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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
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Beijing - A Concise History
Stephen Haw sets out the history of the city of Beijing, charting the course of its development from its early roots before 2000 BC to...
ISBN: 978-0-415-39905-0 | Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.
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From Isolation to Integration
This book provides a detailed examination of Japan's diplomatic relations in the 1950s, an important decade in international affairs when new structures and systems emerged,...
ISBN: 978-0-415-37296-1 | Published January 21st 2008 by Routledge.
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Global Perspectives
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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-43740-0 | Published December 21st 2007 by Routledge.
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Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death...
ISBN: 978-0-415-42635-0 | Published December 14th 2007 by Routledge.
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The Quest for Gentility in China
Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class
The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and...
ISBN: 978-0-415-43586-4 | Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.
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Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941-45
The important and previously undocumented event in the history of the Second World War: the negotiation of 'prisoner' exchanges between the United States and Japan...
ISBN: 978-0-415-46192-4 | Published December 1st 2007 by Routledge.
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People, Princes and Colonialism
This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book...
ISBN: 978-0-415-41541-5 | Published October 11th 2007 by Routledge.
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For the business and government relationship in Japan, the pre-war period was an era of considerable change. Framed by Japan’s nation-building efforts, the relationship adapted...
ISBN: 978-0-415-39903-6 | Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge.
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The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was the major conflict of the earliest decade of the twentieth century. The struggle for mastery in northeast Asia, specifically for control...
ISBN: 978-0-415-36824-7 | Published November 24th 2006 by Routledge.
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Christian Inculturation and State Control, 1720-1850
Following the prohibition of missionary activity after 1724, China's Christians were effectively cut off from all foreign theological guidance. The ensuing isolation forced China's Christian...
ISBN: 978-0-415-29779-0 | Published November 9th 2006 by Routledge.
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Beijing – A Concise History
Stephen Haw sets out the history of the city of Beijing, charting the course of its development from its early roots before 2000 BC to...
ISBN: 978-0-415-39906-7 | Published October 13th 2006 by Routledge.
more information about Beijing – A Concise HistoryChanging Visions of East Asia, 1943-93
Transformations and Continuities
Ralph Smith was a highly respected historian who, at the time of his death in December 2000, had nearly completed a manuscript chronicling changes in...
ISBN: 978-0-415-38140-6 | Published September 18th 2006 by Routledge.
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To foster the political will
Regionalism in Southeast Asia provides the reader with an historical analysis of Southeast Asia from the distinct perspective of regionalism. Southeast Asian history is usually written from...
ISBN: 978-0-415-37962-5 | Published August 1st 2006 by Routledge.
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Colonial Cambodia's 'Bad Frenchmen'
The rise of French rule and the life of Thomas Caraman, 1840-87
Colonial Cambodia's "Bad Frenchmen" provides a captivating analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on new materials from...
ISBN: 978-0-415-35562-9 | Published April 7th 2006 by Routledge.
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Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China
The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949
This is an in-depth account of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, a uniquely cosmopolitan institution established in the wake of China's defeat in the Opium Wars...
ISBN: 978-0-415-32619-3 | Published February 24th 2006 by Routledge.
more information about Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in ChinaIntra-Asian Trade and the World Market
Intra-Asian trade is a major theme of recent writing on Asian economic history. From the second half of the nineteenth century, intra-Asian trade flows linked...
ISBN: 978-0-415-37207-7 | Published January 23rd 2006 by Routledge.
more information about Intra-Asian Trade and the World MarketColonial Armies in Southeast Asia
Colonial armies were the focal points for some of the most dramatic tensions inherent in Chinese, Japanese and Western clashes with Southeast Asia. The international team...
ISBN: 978-0-415-33413-6 | Published December 22nd 2005 by Routledge.
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Prince Cuong De (1882-1951)
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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-29716-5 | Published October 12th 2005 by Routledge.
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1971-1989
After more than four decades the Cold War ended with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union. Almost simultaneously China emerged as the new potential...
ISBN: 978-0-415-35819-4 | Published August 3rd 2005 by Routledge.
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Bringing together contributions on the nature of corruption in East and Southeast Asia, this edited volume examines the means of limiting and ultimately eliminating corruption...
ISBN: 978-0-415-36904-6 | Published July 29th 2005 by Routledge.
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A Colonial Economy in Crisis
Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-30580-8 | Published March 9th 2005 by Routledge.
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Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle
The case of the cotton textile industry, 1945-1975
This book shows how, during the period of the Japanese economic miracle, a distinctive female employment system was developed alongside, and different from, the better...ISBN: 978-0-415-32805-0 | Published December 22nd 2004 by Routledge.
more information about Women, Work and the Japanese Economic MiracleThe British Empire and Tibet 1900-1922
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-34682-5 | Published September 30th 2004 by Routledge.
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If the People Are with Us
Nationalism in Southeast Asia seeks a definition of nationalism through examining its role in the history of southeast Asia, a region rarely included in general...ISBN: 978-0-415-33476-1 | Published August 26th 2004 by Routledge.
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This book examines the development of Thailand from the integration of Siam into the European world economy at the beginning of the nineteenth century, up...ISBN: 978-0-415-29725-7 | Published July 29th 2004 by Routledge.
