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.
Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Blackburn, Karl Hack
October 11, 2011
Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death Railway’ between Burma and Thailand. Some camps had death rates below 1 per cent, others of over 20 per cent. While POWs were deployed far and ...
Southeast Asia and the Great Powers
1st Edition
By Nicholas Tarling
October 11, 2011
The success of regionalism in Southeast Asia depends on the attitudes of the states within the region but also on the attitude of those outside it. This book is an erudite and stimulating study on the latter. Placing these states in a long term historical context Tarling brings out the way in which...
Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Tobias Rettig, Karl Hack
September 13, 2011
Colonial armies were the focal points for some of the most dramatic tensions inherent in Chinese, Japanese and Western clashes with Southeast Asia. The international team of scholars take the reader on a compelling exploration from Ming China to the present day, examining their conquests, ...
Religion and Nationalism in India: The Case of the Punjab
1st Edition
By Harnik Deol
September 11, 2011
This timely and significant study explores the reasons behind the rise in Sikh militancy over the 1970s and 1980s. It also evaluates the violent response of the Indian State in fuelling and suppressing the Sikh separatist movement, resulting in a tragic sequence of events which has included the ...
Japanese and Hong Kong Film Industries: Understanding the Origins of East Asian Film Networks
1st Edition
By Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia
June 20, 2011
Drawing on first-hand materials collected from the Chinese and Japanese literature as well as interviews with more than twenty filmmakers and scholars Kinnia Shuk-ting Yau provides a solid historical account of the complex interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong film industries from the 1930s ...
Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War
1st Edition
By Cheng Guan Ang
May 17, 2011
This book describes and explains Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore’s attitudes and policies regarding the Vietnam War. While it is generally known that all three countries supported the US war effort in Vietnam, it reveals the motivations behind the decisions of the decision makers, the twists and ...
Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s: From Isolation to Integration
1st Edition
Edited
By Makoto Iokibe, Caroline Rose, Junko Tomaru, John Weste
May 13, 2011
This book provides a detailed examination of Japan's diplomatic relations in the 1950s, an important decade in international affairs when new structures and systems emerged, and when Japan established patterns in its international relationships which continue today. It examines the process of ...
Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia: Trial by Army
1st Edition
By Louise Barnett
April 14, 2011
This book is an examination of American army legal proceedings that resulted from a series of moments when soldiers in a war zone crossed a line between performing their legitimate functions and committing crimes against civilians, or atrocities. Using individual judicial proceedings held within ...
Provincial Life and the Military in Imperial Japan: The Phantom Samurai
1st Edition
By Stewart Lone
March 17, 2011
In contrast to the enduring stereotype of a ‘nation of samurai’, this book uses provincial newspapers and local records to hear the voices of ordinary people living in imperial Japan through several decades of war and peace. These voices reveal the authentic experiences, opinions and emotions of ...
Colonialism, Violence and Muslims in Southeast Asia: The Maria Hertogh Controversy and its Aftermath
1st Edition
By Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
December 09, 2010
This book deals with the genesis, outbreak and far-reaching effects of a legal controversy and the resulting outbreak of mass violence, which determined the course of British colonial rule after post World War Two in Singapore and Malaya. Based on extensive archival sources, it examines the custody...
Journalism and Politics in Indonesia: A Critical Biography of Mochtar Lubis (1922-2004) as Editor and Author
1st Edition
By David T. Hill
December 09, 2010
Mochtar Lubis was one of Indonesia’s best-known newspaper editors, authors and cultural figures, with a national, regional and international prominence that he retained from the early 1950s until his recent death in 2004. This book traces the major events in the life of Mochtar Lubis, which is also...
Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China: Christian Inculturation and State Control, 1720-1850
1st Edition
By Lars Peter Laamann
July 21, 2010
Following the prohibition of missionary activity after 1724, China's Christians were effectively cut off from all foreign theological guidance. The ensuing isolation forced China's Christian communities to become self-reliant in perpetuating the basic principles of their faith. Left to their own ...