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.
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 ...
Malaysia and the Cold War Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Ooi Keat Gin
December 13, 2021
From the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was a great deal of turmoil, tension and violence in what became Malaysia as a result of the 1963 Federation; upheavals included the Malayan Emergency of 1948·1960, the independence of Malaya in 1957, ...
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 ...
Borneo and Sulawesi: Indigenous Peoples, Empires and Area Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ooi Keat Gin
August 02, 2021
This book presents a great deal of new research findings on the history of Borneo, the history of Sulawesi and the interrelationship between the two islands. Some specific chapters focus on empires and colonizers, including the activities of James Brooke in Sulawesi, of Chinese mining communities ...
Caste in Early Modern Japan: Danzaemon and the Edo Outcaste Order
1st Edition
By Timothy Amos
August 02, 2021
"Caste", a word normally used in relation to the Indian subcontinent, is rarely associated with Japan in contemporary scholarship. This has not always been the case, and the term was often used among earlier generations of scholars, who introduced the Buraku problem to Western audiences. Amos ...
Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan: Staging the Resistance
1st Edition
By Aragorn Quinn
August 02, 2021
Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan sheds new light on the adoption of concepts that motivated political theatres of resistance for nearly a century and even now underpin the collective understanding of the Japanese nation. Grounded in the aftermath of the Meiji Restoration ...
China in Australasia: Cultural Diplomacy and Chinese Arts since the Cold War
1st Edition
Edited
By James Beattie, Richard Bullen, Maria Galikowski
June 30, 2021
Drawing on expertise in art history, exhibition studies and cultural studies as well as politics and international relations, China in Australasia presents significant new perspectives on the role of art in the cultural diplomacy of the People’s Republic of China. The book tells the forgotten story...
Lord Salisbury and Nationality in the East: Viewing Imperialism in its Proper Perspective
1st Edition
By Shih-tsung Wang
June 30, 2021
This study explains how Salisbury viewed cultural conflicts between the East and the West, how he treated Oriental nationality and nationalist aspirations in British dominions in the East, and how he directed British policy in the Eastern world in a time when the Western Powers were plunging into a...
Singapore – Two Hundred Years of the Lion City
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony Webster, Nicholas White
June 30, 2021
Two hundred years after Singapore’s foundation by Stamford Raffles in 1819, this book reflects on the historical development of the city, putting forward much new research and new thinking. It discusses Singapore’s emergence as a regional economic hub, explores its strategic importance and ...
Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018: Disease, Society and the State
1st Edition
By Kah Seng Loh, Li Yang Hsu
June 30, 2021
Through a rich account of tuberculosis in Singapore from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, this book charts the relationship between disease, society and the state, outlining the struggles of colonial and post-colonial governments to cope with widespread disease and to establish ...