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.
Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle: The case of the cotton textile industry, 1945-1975
1st Edition
By Helen Macnaughtan
August 14, 2009
This book shows how, during the period of the Japanese economic miracle, a distinctive female employment system was developed alongside, and different from, the better known Japanese employment system which was applied to male employees. Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle describes and ...
Colonial Cambodia's 'Bad Frenchmen': The rise of French rule and the life of Thomas Caraman, 1840-87
1st Edition
By Gregor Muller
May 14, 2009
Colonial Cambodia's "Bad Frenchmen" provides a captivating analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on new materials from French, Vietnamese and Cambodian archives, it reconstructs a time during which France struggled to give meaning and ...
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922
1st Edition
By Phillips O'Brien
May 14, 2009
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the first formal agreement of its type reached by a Western 'great' power with a non-Caucasian nation in the modern era. As such, it represented an important milestone diplomatically, strategically and culturally. This book brings together many leading experts who ...
The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War
1st Edition
Edited
By Rotem Kowner
May 14, 2009
The Russo-Japanese War was the major conflict of the earliest decade of the twentieth century. The struggle for mastery in northeast Asia, specifically for control of Korea, was watched at the time very closely by observers from many other countries keen to draw lessons about the conduct of war in ...
The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class
1st Edition
Edited
By Daria Berg, Chloe Starr
May 14, 2009
The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and cultural practices in China from 1550 to 1999, showing how the notion of gentility has evolved and retained its relevance in China from late...
Corruption and Good Governance in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Tarling
April 29, 2009
Bringing together contributions on the nature of corruption in East and Southeast Asia, this edited volume examines the means of limiting and ultimately eliminating corruption at a national and international level. Taking a country by country approach the text explores: the concept of corruption, ...
Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market
1st Edition
Edited
By A.J.H. Latham, Heita Kawakatsu
April 29, 2009
Intra-Asian trade is a major theme of recent writing on Asian economic history. From the second half of the nineteenth century, intra-Asian trade flows linked Asia into an integrated economic system, with reciprocal benefits for all participants. But although this was a network from which all ...
Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949
1st Edition
By Donna Brunero
April 03, 2009
This is an in-depth account of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, a uniquely cosmopolitan institution established in the wake of China's defeat in the Opium Wars (1842 to 43), and a central feature of the Treaty Port system. The British-dominated service was headed by the ...
Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945: War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion
1st Edition
Edited
By Rolf-Harald Wippich, Christian W. Spang
April 30, 2008
Written by a team of Japanese and German scholars, this book presents an interpretation of Japanese/German history and international diplomacy. It provides a greater understanding of key aspects of the countries' bilateral relations from the end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 to the parallel...
Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941-45
1st Edition
By Bruce Elleman
December 01, 2007
The important and previously undocumented event in the history of the Second World War: the negotiation of 'prisoner' exchanges between the United States and Japan during 1941 to 1943, is examined here by Bruce Elleman.Approximately 7000 American citizens had been arrested by the Japanese ...
Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War
1st Edition
By Penelope Francks
June 18, 2007
In the historical literature on Japan, rural people have tended to be regarded as the exploited victims of the industrialisation process. This book provides an alternative view of the role and significance of the rural economy in Japan’s emergence as an economic power prior to World War II. Using ...
Beijing - A Concise History
1st Edition
By Stephen G. Haw
November 30, 2006
Stephen Haw sets out the history of the city of Beijing, charting the course of its development from its early roots before 2000 BC to its contemporary position as capital of the People’s Republic of China. Stephen Haw, a well-established author on China, outlines the establishment of the earliest ...