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.
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...
International Rivalry and Secret Diplomacy in East Asia, 1896-1950
1st Edition
By Bruce Elleman
April 01, 2021
East Asia was a major focus of struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War of 1945 to 1991, with multiple "hot" and "cold" conflicts in China, Korea, and Vietnam. The struggle for predominance in East Asia, however, largely predated the Cold War, as this book shows, ...
Borneo in the Cold War, 1950-1990
1st Edition
By Keat Gin Ooi
March 31, 2021
Although by about 1950 both British Borneo, including the protected sultanate of Brunei, and Indonesian Borneo seemed settled under their different regimes and well on the way to post-war reconstruction and economic development, the upheavals which affected Southeast and East Asia during the Cold ...
Civil Society and Postwar Pacific Basin Reconciliation: Wounds, Scars, and Healing
1st Edition
Edited
By Yasuko Claremont
March 31, 2021
This book brings together discussions of leading aspects and repercussions of the Asia-Pacific War, which still have huge relevance today. From the development of war guilt to the vivid effect of art on bringing alive the realities of the war, it analyses a diversity of post-war issues in the ...
The Russian Discovery of Japan, 1670–1800
1st Edition
By David N. Wells
March 31, 2021
During the period of the Tokugawa shogunate’s seclusion policy from about 1630 onwards there was very little European interaction with the Japanese except through the restricted Dutch presence at Nagasaki. During this period, however, Russians exploring Siberia and the Russian Far East ...
Ulysses S. Grant and Meiji Japan, 1869-1885: Diplomacy, Strategic Thought and the Economic Context of US-Japan Relations
1st Edition
By Ian Patrick Austin
March 31, 2021
Ulysses S Grant, besides being the General-in-Chief of the Union armies at the time of the Union victory in the American Civil War, was also President, 1869–1878, at a time when the United States was undergoing significant transformations, both economically and strategically, and growing in ...
Hagi - A Feudal Capital in Tokugawa Japan
1st Edition
By Peter Armstrong
December 18, 2020
The western Japanese city of Hagi is the town in Japan which has preserved the greatest level of Tokugawa period (1600-1868) urban and architectural fabric. As such it is a major tourist destination for both Japanese and non-Japanese visitors. The city is also very important historically in that it...
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...
China and Southeast Asia: Historical Interactions
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoff Wade, James K. Chin
September 30, 2020
Spanning over a millennium of history, this book seeks to describe and define the evolution of the China–Southeast Asia nexus and the interactions which have shaped their shared pasts. Examining the relationships which have proven integral to connecting Northeast and Southeast Asia with other parts...
Conflict, Community, and the State in Late Imperial Sichuan: Making Local Justice
1st Edition
By Quinn Javers
September 30, 2020
Exploring local practices of dispute resolution and laying bare the routine role of violence in the late-Qing dynasty, Conflict, Community, and the State in Late Imperial Sichuan demonstrates the significance of everyday violence in ordering, disciplining, and building communities. The book ...
Germany's Colony in China: Colonialism, Protection and Economic Development in Qingdao and Shandong, 1898-1914
1st Edition
By Fion Wai Ling So
September 30, 2020
This book explores the economic development of the northern Chinese city of Qingdao, which was held by Germany as a colony from 1898 to 1914. It focuses especially on the economic polices of the German colonial government and of the provincial government of the neighbouring Chinese province of ...