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.
Revisiting Japan’s Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy D. Amos, Akiko Ishii
November 30, 2021
This volume presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study of the Meiji Restoration. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of approaches and interpretations of the Restoration that showcase the strengths of the most recent interpretative trends in ...
Korean National Identity under Japanese Colonial Rule: Yi Gwangsu and the March First Movement of 1919
1st Edition
By Michael Shin
September 30, 2021
Modern Korean nationalism has been shaped by the turbulent historical forces that shook and transformed the peninsula during the twentieth century, including foreign occupation, civil war, and division. This book examines the emergence of the nation as the hegemonic form of collective identity ...
A History of the Modern Chinese Navy, 1840–2020
1st Edition
By Bruce A. Elleman
May 10, 2021
This book provides a comprehensive history of the modern Chinese navy from 1840 to the present. Beginning with a survey of naval developments in earlier imperial times, the book goes on to show how China has since the mid-19th century four times built or rebuilt its navy: after the Opium Wars, a ...
International Society in the Early Twentieth Century Asia-Pacific: Imperial Rivalries, International Organizations, and Experts
1st Edition
Edited
By Hiroo Nakajima
May 03, 2021
Concentrating on the rivalry between the formal and informal empires of Great Britain, Japan and the United States of America, this book examines how regional relations were negotiated in Asia and the Pacific during the interwar years. A range of international organizations including the League of...
Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015
1st Edition
By Liping Bu
December 18, 2020
This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China’s public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China’s rise. It outlines the phenomenal improvements in public health, for example the increase in life expectancy from 38 in...
Chinese Middlemen in Hong Kong's Colonial Economy, 1830-1890
1st Edition
By Kaori Abe
December 12, 2019
The traditional view of the Hong Kong colonial economy is that it was dominated by Western companies, notably the great British merchant houses, and that these firms enlisted support from Chinese middlemen – the compradors – who were effectively agents working for the Western firms. This book, ...
The Economy of Colonial Malaya: Administrators versus Capitalists
1st Edition
By Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja
December 12, 2019
Although colonies are often viewed as having been of crucial economic importance to Britain’s empire, those responsible for administering the colonies were often not at all interested in or supportive of commercial ventures, as this book demonstrates. Based on extensive original research, and ...
World War Two Legacies in East Asia: China Remembers the War
1st Edition
By Chan Yang
December 12, 2019
How to remember World War Two in East Asia is a huge source of friction between China and Japan, causing major diplomatic and political difficulties right up to the present. As this book shows, however, there is also disagreement within these countries as to how to remember the war, which in the ...
Chinese Workers: A New History
1st Edition
By Jackie Sheehan
December 19, 2018
Jackie Sheehan traces the background and development of workers clashes with the Chinese Communist Party through mass campaigns such as the 1956-7 Hundred Flowers movement, the Cultural Revolution, the April Fifth Movement of 1976, Democracy Wall and the 1989 Democracy Movement. The author provides...
Chinese Complaint Systems: Natural Resistance
1st Edition
By Qiang Fang
August 23, 2018
Complaint systems have existed in China for many years, and in 2004, a debate took place in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over the Letters and Visits System (xinfang zhidu), which was designed to allow people to register complaints with the upper levels of the government. However, both ...
Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India: Kindred Spirits in the 19th and 20th Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanne Cho, Eric Kurlander, Douglas T McGetchin
August 23, 2018
Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting edge scholarship in the field of German--Indian and South Asian Studies, the book looks at the history of German--Indian relations in the spheres of culture, politics, and intellectual life. Combining transnational, post-colonial, and ...
Britain and China, 1840-1970: Empire, Finance and War
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Bickers, Jonathan Howlett
April 25, 2018
This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as fi nance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on ...