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.
Voices of the Korean Minority in Postwar Japan: Histories Against the Grain
1st Edition
By Erik Ropers
September 30, 2020
Shedding new light on how the histories of zainichi Koreans have been written, consumed, and discussed, this book addresses the roots of postwar debates concerning the wartime experiences of Koreans in Japan.Providing an overview of the complicated historiography, it explores the experiences of ...
English Language Teaching during Japan's Post-war Occupation: Politics and Pedagogy
1st Edition
By Mayumi Ohara, John Buchanan
August 14, 2020
In 1945 Japan had to adjust very rapidly to sudden defeat, to the arrival of the American Occupation and to the encounter with the English language, together with a different outlook on many aspects of society and government. This scholarly book is based on in-depth interviews with people, now aged...
Britain's Imperial Retreat from China, 1900-1931
1st Edition
By Phoebe Chow
June 30, 2020
Britain’s relationship with China in the nineteenth and early twentieth century is often viewed in terms of gunboat diplomacy, unequal treaties, and the unrelenting pursuit of Britain’s own commercial interests. This book, however, based on extensive original research, demonstrates that in Britain ...
Japan's "New Deal" for China: Propaganda Aimed at Americans before Pearl Harbor
1st Edition
By June Grasso
June 30, 2020
In the decade leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time when Japan was expanding its influence in Asia, several Japanese institutions set about trying to convince Americans to support Tokyo’s plans and ambitions for China. This book seeks to analyze the original publications produced by ...
Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China: 1917 as a Significant Year of Journalism
1st Edition
By Qiliang He
June 30, 2020
Offering an entirely new approach to understanding China’s journalism history, this book covers the Chinese periodical press in the first half of the twentieth century.By focusing on five cases, either occurring in or in relation to the year 1917, this book emphasizes the protean nature of the ...
Southeast Asian Education in Modern History: Schools, Manipulation, and Contest
1st Edition
Edited
By Pia Jolliffe, Thomas Bruce
June 30, 2020
How particular has Southeast Asia’s experience of educational development been, and has this led to an identifiably distinct Southeast Asian approach to the provision of education? Inquiry into these questions has significant consequences for our understanding of the current state of education in ...
The Colonisation and Settlement of Taiwan, 1684–1945: Land Tenure, Law and Qing and Japanese Policies
1st Edition
By Ruiping Ye
June 30, 2020
The dispossession of indigenous peoples by conquest regimes remains a pressing issue. This book, unlike most other books on the subject, contrasts two different colonial administrations – first the Chinese Qing Empire, then, from 1895, the Japanese. It shows how, under the Chinese legal system, the...
The United States and Southeast Asian Regionalism: Collective Security and Economic Development, 1945–75
1st Edition
By Sue Thompson
June 30, 2020
The Nixon or Guam Doctrine of 1969 stressed the importance of progress towards regional cooperation and Asian collective security, indicating that Asian countries themselves should take the initiative in creating programs in which the United States could participate. This book analyses the ...
Secularism, Decolonisation, and the Cold War in South and Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Clemens Six
December 16, 2019
The intensifying conflicts between religious communities in contemporary South and Southeast Asia signify the importance of gaining a clearer understanding of how societies have historically organised and mastered their religious diversity.Based on extensive archival research in Asia, Europe, and ...
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, ...
Neutrality in Southeast Asia: Concepts and Contexts
1st Edition
By Nicholas Tarling
December 12, 2019
This book analyses the notion of neutrality to the politics of the state in Southeast Asia. Distinguishing among neutrality, neutralism and neutralisation, it asks what relation do the concepts bear to the independence of states, and how do they relate to other forms of inter-state relations and to...
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 ...