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An Anthology of Travel Writing
Before Japan was 'opened up' in the 1850s, contact with Russia as well as other western maritime nations was extremely limited. Yet from the early...ISBN: 978-0-415-29730-1 | Published July 29th 2004 by Routledge.
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Gender, Nationalism and Democracy
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-33251-4 | Published July 1st 2004 by Routledge.
more information about Women's Suffrage in AsiaThe Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-1945
A patchwork of internment
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...ISBN: 978-0-7146-5592-5 | Published May 13th 2004 by Routledge.
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British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957-70
Neo-colonialism or Disengagement?
This book explores the limits of the idea of 'neo-colonialism' - the idea that in the period immediately after independence Malaya/Malaysia enjoyed only a 'pseudo-independence',...ISBN: 978-0-415-32320-8 | Published March 25th 2004 by Routledge.
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A Troubled Relationship
ISBN: 978-0-415-32602-5 | Published March 11th 2004 by Routledge.
more information about The United States and Cambodia, 1969-2000Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim
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,...ISBN: 978-0-415-13074-5 | Published February 19th 2004 by Routledge.
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From Curiosity to Confrontation
ISBN: 978-0-415-32332-1 | Published February 5th 2004 by Routledge.
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The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the first formal agreement of its type reached by a Western 'great' power with a non-Caucasian nation in the modern era....ISBN: 978-0-415-32611-7 | Published December 25th 2003 by Routledge.
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The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession
Adopting and Adapting Western Influences
In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked...ISBN: 978-0-415-30579-2 | Published November 13th 2003 by Routledge.
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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...ISBN: 978-0-415-29721-9 | Published July 24th 2003 by Routledge.
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In 1937, the Nationalists under Chiang Kaishek were leading the Chinese war effort against Japan and were lauded in the West for their efforts to...
ISBN: 978-0-415-14571-8 | Published June 12th 2003 by Routledge.
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One Country, Two Systems
Hong Kong in Transition offers a perspective on the exceptional constitutional and administrative experiment that has been taking place in Hong Kong, based on a...ISBN: 978-0-415-29954-1 | Published October 24th 2002 by Routledge.
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This book draws upon new theoretical insights and fresh bodies of data to historically reappraise partition in the light of its long aftermath. It uses...ISBN: 978-0-415-28908-5 | Published April 18th 2002 by Routledge.
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Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Japan's escape from colonialism and its subsequent industrialisation has taken it to the point where its economy is second only to that of the US....ISBN: 978-0-415-24444-2 | Published February 22nd 2001 by Routledge.
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The Case of the Punjab
This timely and significant study explores the reasons behind the rise in Sikh militancy over the 1970s and 1980s. It also evaluates the violent response...ISBN: 978-0-415-20108-7 | Published August 31st 2000 by Routledge.
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Drawing on a wide range of Chinese historical and contemporary texts, Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalism addresses diverse subjects including nationalist literature; language ideology; the crafting...ISBN: 978-0-415-22648-6 | Published May 18th 2000 by Routledge.
more information about Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural NationalismThe Triads as Business
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-17092-5 | Published November 18th 1999 by Routledge.
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Japan's Economic Advance into Singapore 1870-1965
This pioneering work examines Japan's economic activities in Singapore from 1870 to 1965. Drawing upon a wide range of published and unpublished sources, the authors...ISBN: 978-0-415-19236-1 | Published June 24th 1999 by Routledge.
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The Australia-Japan Political Alignment
1952 to the Present
In this new volume, Alan Rix examines the renewal of post-war contacts between Australia and Japan and the resolution of wartime issues in the 1950s....ISBN: 978-0-415-19781-6 | Published December 10th 1998 by Routledge.
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A New History
Jackie Sheehan traces the background and development of workers clashes with the Chinese Communist Party through mass campaigns such as the 1956-7 Hundred Flowers movement,...ISBN: 978-0-415-17206-6 | Published September 24th 1998 by Routledge.
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Control, Corruption and Resistance to Reform
Many Western commentators have expressed their admiration for the Japanese police system, tracing its origins to the American Occupation of Japan (1945-52).This study challenges the...
ISBN: 978-0-415-14526-8 | Published January 2nd 1997 by Routledge.
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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.
Forthcoming Titles:
The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia, Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean Region
Edited by Ashwini Tambe, Harald Fischer-Tiné
August 19th 2008
On The Borders of State Power, Frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
Edited by Martin Gainsborough
October 29th 2008
Port Cities in Asia and Europe
Edited by Arndt Graf, Chua Beng Huat
November 1st 2008
Pre-Communist Indochina
By R.B. Smith
Edited by Beryl Williams
November 15th 2008
Communist Indochina
By R.B. Smith
Edited by Beryl Williams
December 1st 2008
Moscow and the Emergence of Communist Power in China, 1925-30, The Nanchang Rising and the Birth of the Red Army
By Bruce Elleman
February 1st 2009
The International History of East Asia, 1900–1968, Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order
Edited by Antony Best
February 1st 2009
The Triads as Business
By Yiu-kong Chu
February 1st 2009
The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance
Edited by David Williams
April 30th 2009
The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45
By Ooi Keat Gin
November 30th 2009