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.
Managing Famine, Flood and Earthquake in China: Tianjin, 1958-85
1st Edition
By Lauri Paltemaa
January 12, 2018
China suffers frequently from many types of natural disasters, which have affected the lives of many millions of Chinese. The steps which the Chinese state has taken to prevent disasters, mitigate their consequences, and reconstruct in the aftermath of disasters are therefore key issues. This book ...
Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900: The Beggar's Gift
1st Edition
By Gerald Groemer
January 12, 2018
This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and makeshift outdoor performance spaces in Edo/Tokyo. For some three hundred years ...
Thailand in the Cold War
1st Edition
By Matthew Phillips
January 12, 2018
Thailand’s position during the Cold War was ambiguous: the country’s political leadership was very keen to maintain the country’s independence on the world stage, yet at the same time was anxious to establish the country’s credentials as staunchly anti-communist. However, as this book argues, ...
Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law, Land and Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Bickers, Isabella Jackson
January 12, 2018
This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction of ...
The Post-war Roots of Japanese Political Malaise
1st Edition
By Dagfinn Gatu
January 03, 2018
Writings on post-war Japanese politics have tended to take for granted the dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as inevitable, without questioning how this came about. This book analyses the nature of Japanese party politics over the first four decades following the Second World War, ...
Britain's Retreat from Empire in East Asia, 1905-1980
1st Edition
Edited
By Antony Best
December 22, 2017
The decline of British power in Asia, from a high point in 1905, when Britain’s ally Japan vanquished the Russian Empire, apparently reducing the perceived threat that Russia posed to its influence in India and China, to the end of the twentieth century, when British power had dwindled to virtually...
Health Policy and Disease in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 1841-2003
1st Edition
By Ka-che Yip, Yuen Sang Leung, Man Kong Timothy Wong
December 21, 2017
Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, plague, venereal disease, avian flu and SARS, this book also examines how the successive government regimes in Hong Kong took action to prevent diseases and control ...
Local History and War Memories in Hokkaido
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip A. Seaton
November 22, 2017
Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, barely features in most histories of the Second World War. However, the combination of distinctive war experiences, a vibrant set of local historian groups, and powerful media organizations disseminating local war history, has generated an identifiable ...
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...