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.
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 ...
Moscow and the Emergence of Communist Power in China, 1925–30: The Nanchang Uprising and the Birth of the Red Army
1st Edition
By Bruce Elleman
July 21, 2010
This book examines the emergence of Communist power in China during the interwar period, focusing especially on the role of the Soviet Union and the 1927 Nanchang Uprising. It describes the history behind the alliance between the Chinese Communists and Nationalists, the impact of the USSR's ...
Changing Visions of East Asia, 1943-93: Transformations and Continuities
1st Edition
Edited
By Chad Mitcham, R.B. Smith
July 14, 2010
Ralph Smith was a highly respected historian who, at the time of his death in December 2000, had nearly completed a manuscript chronicling changes in the East Asia region since 1943. This fascinating work, completed and edited by Chad Mitcham, one of Ralph Smith’s former students, himself a ...
India's Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism
1st Edition
Edited
By Waltraud Ernst, Biswamoy Pati
April 08, 2010
This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices, gender issues, the states’ military ...
Russian Views of Japan, 1792-1913: An Anthology of Travel Writing
1st Edition
By David N. Wells
August 14, 2009
Before Japan was 'opened up' in the 1850s, contact with Russia as well as other western maritime nations was extremely limited. Yet from the early eighteenth century onwards, as a result of their expanding commercial interests in East Asia and the North Pacific, Russians had begun to encounter ...