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1. Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c.1800-1945

   By James A. Warren

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   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...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. China and the First Vietnam War, 1947-54

   By Laura M. Calkins

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   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...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan

   By Denis Gainty

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   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...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
4. A Colonial Economy in Crisis

   Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s

   By Ian Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   The book challenges the orthodox argument that rural populations which abandoned self-sufficiency to become single commodity producers, and were supposedly very vulnerable to the commodity price collapse of the 1930s Depression, did not suffer as much as has been supposed. It shows how the effects...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Communist Indochina

   By R. B. Smith

   Edited by Beryl Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s. It explores the impact of the Japanese invasion of Indochina in 1940, and the subsequent relationship between the Japanese occupiers and the Vichy French...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-1945

   A patchwork of internment

   By Bernice Archer

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   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...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45

   By Ooi Keat Gin

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   The Japanese occupation of both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in 1941 to 1945 is a much understudied subject. Of particular interest is the occupation of Dutch Borneo, governed by the Imperial Japanese Navy that had long-term plans for ‘permanent possession’....

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922

   To the Ends of the Orient

   By Susanna Soojung Lim

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   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...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
9. Chinese Complaint Systems

   Natural Resistance

   By Qiang Fang

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   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...

   Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
10. Status and Security in Southeast Asian State Systems

    By Nicholas Tarling

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

    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...

    Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge