Japan's Postwar Economic Recovery and Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1948-1962

Noriko Yokoi

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia | nr. 12
• Ever since Japan's economy recovered in the 1960s, scholars have been searching for the reasons for its meteoric postwar success. Until now, much rese... Lees meer

Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan

Denis Gainty

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in ... Lees meer

The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• The Russo-Japanese War was the major conflict of the earliest decade of the twentieth century. The struggle for mastery in northeast Asia, specificall... Lees meer

Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941-45

Bruce Elleman

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia | nr. 37
• The important and previously undocumented event in the history of the Second World War: the negotiation of 'prisoner' exchanges between the United Sta... Lees meer

Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan

Denis Gainty

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in ... Lees meer

Cold War Cities

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• This book is a dynamic study of the range of experiences of the Cold War in Europe, East Asia and Southeast Asia in the 20th century. Comprised of ten... Lees meer

Japan's Pan-Asian Empire

Seok-Won Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• This book is a study of how the theories and actual practices of a Pan-Asian empire were produced during Japan's war, 1931-1945. As Japan invaded Chin... Lees meer

War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945

Hans Van de Ven

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia | nr. 10
• In 1937, the Nationalists under Chiang Kaishek were leading the Chinese war effort against Japan and were lauded in the West for their efforts to tran... Lees meer

Museums in China

Tracey Lie Dan Lu

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the... Lees meer

Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia | nr. 48
• Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the '... Lees meer

Provincial Life and the Military in Imperial Japan

Stewart Lone

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• 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... Lees meer

Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought

Ang Cheng Guan

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Building on the author's 2012 book, Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought , this new book presents a comprehensive overview of Lee Kuan Yew's strategic tho... Lees meer

Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle

Helen Macnaughtan

• Hardcover | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• This book shows how, during the period of the Japanese economic miracle, a distinctive female employment system was developed alongside, and different... Lees meer

Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers

Hsiao-Ting Lin

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• The purpose of this book is to examine the strategies and practices of the Han Chinese Nationalists vis-à-vis post-Qing China's ethnic minorities, as ... Lees meer

Port Cities in Asia and Europe

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• With the demise of European socialist economies and the marketization of Asian communist countries, a new global capitalism has reshaped the configura... Lees meer

Russian Views of Japan, 1792-1913

David N Wells

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• 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 eig... Lees meer

Caste in Early Modern Japan

Timothy Amos

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• "Caste", a word normally used in relation to the Indian subcontinent, is rarely associated with Japan in contemporary scholarship. This has not always... Lees meer

Regionalism in Southeast Asia

Nicholas Tarling

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia | nr. 38
• Regionalism in Southeast Asia provides the reader with an historical analysis of Southeast Asia from the distinct perspective of regionalism. Southeas... Lees meer

Chinese Complaint Systems

Qiang Fang

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• Complaint systems have existed in China for many years, and in 2004, a debate took place in the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the Letters and ... Lees meer

Pre-Communist Indochina

R B Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | 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... Lees meer

The British Empire and Tibet 1900-1922

Wendy Palace

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• In August 1904 Sir Francis Younghusband's invasion force reached the forbidden city of Lhasa. The British invasion of Tibet in 1903 acted as a catalys... Lees meer

The International History of East Asia, 1900-1968

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• 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 t... Lees meer

Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market

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• Intra-Asian trade is a major theme of recent writing on Asian economic history. From the second half of the nineteenth century, intra-Asian trade flow... Lees meer

Revisiting Japan's Restoration

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• This volume presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study of the Meiji Restoration. The chapters... Lees meer