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1. 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 27th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Government, Imperialism and Nationalism in China

   The Maritime Customs Service and its Chinese Staff

   By Chihyun Chang

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   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...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought

   By Ang Cheng Guan

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   Lee Kuan Yew, as the founding father of independent Singapore, has had an enormous impact on the development of Singapore and of Southeast Asia more generally. Even in his 80s he is a key figure who continues to exert considerable influence from behind the scenes. This book presents a comprehensive...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Women's Suffrage in Asia

   Gender, Nationalism and Democracy

   Edited by Louise Edwards, Mina Roces

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   Including chapters on Indonesia, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam and international suffrage connections, Women's Suffrage in Asia engages in debates on suffrage in the region by raising issues unique to the country's case studies presented. It explains why...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim

   By Ravi Palat

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book situates the evolution of capitalist economies along Asia's Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global, political and economic changes. Specifically, it charts their growth at the interface of periodic crises and successive waves of restructuring, and links changes in...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. A Vietnamese Royal Exile in Japan

   Prince Cuong De (1882-1951)

   By Tran My-Van

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   Prince Cuong De, viewed by the French as a pretender to the Vietnamese throne, was an important and interesting figure in the history of Vietnam’s struggle for independence. He was highly regarded by many non-communist Vietnamese nationalists, but has been virtually ‘written out’ of Vietnamese...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. The British Empire and Tibet 1900-1922

    By Wendy Palace

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

    In August 1904 Sir Francis Younghusband's invasion force reached the forbidden city of Lhasa. The British invasion of Tibet in 1903 acted as a catalyst for change in a world transformed by revolution, war and the rise of a new order. Using unofficial government sources, private papers and the...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge