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1. Business-Government Relations in Prewar Japan

   By Peter von Staden

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   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 and evolved with the often fluid economic and political circumstances. As both business and government had vested...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. On The Borders of State Power

   Frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

   Edited by Martin Gainsborough

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   On The Borders of State Power explores the changing nature, meaning and significance of international borders over time in the area referred to today as the Greater Mekong Sub-region, incorporating Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and China’s Yunnan province. An international line up...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Port Cities in Asia and Europe

   Edited by Arndt Graf, Chua Beng Huat

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   With the demise of European socialist economies and the marketization of Asian communist countries, a new global capitalism has reshaped the configuration of the world economy, with speed a determining factor to all transactions of information, finance, goods and services and people. Sea-ports...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Pre-Communist Indochina

   By R.B. Smith

   Edited by Beryl Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book explores the history of pre-communist Indochina, from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. It examines the early state of Vietnam, comparing and contrasting its political and social systems, with both those of neighbouring states such as Thailand and those prevalent at the time in Europe....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. National Pasts in Europe and East Asia

   By Peter W. Preston

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   With the rise of industrial capitalism in Europe and the related imposition of colonial rule in much of East Asia, both Europe and East Asia have intertwined histories that continue to shape their political thinking and political decision making. The contemporary interactions of the two regions –...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. The International History of East Asia, 1900–1968

   Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order

   Edited by Antony Best

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book provides a broad account of the international history of East Asia from 1900 to 1968 - a subject that is essential to any understanding of the modern epoch. Whereas much of the scholarship on this subject has focused purely on the immediate origins and consequences of violent events such...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Cold War and National Assertion in Southeast Asia

   Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948–1962

   By Matthew Foley

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book charts British and American approaches to Burma between the country’s independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 and the military coup that ended civilian government in 1962. It analyses the fundamental drivers of Anglo-American policy-making during this crucial period – assumptions,...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia

   Edited by Michael S. Dodson, Brian A. Hatcher

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon and extends recent insights into the constitutive and multiple projects of colonial modernity. Eschewing the fashionable binaries of resistance and...

   Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession

    Adopting and Adapting Western Influences

    By Aya Takahashi

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

    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 to the west. This book tells the story of 'Florence Nightingale-ism' in Japan, showing how Japanese nursing developed from 1868 to the present. It...

    Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge