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.
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 ...
Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The arts of reinvention
1st Edition
Edited
By Morgan Pitelka, Alice Y. Tseng
January 10, 2019
The city of Kyoto has undergone radical shifts in its significance as a political and cultural center, as a hub of the national bureaucracy, as a symbolic and religious center, and as a site for the production and display of art. However, the field of Japanese history and culture lacks a book that ...
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...
Constitution-making in Asia: Decolonisation and State-Building in the Aftermath of the British Empire
1st Edition
Edited
By H. Kumarasingham
September 27, 2018
Britain’s main imperial possessions in Asia were granted independence in the 1940s and 1950s and needed to craft constitutions for their new states. Invariably the indigenous elites drew upon British constitutional ideas and institutions regardless of the political conditions that prevailed in ...
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
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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 ...
Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan
1st Edition
By Francesca Di Marco
August 14, 2018
Japan’s suicide phenomenon has fascinated both the media and academics, although many questions and paradoxes embedded in the debate on suicide have remained unaddressed in the existing literature, including the assumption that Japan is a "Suicide Nation". This tendency causes common misconceptions...
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 ...
The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia: Deimperialization, Postwar Legitimation and Imperial Afterlife
1st Edition
Edited
By Barak Kushner, Sherzod Muminov
February 06, 2018
The end of Japan’s empire appeared to happen very suddenly and cleanly – but, as this book shows, it was in fact very messy, with a long period of establishing or re-establishing the postwar order. Moreover, as the authors argue, empires have afterlives, which, in the case of Japan’s empire, is not...
Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka: Sex and Serendipity
1st Edition
By Robert Aldrich
January 24, 2018
Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants – the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day, providing a history of homosexuality, travel and ...
Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1350-1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Ooi Keat Gin, Hoang Anh Tuan
January 12, 2018
This book presents extensive new research findings on and new thinking about Southeast Asia in this interesting, richly diverse, but much understudied period. It examines the wide and well-developed trading networks, explores the different kinds of regimes and the nature of power and security, ...
International Competition in China, 1899-1991: The Rise, Fall, and Restoration of the Open Door Policy
1st Edition
By Bruce Elleman
January 12, 2018
China's recent economic reforms have opened its economy to the world. This policy, however, is not new: in the late nineteenth century, the United States put forward the Open Door Policy as a counter to European exclusive 'spheres of influence' in China. This book, based on extensive original ...