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By Peter Armstrong

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…

Hardback – 2019-07-31 
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Edited by James Beattie, Richard Bullen, Maria Galikowski

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…

Hardback – 2019-05-08 
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By Quinn Javers

Exploring local practices of dispute resolution and laying bare the routine role of violence in the late-Qing dynasty, Conflict, Community, and the State in Late Imperial Sichuan demonstrates the significance of everyday violence in ordering, disciplining, and building communities. The book…

Hardback – 2019-03-11 
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By Fion Wai Ling So

This book explores the economic development of the northern Chinese city of Qingdao, which was held by Germany as a colony from 1898 to 1914. It focuses especially on the economic polices of the German colonial government and of the provincial government of the neighbouring Chinese province of…

Hardback – 2019-01-23
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Edited by Geoff Wade, James K. Chin

Spanning over a millennium of history, this book seeks to describe and define the evolution of the China–Southeast Asia nexus and the interactions which have shaped their shared pasts. Examining the relationships which have proven integral to connecting Northeast and Southeast Asia with other…

Hardback – 2019-01-08
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By Erik Ropers

Shedding new light on how the histories of zainichi Koreans have been written, consumed, and discussed, this book addresses the roots of postwar debates concerning the wartime experiences of Koreans in Japan. Providing an overview of the complicated historiography, it explores the experiences of…

Hardback – 2018-12-20
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Jackie Sheehan

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, the Cultural Revolution, the April Fifth Movement of 1976, Democracy Wall and the 1989 Democracy Movement. The author provides…

Paperback – 2018-12-19
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Sue Thompson

The Nixon or Guam Doctrine of 1969 stressed the importance of progress towards regional cooperation and Asian collective security, indicating that Asian countries themselves should take the initiative in creating programs in which the United States could participate. This book analyses the…

Hardback – 2018-11-28
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By June Grasso

In the decade leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time when Japan was expanding its influence in Asia, several Japanese institutions set about trying to convince Americans to support Tokyo’s plans and ambitions for China. This book seeks to analyze the original publications produced by…

Hardback – 2018-11-26
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Edited by Pia Maria Jolliffe, Thomas Richard Bruce

How particular has Southeast Asia’s experience of educational development been, and has this led to an identifiably distinct Southeast Asian approach to the provision of education? Inquiry　into these questions has significant consequences for our understanding of the current state of education in…

Hardback – 2018-11-07
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By Qiliang He

Offering an entirely new approach to understanding China’s journalism history, this book covers the Chinese periodical press in the first half of the twentieth century. By focusing on five cases, either occurring in or in relation to the year 1917, this book emphasizes the protean nature of the…

Hardback – 2018-10-02
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By Ruiping Ye

The dispossession of indigenous peoples by conquest regimes remains a pressing issue. This book, unlike most other books on the subject, contrasts two different colonial administrations – first the Chinese Qing Empire, then, from 1895, the Japanese. It shows how , under the Chinese legal system,…

Hardback – 2018-08-17
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By Mayumi Ohara, John Buchanan

In 1945 Japan had to adjust very rapidly to sudden defeat, to the arrival of the American Occupation and to the encounter with the English language, together with a different outlook on many aspects of society and government. This scholarly book is based on in-depth interviews with people, now aged…

Hardback – 2018-06-28
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Edited by Yasuko Claremont

This book brings together discussions of leading aspects and repercussions of the Asia-Pacific War, which still have huge relevance today. From the development of war guilt to the vivid effect of art on bringing alive the realities of the war, it analyses a diversity of post-war issues in the…

Hardback – 2018-05-23
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Edited by Robert Bickers, Jonathan J. Howlett

This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as fi nance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on…

Paperback – 2018-04-25
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Michael Shin

Modern Korean nationalism has been shaped by the turbulent historical forces that shook and transformed the peninsula during the twentieth century, including foreign occupation, civil war, and division. This book examines the emergence of the nation as the hegemonic form of collective identity…

Hardback – 2018-04-10
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Edited by Barak Kushner, Sherzod Muminov

