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.
The British Empire and Tibet 1900-1922
1st Edition
By Wendy Palace
July 11, 2012
In August 1904 Sir Francis Younghusband's invasion force reached the forbidden city of Lhasa. The British invasion of Tibet in 1903 acted as a catalyst for change in a world transformed by revolution, war and the rise of a new order. Using unofficial government sources, private papers and the ...
US-China Cold War Collaboration: 1971-1989
1st Edition
By S Mahmud Ali
July 11, 2012
After more than four decades the Cold War ended with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union. Almost simultaneously China emerged as the new potential disruptor of international stability, with Beijing replacing Moscow as the key source of Western insecurity. Drawing upon extensive primary ...
War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945
1st Edition
By Hans van de Ven
June 20, 2012
In 1937, the Nationalists under Chiang Kaishek were leading the Chinese war effort against Japan and were lauded in the West for their efforts to transform China into an independent and modern nation; yet this image was quickly tarnished. The Nationalists were soon denounced as militarily ...
Business-Government Relations in Prewar Japan
1st Edition
By Peter von Staden
June 14, 2012
For the business and government relationship in Japan, the pre-war period was an era of considerable change. Framed by Japan’s nation-building efforts, the relationship adapted and evolved with the often fluid economic and political circumstances. As both business and government had vested ...
On The Borders of State Power: Frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Gainsborough
June 13, 2012
On The Borders of State Power explores the changing nature, meaning and significance of international borders over time in the area referred to today as the Greater Mekong Sub-region, incorporating Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and China’s Yunnan province. An international line up...
National Pasts in Europe and East Asia
1st Edition
By Peter W. Preston
May 09, 2012
With the rise of industrial capitalism in Europe and the related imposition of colonial rule in much of East Asia, both Europe and East Asia have intertwined histories that continue to shape their political thinking and political decision making. The contemporary interactions of the two regions – ...
The Cold War and National Assertion in Southeast Asia: Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948–1962
1st Edition
By Matthew Foley
March 29, 2012
This book charts British and American approaches to Burma between the country’s independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 and the military coup that ended civilian government in 1962. It analyses the fundamental drivers of Anglo-American policy-making during this crucial period – assumptions, ...
The International History of East Asia, 1900–1968: Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Antony Best
March 29, 2012
This book provides a broad account of the international history of East Asia from 1900 to 1968 - a subject that is essential to any understanding of the modern epoch. Whereas much of the scholarship on this subject has focused purely on the immediate origins and consequences of violent events such ...
The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashwini Tambe, Harald Fischer Tiné
February 21, 2012
This book assesses British colonialism in South Asia in a transnational light, with the Indian Ocean region as its ambit, and with a focus on ‘subaltern’ groups and actors. It breaks new ground by combining new strands of research on colonial history. Thinking about colonialism in dynamic terms, ...
The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession: Adopting and Adapting Western Influences
1st Edition
By Aya Takahashi
December 20, 2011
In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the west. This book tells the story of 'Florence Nightingale-ism' in Japan, showing how Japanese nursing developed from 1868 to the present. It ...
Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52: Alien Prescriptions?
1st Edition
By Christopher Aldous, Akihito Suzuki
December 12, 2011
Whilst most facets of the Occupation of Japan have attracted much scholarly debate in recent decades, this is not the case with reforms relating to public health. The few studies of this subject largely follow the celebratory account of US-inspired advances, strongly associated with Crawford Sams, ...
Regionalism in Southeast Asia: To foster the political will
1st Edition
By Nicholas Tarling
October 20, 2011
Regionalism in Southeast Asia provides the reader with an historical analysis of Southeast Asia from the distinct perspective of regionalism. Southeast Asian history is usually written from a national point of view, which underplays the links between neighbouring states and nations and ...