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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia


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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.

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World War Two Legacies in East Asia China Remembers the War

World War Two Legacies in East Asia: China Remembers the War

1st Edition

By Chan Yang
December 12, 2019

How to remember World War Two in East Asia is a huge source of friction between China and Japan, causing major diplomatic and political difficulties right up to the present. As this book shows, however, there is also disagreement within these countries as to how to remember the war, which in the ...

Caste in Early Modern Japan Danzaemon and the Edo Outcaste Order

Caste in Early Modern Japan: Danzaemon and the Edo Outcaste Order

1st Edition

By Timothy Amos
December 10, 2019

"Caste", a word normally used in relation to the Indian subcontinent, is rarely associated with Japan in contemporary scholarship. This has not always been the case, and the term was often used among earlier generations of scholars, who introduced the Buraku problem to Western audiences. Amos ...

Borneo and Sulawesi Indigenous Peoples, Empires and Area Studies

Borneo and Sulawesi: Indigenous Peoples, Empires and Area Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Ooi Keat Gin
December 05, 2019

This book presents a great deal of new research findings on the history of Borneo, the history of Sulawesi and the interrelationship between the two islands. Some specific chapters focus on empires and colonizers, including the activities of James Brooke in Sulawesi, of Chinese mining communities ...

Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018 Disease, Society and the State

Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018: Disease, Society and the State

1st Edition

By Kah Seng Loh, Li Yang Hsu
November 28, 2019

Through a rich account of tuberculosis in Singapore from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, this book charts the relationship between disease, society and the state, outlining the struggles of colonial and post-colonial governments to cope with widespread disease and to establish ...

Singapore – Two Hundred Years of the Lion City

Singapore – Two Hundred Years of the Lion City

1st Edition

Edited By Anthony Webster, Nicholas White
November 01, 2019

Two hundred years after Singapore’s foundation by Stamford Raffles in 1819, this book reflects on the historical development of the city, putting forward much new research and new thinking. It discusses Singapore’s emergence as a regional economic hub, explores its strategic importance and ...

International Rivalry and Secret Diplomacy in East Asia, 1896-1950

International Rivalry and Secret Diplomacy in East Asia, 1896-1950

1st Edition

By Bruce Elleman
September 18, 2019

East Asia was a major focus of struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War of 1945 to 1991, with multiple "hot" and "cold" conflicts in China, Korea, and Vietnam. The struggle for predominance in East Asia, however, largely predated the Cold War, as this book shows, ...

The Russian Discovery of Japan, 1670–1800

The Russian Discovery of Japan, 1670–1800

1st Edition

By David N. Wells
September 04, 2019

During the period of the Tokugawa shogunate’s seclusion policy from about 1630 onwards there was very little European interaction with the Japanese except through the restricted Dutch presence at Nagasaki. During this period, however, Russians exploring Siberia and the Russian Far East ...

Borneo in the Cold War, 1950-1990

Borneo in the Cold War, 1950-1990

1st Edition

By Keat Gin Ooi
August 06, 2019

Although by about 1950 both British Borneo, including the protected sultanate of Brunei, and Indonesian Borneo seemed settled under their different regimes and well on the way to post-war reconstruction and economic development, the upheavals which affected Southeast and East Asia during the Cold ...

Ulysses S. Grant and Meiji Japan, 1869-1885 Diplomacy, Strategic Thought and the Economic Context of US-Japan Relations

Ulysses S. Grant and Meiji Japan, 1869-1885: Diplomacy, Strategic Thought and the Economic Context of US-Japan Relations

1st Edition

By Ian Patrick Austin
June 17, 2019

Ulysses S Grant, besides being the General-in-Chief of the Union armies at the time of the Union victory in the American Civil War, was also President, 1869–1878, at a time when the United States was undergoing significant transformations, both economically and strategically, and growing in ...

Lord Salisbury and Nationality in the East Viewing Imperialism in its Proper Perspective

Lord Salisbury and Nationality in the East: Viewing Imperialism in its Proper Perspective

1st Edition

By Shih-tsung Wang
June 10, 2019

This study explains how Salisbury viewed cultural conflicts between the East and the West, how he treated Oriental nationality and nationalist aspirations in British dominions in the East, and how he directed British policy in the Eastern world in a time when the Western Powers were plunging into a...

Hagi - A Feudal Capital in Tokugawa Japan

Hagi - A Feudal Capital in Tokugawa Japan

1st Edition

By Peter Armstrong
June 07, 2019

The western Japanese city of Hagi is the town in Japan which has preserved the greatest level of Tokugawa period (1600-1868) urban and architectural fabric. As such it is a major tourist destination for both Japanese and non-Japanese visitors. The city is also very important historically in that it...

China in Australasia Cultural Diplomacy and Chinese Arts since the Cold War

China in Australasia: Cultural Diplomacy and Chinese Arts since the Cold War

1st Edition

Edited By James Beattie, Richard Bullen, Maria Galikowski
April 25, 2019

Drawing on expertise in art history, exhibition studies and cultural studies as well as politics and international relations, China in Australasia presents significant new perspectives on the role of art in the cultural diplomacy of the People’s Republic of China. The book tells the forgotten ...

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