The end of Japan’s empire appeared to happen very suddenly and cleanly – but, as this book shows, it was in fact very messy, with a long period of establishing or re-establishing the postwar order. Moreover, as the authors argue, empires have afterlives, which, in the case of Japan’s empire, is not…

Paperback – 2018-02-06
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By Robert Aldrich

Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants – the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day, providing a history of homosexuality, travel and…

Paperback – 2018-01-24
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By Matthew Phillips

Thailand’s position during the Cold War was ambiguous: the country’s political leadership was very keen to maintain the country’s independence on the world stage, yet at the same time was anxious to establish the country’s credentials as staunchly anti-communist. However, as this book argues,…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Lauri Paltemaa

China suffers frequently from many types of natural disasters, which have affected the lives of many millions of Chinese. The steps which the Chinese state has taken to prevent disasters, mitigate their consequences, and reconstruct in the aftermath of disasters are therefore key issues. This book…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Edited by Ooi Keat Gin, Hoang Anh Tuan

This book presents extensive new research findings on and new thinking about Southeast Asia in this interesting, richly diverse, but much understudied period. It examines the wide and well-developed trading networks, explores the different kinds of regimes and the nature of power and security,…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Gerald Groemer

This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and makeshift outdoor performance spaces in Edo/Tokyo. For some three hundred years…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Edited by Robert Bickers, Isabella Jackson

This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction of…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Bruce A. Elleman

China's recent economic reforms have opened its economy to the world. This policy, however, is not new: in the late nineteenth century, the United States put forward the Open Door Policy as a counter to European exclusive 'spheres of influence' in China. This book, based on extensive original…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Dagfinn Gatu

Writings on post-war Japanese politics have tended to take for granted the dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as inevitable, without questioning how this came about. This book analyses the nature of Japanese party politics over the first four decades following the Second World War,…

Paperback – 2018-01-03
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Edited by Antony Best

The decline of British power in Asia, from a high point in 1905, when Britain’s ally Japan vanquished the Russian Empire, apparently reducing the perceived threat that Russia posed to its influence in India and China, to the end of the twentieth century, when British power had dwindled to virtually…

Paperback – 2017-12-22
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Ka-che Yip, Yuen Sang Leung, Man Kong Timothy Wong

Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, plague, venereal disease, avian flu and SARS, this book also examines how the successive government regimes in Hong Kong took action to prevent diseases and control…

Paperback – 2017-12-21
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Edited by Philip A. Seaton

Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, barely features in most histories of the Second World War. However, the combination of distinctive war experiences, a vibrant set of local historian groups, and powerful media organizations disseminating local war history, has generated an identifiable…

Paperback – 2017-11-22
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Edited by Liping Bu, Ka-che Yip

This book, based on extensive original research, considers the transformation of public health systems in major East, South and Southeast Asian countries in the period following the Second World War. It examines how public health concepts, policies, institutions and practices were improved, shows…

Paperback – 2017-10-27
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Ong Weichong

The Malayan Communist Party’s (MCP) decisive defeat in 1960 led many academics and Counterinsurgency (COIN) experts to overlook the resurrection of its armed struggle in 1968. Most scholars continue to regard the so-called ‘Second Emergency’ in Malaysia (1968-1989) as a non-event, and most of the…

Paperback – 2017-10-27
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné, Jana Tschurenev

At the beginning of the 21st century, alcoholism, transnational drug trafficking and drug addiction constitute major problems in various South Asian countries. The production, circulation and consumption of intoxicating substances created (and responded to) social upheavals in the region and had…

Paperback – 2017-10-26
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Edited by Natasa Miskovic, Harald Fischer-Tiné, Nada Boskovska

The idea of non-alignment and peaceful coexistence was not new when Yugoslavia hosted the Belgrade Summit of the Non-Aligned in September 1961. Freedom activists from the colonies in Asia, Africa, and South America had been discussing such issues for decades already, but this long-lasting context…

Paperback – 2017-10-26
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Chan Yang

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…

Hardback – 2017-10-13
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Edited by Katrine K. Wong, C.X. George Wei

Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. As an entity with independent political power and a unique social setting and cultural development,…

