Book Series
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
New & Published Titles:
Religion and Nationalism in India
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… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-415-20108-7 (Routledge)
Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalism
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… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-415-22648-6 (Routledge)
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The 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… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-17092-5 (Routledge)
Japan and Singapore in the World Economy
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 Drawing upon a wide range of published and unpublished sources, the authors… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-19236-1 (Routledge)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.… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-19781-6 (Routledge)
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Chinese Workers
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,… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-17206-6 (Routledge)
The Police In Occupation Japan
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… read more
1997 | Hardback: 978-0-415-14526-8 (Routledge)
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:
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 14th 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 15th 2010
The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45
By Ooi Keat Gin
To be published June 15th 2010
The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance
Edited by David Williams
To be published July 17th 2010
National Pasts in Europe and East Asia
By Peter W. Preston
To be published July 31st 2010
Post-War Repatriation to Defeated Japan
By BEATRICE TREFALT
To be published August 30th 2010