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.
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 ...
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 ...