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.
Japan's Postwar Economic Recovery and Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1948-1962
1st Edition
By Noriko Yokoi
May 31, 2016
Ever since Japan's economy recovered in the 1960s, scholars have been searching for the reasons for its meteoric postwar success. Until now, much research has been based on the study of Japan's society, its political and economic infrastructure, and its particular model of capitalism. But now that ...
Women in Modern Burma
1st Edition
By Tharaphi Than
April 27, 2016
This book challenges the popular notion that Burmese women are powerful and are granted equal rights as men by society. Throughout history Burmese women have been represented as powerful and as having equal status to men by western travellers and scholars alike. National history about women also ...
Japan’s Household Registration System and Citizenship: Koseki, Identification and Documentation
1st Edition
Edited
By David Chapman, Karl Jakob Krogness
April 21, 2016
Japan’s Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state instrument, and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance, social control and the maintenance of social order. It provides identity whilst at the same time imposing identity upon everyone ...
Military Force and Elite Power in the Formation of Modern China
1st Edition
By Edward A. McCord
April 21, 2016
The China we know today emerged at the end of a long period of internal rebellions, civil wars, foreign invasions, and revolutionary insurrections that stretched across the nineteenth century to the mid-point of the twentieth. This book explores one important consequence of this situation—the ...
Macao – The Formation of a Global City
1st Edition
Edited
By C.X. George Wei
March 03, 2016
Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. Held by the Portuguese from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, Macao was up to the emergence of Hong Kong in the later nineteenth century the...
The Jesuit Missions to China and Peru, 1570-1610: Expectations and Appraisals of Expansionism
1st Edition
By Ana Carolina Hosne
September 29, 2015
The rulers of the overseas empires summoned the Society of Jesus to evangelize their new subjects in the ‘New World’ which Spain and Portugal shared; this book is about how two different missions, in China and Peru, evolved in the early modern world. From a European perspective, this book is about ...
Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c.1800-1945
1st Edition
By James A. Warren
September 03, 2015
During the nineteenth century there was a huge increase in the level and types of gambling in Thailand. Taxes on gambling became a major source of state revenue, with the government establishing state-run lotteries and casinos in the first half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, over the same ...
Post-War Borneo, 1945-1950: Nationalism, Empire and State-Building
1st Edition
By Ooi Keat Gin
September 03, 2015
This book examines Borneo, both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in the period 1945-1950. Borneo then was at the crossroads. Following the Japanese Occupation, the likely future status of the various Bornean territories was not at all clear, and the book ...
Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan
1st Edition
By Denis Gainty
July 31, 2015
In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the Butokukai’s efforts to define and popularise...
Museums in China: Power, Politics and Identities
1st Edition
By Tracey Lu
July 31, 2015
From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origin and development of museums in mainland China differ significantly from those in the West. The ...
China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922: To the Ends of the Orient
1st Edition
By Susanna Soojung Lim
July 22, 2015
Throughout the centuries, as Russia strove to build itself into an imperial power equal to those in the West, China and Japan came to occupy a special place in Russians’ view of the orient. Never colonised by Russia or the West, China and Japan were linked not only to the greatest of Russian ...
China and the First Vietnam War, 1947-54
1st Edition
By Laura M. Calkins
July 22, 2015
This book charts the development of the First Vietnam War – the war between the Vietnamese Communists (the Viet Minh) and the French colonial power – considering especially how relations between the Viet Minh and the Chinese Communists had a profound impact on the course of the war. It shows how ...