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.
Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Michael Dillon
May 10, 2017
Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road, a region of overlapping cultures, the province was virtually independent until the late nineteenth century, nominally part of the ...
The Transformation of the International Order of Asia: Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Colombo Plan
1st Edition
Edited
By Shigeru Akita, Gerold Krozewski, Shoichi Watanabe
April 13, 2017
In Asia the 1950s were dominated by political decolonization and the emergence of the Cold War system, and newly independent countries were able to utilize the transformed balance of power for their own economic development through economic and strategic aid programmes. This book examines the ...
The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance: A reading, with commentary, of the complete texts of the Kyoto School discussions of "The Standpoint of World History and Japan"
1st Edition
By David Williams
December 08, 2016
The transcripts of the three Kyoto School roundtable discussions of the theme of ‘the standpoint of world history and Japan’ may now be judged to form the key source text of responsible Pacific War revisionism. Published in the pages of Chuo Koron, the influential magazine of enlightened elite ...
Itō Hirobumi – Japan's First Prime Minister and Father of the Meiji Constitution
1st Edition
By Takii Kazuhiro
July 28, 2016
The brilliant and influential statesman, Itō Hirobumi (1841-1909), and the first prime minister of Japan’s modern state, has been poorly understood. This biography attempts to set the record straight about Itō’s thought and vision for Japan’s modernisation based on research in primary sources. It ...
Japan's Postwar Economic Recovery and Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1948-1962
1st Edition
By Noriko Yokoi
May 31, 2016
Ever since Japan's economy recovered in the 1960s, scholars have been searching for the reasons for its meteoric postwar success. Until now, much research has been based on the study of Japan's society, its political and economic infrastructure, and its particular model of capitalism. But now that ...
Women in Modern Burma
1st Edition
By Tharaphi Than
April 27, 2016
This book challenges the popular notion that Burmese women are powerful and are granted equal rights as men by society. Throughout history Burmese women have been represented as powerful and as having equal status to men by western travellers and scholars alike. National history about women also ...
Japan’s Household Registration System and Citizenship: Koseki, Identification and Documentation
1st Edition
Edited
By David Chapman, Karl Jakob Krogness
April 21, 2016
Japan’s Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state instrument, and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance, social control and the maintenance of social order. It provides identity whilst at the same time imposing identity upon everyone ...
Military Force and Elite Power in the Formation of Modern China
1st Edition
By Edward A. McCord
April 21, 2016
The China we know today emerged at the end of a long period of internal rebellions, civil wars, foreign invasions, and revolutionary insurrections that stretched across the nineteenth century to the mid-point of the twentieth. This book explores one important consequence of this situation—the ...
Macao – The Formation of a Global City
1st Edition
Edited
By George Wei
March 03, 2016
Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. Held by the Portuguese from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, Macao was up to the emergence of Hong Kong in the later nineteenth century the...
The Jesuit Missions to China and Peru, 1570-1610: Expectations and Appraisals of Expansionism
1st Edition
By Ana Carolina Hosne
September 29, 2015
The rulers of the overseas empires summoned the Society of Jesus to evangelize their new subjects in the ‘New World’ which Spain and Portugal shared; this book is about how two different missions, in China and Peru, evolved in the early modern world. From a European perspective, this book is about ...
Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c.1800-1945
1st Edition
By James A. Warren
September 03, 2015
During the nineteenth century there was a huge increase in the level and types of gambling in Thailand. Taxes on gambling became a major source of state revenue, with the government establishing state-run lotteries and casinos in the first half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, over the same ...
Post-War Borneo, 1945-1950: Nationalism, Empire and State-Building
1st Edition
By Ooi Keat Gin
September 03, 2015
This book examines Borneo, both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in the period 1945-1950. Borneo then was at the crossroads. Following the Japanese Occupation, the likely future status of the various Bornean territories was not at all clear, and the book ...