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.
Traditional Malay Monarchy
1st Edition
By Haji Awg Asbol bin Haji Mail
August 19, 2024
This remarkable book brings to an English-speaking audience detailed scholarship originally conceived and written in the Malay language and with a Malay perspective. It examines the nature of monarchy in the Malay world, which includes present-day Malaysia and Indonesia, before and during the onset...
Comfort Women of the Japanese Empire: Colonial Rule and the Battle over Memory
1st Edition
By Park Yuha
July 29, 2024
This is an important and controversial work, hitherto available only in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, a book which has been subject to court cases attempting to have some parts deleted. The author reconsiders the issue of the “comfort women,” that is the Korean women who were compelled to provide ...
Cultures of Modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War Alliance
1st Edition
By Masami Kimura
July 19, 2024
Cultures of Modernity and the U.S.-Japan Cold War Alliance reconsiders the origins of postwar U.S.-Japan relations by focusing on “modernization” ideologies that the Americans and the Japanese shared in the 1940s–early 1950s. Mobilizing a wealth of English and Japanese-language sources, the author ...
Sino-Muslims, Networking, and Identity in Late Imperial China: Longstanding Natives and Dispersed Minorities
1st Edition
By Shaodan Zhang
July 12, 2024
This book explores the everyday life of Muslims in late imperial China proper (“Sino-Muslims”), revealing how they integrated themselves into Chinese society, while also maintaining distinct Islamic features. Deeming “identity” as practical, interactive, and processual, it focuses on ...
India after the 1857 Revolt: Decolonizing the Mind
1st Edition
By M. Christhu Doss
May 27, 2024
Weaving together the varied and complex strands of anti-colonial nationalism into one compact narrative, Christhu Doss takes an incisive look at the deeper and wider historical process of decolonization in India. In India after the 1857 Revolt, Doss brings together some of the most cutting-edge ...
Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991: Nationalism, Socialism, and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Ivan Sablin, Egas Moniz Bandeira
May 27, 2024
This book examines the political parties which emerged on the territories of the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only took over government power but merged with government itself. It discusses how these parties, disillusioned with previous constitutional and ...
Power and Politics at the Colonial Seaside: Leisure in British Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Shuk-Wah Poon
May 27, 2024
A study of the complex role of the seaside as a leisure space in colonial Hong Kong. British sports were in many respects more meaningful in the empire than literature, music, art, or religion. They served as an instrument of cultural association and later of cultural change, promoting imperial ...
Two-Way Knowledge Transfer in Nineteenth Century China: The Scottish Missionary-Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815–1887)
1st Edition
By Ian Gow
May 27, 2024
This book is a biography of a remarkable Scottish missionary worker, Alexander Wylie, a classical nineteenth century artisan and autodidact with a gift and passion for languages and mathematics. He made significant contributions to knowledge transfer, both to and from China: in missionary work as a...
Cultures of Memory in Asia: Dynamics and Forms of Memorialization
1st Edition
Edited
By Chieh-Hsiang Wu
January 29, 2024
A collection of works by Asian scholars looking at different ways in which relatively recent traumas have been memorialized in their various countries, often while the traumas themselves are ongoing, or the memories of them contested. Memory studies typically focuses on the study of ...
Japan in Upheaval: The Origins, Dynamics and Political Outcome of the 1960 Anti-US Treaty Protests
1st Edition
By Dagfinn Gatu
January 29, 2024
This book examines the widespread protests which took place in Japan in 1960 against the renewal of the US-Japan Security Treaty and assesses their far-reaching impact. It emphasizes the scale of the protests, at the climax of which hundreds of thousands of protestors surrounded Japan's National ...
China-Japan Rapprochement and the United States: In the Wake of Nixon's Visit to Beijing
1st Edition
By Ryuji Hattori
September 25, 2023
Based on extensive original research including interviews with key participants, this book examines how, following Richard Nixon’s famous visit to China in 1972, Japan established formal diplomatic relations with China, doing so before the United States and other Western countries. It considers the...
Rice and Industrialisation in Asia
1st Edition
By A. J. H. Latham
September 25, 2023
This book is about the introduction of modern power-driven rice milling to the main rice exporting countries of Burma (Myanmar), Siam (Thailand) and French Indo-China (Vietnam) from 1869. Rich in historical and empirical sources, the book draws extensively from the London Rice Brokers’ Association...