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 Triads as Business
1st Edition
By Yiu-kong Chu
March 31, 2015
There is no doubt that the triads have become recognized as a sophisticated and international criminal force and, following the handover of Hong Kong to China, there have been increasing fears that their influence will spread to the West through emigration. This book investigates the reality behind...
The Evolution of the Japanese Developmental State: Institutions locked in by ideas
1st Edition
By Hironori Sasada
February 27, 2015
The Japanese economy underwent a fundamental transition from a liberal economy to a developmental state system during World War II, and despite efforts by the American occupation forces to dismantle them after 1945, these elements of the wartime economic system remained in place. Through an ...
Government, Imperialism and Nationalism in China: The Maritime Customs Service and its Chinese Staff
1st Edition
By Chihyun Chang
November 10, 2014
The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, which was led by British staff, is often seen as one of the key agents of Western imperialism in China, the customs revenue being one of the major sources of Chinese government income but a source much of which was pledged to Western banks as the collateral for...
Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Liping Bu, Darwin H. Stapleton, Ka-Che Yip
August 12, 2014
This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now. It discusses the transfer of scientific knowledge of medicine and public health approaches from Europe...
Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Debjani Ganguly, John Docker
April 28, 2014
This book presents a rethinking of the world legacy of Mahatma Gandhi in this era of unspeakable global violence. Through interdisciplinary research, key Gandhian concepts are revisited by tracing their genealogies in multiple histories of world contact and by foregrounding their relevance to ...
China's Political Economy in Modern Times: Changes and Economic Consequences, 1800-2000
1st Edition
By Kent G Deng
March 13, 2014
This book makes an important contribution to the study of changes in China’s institutions and their impact on the national economy as well as ordinary people’s daily material life from 1800 to 2000. Kent Deng reveals China’s mega-cycle of prosperity-poverty-prosperity without the usual attribution ...
Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire
1st Edition
By Cecilia Leong-Salobir
March 07, 2014
Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. Domestic cookbooks, household management manuals, memoirs, diaries and ...
The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-1945: A patchwork of internment
1st Edition
By Bernice Archer
February 13, 2014
Bernice Archer's comparative study of the experiences of the Western civilians interned by the Japanese in mixed family camps and sexually segregated camps in the Far East, combines a wide variety of conventional and unconventional source material. This includes contemporary War, Foreign and ...
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...