japan's First Prime Minister and Father of the Meiji Constitution
1st Edition
By Takii Kazuhiro
July 28, 2016
The brilliant and influential statesman, Itō Hirobumi (1841-1909), and the first prime minister of Japan’s modern state, has been poorly understood. This biography attempts to set the record straight about Itō’s thought and vision for Japan’s modernisation based on research in primary sources. It ...