Book Series
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
New & Published Titles:
Provincial Life and the Military in Imperial Japan
The Phantom Samurai
In contrast to the enduring stereotype of a ‘nation of samurai’, this book uses provincial newspapers and local records to hear the voices of ordinary…
read moreOctober 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-49751-0 (Routledge)
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Russian Views of Japan, 1792-1913
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… read moreAugust 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54617-1 (Routledge)
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… read moreAugust 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54624-9 (Routledge)
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Japanese and Hong Kong Film Industries
Understanding the Origins of East Asian Film Networks
Drawing on first-hand materials collected from the Chinese and Japanese literature as well as interviews with more than twenty filmmakers and scholars Kinnia Shuk-ting Yau…
read moreJuly 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-49808-1 (Routledge)
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Colonialism, Violence and Muslims in Southeast Asia
The Maria Hertogh Controversy and its Aftermath
This book deals with the genesis, outbreak and far-reaching effects of a legal controversy and the resulting outbreak of mass violence, which determined the course…
read moreJune 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48594-4 (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…
read moreMay 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54541-9 (Routledge)
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…
read moreMay 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54582-2 (Routledge)
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…
read moreApril 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54553-2 (Routledge)
The Rise and Decline of Thai Absolutism
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… read moreApril 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54622-5 (Routledge)
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The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922
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.… read moreApril 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54628-7 (Routledge)
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Series Details:
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:
Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War
By Cheng Guan Ang
To be published November 12th 2009
Journalism and Politics in Indonesia: A Critical Biography of Mochtar Lubis (1922-2004) as Editor and Author
By David T. Hill
To be published November 27th 2009
The Cold War and National Assertion in Southeast Asia: Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948–1962
By Matthew Foley
To be published December 16th 2009
The International History of East Asia, 1900–1968: Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order
Edited by Antony Best
To be published December 18th 2009
Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia: Trial by Army
By Louise Barnett
To be published January 6th 2010
Southeast Asia and the Great Powers
By Nicholas Tarling
To be published January 8th 2010
National Pasts in Europe and East Asia
By Peter W. Preston
To be published March 31st 2010
The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance
Edited by David Williams
To be published May 17th 2010
The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45
By Ooi Keat Gin
To be published June 15th 2010
Post-War Repatriation to Defeated Japan
By BEATRICE TREFALT
To be published August 30th 2010