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.
Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan
1st Edition
By Denis Gainty
July 31, 2015
In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the Butokukai’s efforts to define and popularise...
Museums in China: Power, Politics and Identities
1st Edition
By Tracey Lu
July 31, 2015
From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origin and development of museums in mainland China differ significantly from those in the West. The ...
China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922: To the Ends of the Orient
1st Edition
By Susanna Soojung Lim
July 22, 2015
Throughout the centuries, as Russia strove to build itself into an imperial power equal to those in the West, China and Japan came to occupy a special place in Russians’ view of the orient. Never colonised by Russia or the West, China and Japan were linked not only to the greatest of Russian ...
China and the First Vietnam War, 1947-54
1st Edition
By Laura M. Calkins
July 22, 2015
This book charts the development of the First Vietnam War – the war between the Vietnamese Communists (the Viet Minh) and the French colonial power – considering especially how relations between the Viet Minh and the Chinese Communists had a profound impact on the course of the war. It shows how ...
The Triads as Business
1st Edition
By Yiu-kong Chu
March 31, 2015
There is no doubt that the triads have become recognized as a sophisticated and international criminal force and, following the handover of Hong Kong to China, there have been increasing fears that their influence will spread to the West through emigration. This book investigates the reality behind...
The Evolution of the Japanese Developmental State: Institutions locked in by ideas
1st Edition
By Hironori Sasada
February 27, 2015
The Japanese economy underwent a fundamental transition from a liberal economy to a developmental state system during World War II, and despite efforts by the American occupation forces to dismantle them after 1945, these elements of the wartime economic system remained in place. Through an ...
Government, Imperialism and Nationalism in China: The Maritime Customs Service and its Chinese Staff
1st Edition
By Chihyun Chang
November 10, 2014
The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, which was led by British staff, is often seen as one of the key agents of Western imperialism in China, the customs revenue being one of the major sources of Chinese government income but a source much of which was pledged to Western banks as the collateral for...
Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Liping Bu, Darwin H. Stapleton, Ka-che Yip
August 12, 2014
This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now. It discusses the transfer of scientific knowledge of medicine and public health approaches from Europe...
Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Debjani Ganguly, John Docker
April 28, 2014
This book presents a rethinking of the world legacy of Mahatma Gandhi in this era of unspeakable global violence. Through interdisciplinary research, key Gandhian concepts are revisited by tracing their genealogies in multiple histories of world contact and by foregrounding their relevance to ...
China's Political Economy in Modern Times: Changes and Economic Consequences, 1800-2000
1st Edition
By Kent G Deng
March 13, 2014
This book makes an important contribution to the study of changes in China’s institutions and their impact on the national economy as well as ordinary people’s daily material life from 1800 to 2000. Kent Deng reveals China’s mega-cycle of prosperity-poverty-prosperity without the usual attribution ...
Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire
1st Edition
By Cecilia Leong-Salobir
March 07, 2014
Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. Domestic cookbooks, household management manuals, memoirs, diaries and ...
The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-1945: A patchwork of internment
1st Edition
By Bernice Archer
February 13, 2014
Bernice Archer's comparative study of the experiences of the Western civilians interned by the Japanese in mixed family camps and sexually segregated camps in the Far East, combines a wide variety of conventional and unconventional source material. This includes contemporary War, Foreign and ...