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.
Alfred Raquez and the French Experience of the Far East, 1898-1906
1st Edition
By William L. Gibson
May 31, 2023
A Study of an Enigmatic Travel Writer and His Work in Colonial Asia during the fin de siècle. In 1898, a man calling himself Alfred Raquez appeared in Indochina claiming to be a writer travelling the world to escape unfathomable sorrows back home in France. He published thousands of pages of highly...
Chinese Theatre Troupes in Southeast Asia: Touring Diaspora, 1900s–1970s
1st Edition
By Beiyu Zhang
May 31, 2023
A detailed account of the cultural history of the Chinese diaspora, with a focus on the performers and audiences who were involved in the making of Chinese performing cultures in Southeast Asia. Focusing on five different kinds of theatre troupes from China and their respective travels in Singapore...
Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeremy E. Taylor, Lanjun Xu
May 31, 2023
This book explores contested notions of "Chineseness" in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong during the Cold War, showing how competing ideas about "Chineseness" were an important ideological factor at play in the region. After providing an overview of the scholarship on "Chineseness" and "diaspora", the ...
Cold War Cities: The Politics of Space in Europe and Asia during the 1950s
1st Edition
Edited
By Tze-ki Hon
May 31, 2023
This book is a dynamic study of the range of experiences of the Cold War in Europe, East Asia and Southeast Asia in the 20th century. Comprised of ten chapters from a diverse team of scholars from Europe, East Asia, and North America, this edited volume furthers the study of the Cold War in two ...
Memories of the Japanese Empire: Comparison of the Colonial and Decolonisation Experiences in Taiwan and Nan’yo-gunto
1st Edition
Edited
By Yuko Mio
May 31, 2023
The contributors to this book examine and compare the colonial and decolonisation experiences of people in Taiwan and Nan’yō Guntō – Micronesia – who underwent periods of rule by the Greater Japanese Empire. Early anthropological theory of Western imperialist countries focused on transforming '...
Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814
1st Edition
By Sang-ho Ro
May 31, 2023
Historians of late premodern Korea have tended to regard it as a hermit kingdom, isolated from its neighbours and the wider world. In fact, as Ro argues in this book, Korean intellectuals were heavily influenced by both Chinese Neo-Confucianism and the European Enlightenment in the late 18th and ...
Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ivan Sablin, Egas Moniz Bandeira
January 09, 2023
Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions by retracing the evolution of modern institutions of collective ...
Britain, Japan and China, 1876–1895: East Asian International Relations before the First Sino–Japanese War
1st Edition
By Yu Suzuki
August 01, 2022
This book revises the conventional wisdom about the Anglo-Japanese relationship in the late nineteenth century that these two countries were bound by mutual sympathy and common interests, and therefore the common ground which led to the signing of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1902, had already ...
Japan’s Pan-Asian Empire: Wartime Intellectuals and the Korea Question, 1931–1945
1st Edition
By Seok-Won Lee
August 01, 2022
This book is a study of how the theories and actual practices of a Pan-Asian empire were produced during Japan’s war, 1931–1945. As Japan invaded China and conducted a full-scale war against the United States in the late 1930s and early 1940s, several versions of a Pan-Asian empire were presented ...
British Engagement with Japan, 1854–1922: The Origins and Course of an Unlikely Alliance
1st Edition
By Antony Best
May 30, 2022
This book by a leading authority on Anglo-Japanese relations reconsiders the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only recently emerged from self-imposed isolation. ...
Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao: Banking, State, and Family, 1720-1910
1st Edition
By Luman Wang
May 06, 2022
This book examines Shanxi piaohao—private financiers from the Chinese hinterland—in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism. Deepening the existing understanding of capitalist dynamics at work in the families and ...
Eisaku Sato, Japanese Prime Minister, 1964-72: Okinawa, Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Nobel Prize
1st Edition
By Ryuji Hattori
April 29, 2022
This book is a biography of Eisaku Satō (1901-75), who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972, before Prime Minister Abe the longest uninterrupted premiership in Japanese history. The book focuses on Satō’s management of Japan’s relations with the United States and Japan’s neighbours ...