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.
A Colonial Economy in Crisis: Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s
1st Edition
By Ian Brown
January 16, 2014
The book challenges the orthodox argument that rural populations which abandoned self-sufficiency to become single commodity producers, and were supposedly very vulnerable to the commodity price collapse of the 1930s Depression, did not suffer as much as has been supposed. It shows how the effects ...
The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45
1st Edition
By Ooi Keat Gin
December 09, 2013
The Japanese occupation of both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in 1941 to 1945 is a much understudied subject. Of particular interest is the occupation of Dutch Borneo, governed by the Imperial Japanese Navy that had long-term plans for ‘permanent possession’. ...
Russo-Japanese Relations, 1905-17: From enemies to allies
1st Edition
By Peter Berton
October 03, 2013
One surprising outcome of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 was that, although Russia was humiliatingly defeated, by 1916 Russia and Japan had become allies. This book provides a detailed analysis of how this remarkable turnaround came about. It traces the evolution of relations between the two ...
Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought
1st Edition
By Ang Cheng Guan
August 06, 2013
Lee Kuan Yew, as the founding father of independent Singapore, has had an enormous impact on the development of Singapore and of Southeast Asia more generally. Even in his 80s he is a key figure who continues to exert considerable influence from behind the scenes. This book presents a comprehensive...
Communist Indochina
1st Edition
Edited
By Beryl Williams, R. B. Smith
April 24, 2013
This book examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s. It explores the impact of the Japanese invasion of Indochina in 1940, and the subsequent relationship between the Japanese occupiers and the Vichy French...
Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers: A Journey to the West
1st Edition
By Hsiao-ting Lin
April 11, 2013
The purpose of this book is to examine the strategies and practices of the Han Chinese Nationalists vis-à-vis post-Qing China’s ethnic minorities, as well as to explore the role they played in the formation of contemporary China’s Central Asian frontier territoriality and border security. The ...
Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim
1st Edition
By Ravi Palat
November 14, 2012
This book situates the evolution of capitalist economies along Asia's Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global, political and economic changes. Specifically, it charts their growth at the interface of periodic crises and successive waves of restructuring, and links changes in ...
Women's Suffrage in Asia: Gender, Nationalism and Democracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Louise Edwards, Mina Roces
November 14, 2012
Including chapters on Indonesia, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam and international suffrage connections, Women's Suffrage in Asia engages in debates on suffrage in the region by raising issues unique to the country's case studies presented. It explains why ...
Port Cities in Asia and Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Arndt Graf, Chua Beng Huat
October 10, 2012
With the demise of European socialist economies and the marketization of Asian communist countries, a new global capitalism has reshaped the configuration of the world economy, with speed a determining factor to all transactions of information, finance, goods and services and people. Sea-ports ...
Pre-Communist Indochina
1st Edition
Edited
By Beryl Williams, R.B. Smith
October 10, 2012
This book explores the history of pre-communist Indochina, from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. It examines the early state of Vietnam, comparing and contrasting its political and social systems, with both those of neighbouring states such as Thailand and those prevalent at the time in Europe....
A Vietnamese Royal Exile in Japan: Prince Cuong De (1882-1951)
1st Edition
By Tran My-Van
September 18, 2012
Prince Cuong De, viewed by the French as a pretender to the Vietnamese throne, was an important and interesting figure in the history of Vietnam’s struggle for independence. He was highly regarded by many non-communist Vietnamese nationalists, but has been virtually ‘written out’ of Vietnamese ...
British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957-70: Neo-colonialism or Disengagement?
1st Edition
By Nicholas J. White
July 11, 2012
This book explores the limits of the idea of 'neo-colonialism' - the idea that in the period immediately after independence Malaya/Malaysia enjoyed only a 'pseudo-independence', largely because of the entrenched and dominant position of British business interests allied to indigenous elites. The ...