Paperback – 2017-10-13
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Kaori Abe

The traditional view of the Hong Kong colonial economy is that it was dominated by Western companies, notably the great British merchant houses, and that these firms enlisted support from Chinese middlemen – the compradors – who were effectively agents working for the Western firms. This book,…

Hardback – 2017-09-13
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja

Although colonies are often viewed as having been of crucial economic importance to Britain’s empire, those responsible for administering the colonies were often not at all interested in or supportive of commercial ventures, as this book demonstrates. Based on extensive original research, and…

Hardback – 2017-08-24
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Clemens Six

The intensifying conflicts between religious communities in contemporary South and Southeast Asia signify the importance of gaining a clearer understanding of how societies have historically organised and mastered their religious diversity. Based on extensive archival research in Asia, Europe, and…

Hardback – 2017-07-06
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Edited by David G. Wittner, Philip C Brown

Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerging non-Western country that was a colonial power in its own right, Japan utilized these fields not only to define itself as racially…

Paperback – 2017-06-16
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Nicholas Tarling

Southeast Asia serves as an excellent case study to discuss major transformations in the relationship between states. This book looks at the changing nature of relationships between countries in Southeast Asia, as well as their relationships with other states in Asia and beyond. A diverse region…

Paperback – 2017-06-16
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Kristin Mulready-Stone

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, youth emerged as a new and important social force in many parts of the world. In China the image of this new youth imprinted itself on Chinese consciousness and made clear to potential national leaders that future governments would not be able…

Paperback – 2017-05-25
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Edited by Christina Twomey, Ernest Koh

The Pacific War is an umbrella term that refers collectively to a disparate set of wars, however, this book presents a strong case for considering this assemblage of conflicts as a collective, singular war. It highlights the genuine thematic commonalities in the legacies of war that cohere across…

Paperback – 2017-05-24
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Edited by Svetlana Paichadze, Philip A. Seaton

In the nineteenth century, as the Russian empire expanded eastwards and the Japanese empire expanded onto the Asian continent, the Russo-Japanese border became contested on and around the island of Sakhalin, its Russian name, or Karafuto, as it is known in Japanese. Then in the wake of the…

Paperback – 2017-05-24
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Edited by Michael S. Dodson, Brian A. Hatcher

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…

Paperback – 2017-05-24
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Edited by Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin, Kenneth R. Hall

Using a unique "old–new" treatment, this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original, primary research, it reinterprets and revises several long-held conventional views in the field, covering the period from the "…

Paperback – 2017-05-18
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Michael Dillon

Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road, a region of overlapping cultures, the province was virtually independent until the late nineteenth century, nominally part of the…

Paperback – 2017-05-10
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Edited by Shigeru Akita, Gerold Krozewski, Shoichi Watanabe

In Asia the 1950s were dominated by political decolonization and the emergence of the Cold War system, and newly independent countries were able to utilize the transformed balance of power for their own economic development through economic and strategic aid programmes. This book examines the…

Paperback – 2017-04-16
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By Liping Bu

This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China’s public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China’s rise. It outlines the phenomenal improvements in public health, for example the increase in life expectancy from 38 in…

Hardback – 2017-03-07
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By David Williams

The transcripts of the three Kyoto School roundtable discussions of the theme of ‘the standpoint of world history and Japan’ may now be judged to form the key source text of responsible Pacific War revisionism. Published in the pages of Chuo Koron, the influential magazine of enlightened elite…

Paperback – 2016-12-09
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By Nicholas Tarling

This book analyses the notion of neutrality to the politics of the state in Southeast Asia. Distinguishing among neutrality, neutralism and neutralisation, it asks what relation do the concepts bear to the independence of states, and how do they relate to other forms of inter-state relations and to…

Hardback – 2016-10-07
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Takii Kazuhiro

The brilliant and influential statesman, Itō Hirobumi (1841-1909), and the first prime minister of Japan’s modern state, has been poorly understood. This biography attempts to set the record straight about Itō’s thought and vision for Japan’s modernisation based on research in primary sources. It…

Paperback – 2016-07-29
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