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.
Malaysia's Defeat of Armed Communism: The Second Emergency, 1968-1989
1st Edition
By Ong Weichong
October 27, 2017
The Malayan Communist Party’s (MCP) decisive defeat in 1960 led many academics and Counterinsurgency (COIN) experts to overlook the resurrection of its armed struggle in 1968. Most scholars continue to regard the so-called ‘Second Emergency’ in Malaysia (1968-1989) as a non-event, and most of the ...
Public Health and National Reconstruction in Post-War Asia: International Influences, Local Transformations
1st Edition
Edited
By Liping Bu, Ka-che Yip
October 27, 2017
This book, based on extensive original research, considers the transformation of public health systems in major East, South and Southeast Asian countries in the period following the Second World War. It examines how public health concepts, policies, institutions and practices were improved, shows ...
A History of Alcohol and Drugs in Modern South Asia: Intoxicating Affairs
1st Edition
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By Harald Fischer-Tiné, Jana Tschurenev
October 26, 2017
At the beginning of the 21st century, alcoholism, transnational drug trafficking and drug addiction constitute major problems in various South Asian countries. The production, circulation and consumption of intoxicating substances created (and responded to) social upheavals in the region and had ...
The Non-Aligned Movement and the Cold War: Delhi - Bandung - Belgrade
1st Edition
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By Natasa Miskovic, Harald Fischer-Tiné, Nada Boskovska
October 26, 2017
The idea of non-alignment and peaceful coexistence was not new when Yugoslavia hosted the Belgrade Summit of the Non-Aligned in September 1961. Freedom activists from the colonies in Asia, Africa, and South America had been discussing such issues for decades already, but this long-lasting context ...
Macao – Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations
1st Edition
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By Katrine K. Wong, George Wei
October 13, 2017
Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. As an entity with independent political power and a unique social setting and cultural development, ...
Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire
1st Edition
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By David G. Wittner, Philip C Brown
June 16, 2017
Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerging non-Western country that was a colonial power in its own right, Japan utilized these fields not only to define itself as racially ...
Status and Security in Southeast Asian State Systems
1st Edition
By Nicholas Tarling
June 16, 2017
Southeast Asia serves as an excellent case study to discuss major transformations in the relationship between states. This book looks at the changing nature of relationships between countries in Southeast Asia, as well as their relationships with other states in Asia and beyond. A diverse region ...
Mobilizing Shanghai Youth: CCP Internationalism, GMD Nationalism and Japanese Collaboration
1st Edition
By Kristin Mulready-Stone
May 25, 2017
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, youth emerged as a new and important social force in many parts of the world. In China the image of this new youth imprinted itself on Chinese consciousness and made clear to potential national leaders that future governments would not be able ...
The Pacific War: Aftermaths, Remembrance and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Christina Twomey, Ernest Koh
May 24, 2017
The Pacific War is an umbrella term that refers collectively to a disparate set of wars, however, this book presents a strong case for considering this assemblage of conflicts as a collective, singular war. It highlights the genuine thematic commonalities in the legacies of war that cohere across ...
Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia
1st Edition
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By Michael S. Dodson, Brian A. Hatcher
May 24, 2017
Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon and extends recent insights into the constitutive and multiple projects of colonial modernity. Eschewing the fashionable binaries of resistance and ...
Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border: Karafuto / Sakhalin
1st Edition
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By Svetlana Paichadze, Philip A. Seaton
May 24, 2017
In the nineteenth century, as the Russian empire expanded eastwards and the Japanese empire expanded onto the Asian continent, the Russo-Japanese border became contested on and around the island of Sakhalin, its Russian name, or Karafuto, as it is known in Japanese. Then in the wake of the ...
New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia: Continuing Explorations
1st Edition
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By Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin, Kenneth Hall
May 18, 2017
Using a unique "old–new" treatment, this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original, primary research, it reinterprets and revises several long-held conventional views in the field, covering the period from the "...