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.
Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence: The Dutch Empire in Indonesia
1st Edition
Edited
By Bart Luttikhuis, A. Dirk Moses
October 14, 2024
Whether out of historical interest, romantic identification with the colonized or as models for contemporary counter-insurgency experts, the mass violence of insurgency and counter-insurgency in the post-war decolonization of the European empires has long exerted an intense fascination. In the main...
Beer in East Asia: A Political Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Chambers, Nithi Nuangjamnong
October 08, 2024
Chambers, Nuangjamnong, and their contributors look at how the development of the beer industry in East Asia presents a unique opportunity for understanding the region’s political economy. Asia is both the world’s largest beer-consuming and beer-producing region, and the fastest growing beer market...
End of Empire Migrants in East Asia: Repatriates, Returnees and Finding Home
1st Edition
Edited
By Svetlana Paichadze, Jonathan Bull
October 08, 2024
This book provides an interdisciplinary study about the migration of approximately 9 million people who became end of empire migrants in East Asia following the collapse of the Japanese Empire in 1945. Through the collection of first-hand testimonies and examination of four key themes, the book ...
Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought
1st Edition
By Ang Cheng Guan
October 08, 2024
Building on the author’s 2012 book, Lee Kuan Yew’s Strategic Thought, this new book presents a comprehensive overview of Lee Kuan Yew’s strategic thought over the course of his entire life. It analyses the factors underlying Lee Kuan Yew’s thinking, discusses his own writings and speeches, and ...
Fighting Japan's Cold War: Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and His Times
1st Edition
By Ryuji Hattori
October 04, 2024
Yasuhiro Nakasone, who served as prime minister for more than five years in the 1980s, was one of Japan’s leading postwar politicians. This book is a biography of him, but by interweaving international politics and media appraisals of him, it also serves as an examination of Japan’s postwar ...
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...