Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
About the Book Series
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.
Projecting British Ideas on Post-War Japan: Propaganda, Cultural Exchange and Overseas Information Policy, 1945–1975
1st Edition
By Yoshiomi Saito
August 21, 2025
Drawing from a wide array of English and Japanese primary sources, Saito examines the pivotal role of Britain’s overseas information policy in shaping post-war Anglo–Japanese relations. While the historiography of post-war Japan’s international relations has predominantly centred on US–Japan ...
Alternative Histories of Development in Japan and East Asia: Unthinking Modernization, Recreating Lifeworlds
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy Amos, Akiko Ishii, Samson Lim
August 15, 2025
This book examines the history of development in East Asia in terms of material change and human-nature relations from the perspectives of people living in Asia in modern and pre-modern periods. By challenging the reader to “unthink” what modern development is, each chapter offers a case study ...
Nation Building in Japan, 1945–1952: The Allied Occupation and the US-Japan Alliance
1st Edition
By Peter K. Frost
July 30, 2025
This book analyzes the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952). It begins by explaining why Japan spent roughly fifty years building its own colonial system and declaring war on China and the Western Allies, only to decide after military defeats, two atomic bombings and the Soviet declaration of war...
US-China Naval Co-operation Against the Soviet Union: Carter’s Navy
1st Edition
By Bruce A. Elleman
July 25, 2025
This book discusses the key role of the transfer of naval technology from the U.S. to China in building up the Chinese Navy during the Cold War. Revealing how this process began in the late 1970s under the Carter Administration when Deng Xiaoping was newly in power, and how it accelerated under ...
Coalition Navies during the Korean War: Understanding Combined Naval Operations
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Bowers
June 27, 2025
This book presents a detailed assessment of the role of navies in the Korean War. It highlights that, despite being predominantly a land war, navies played a vital part. Moreover, the naval war was not solely a U.S. operation. Smaller navies from many countries made important contributions both in ...
Histories of Children and Childhood in Meiji Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Galan, Harald Salomon
June 27, 2025
This book bridges the gap between historical research on Japan and the field of childhood history by writing children and childhood into the general historical record of the Meiji period. To explore the widely varying circumstances of childhood during the Japanese transition to modernity, the ...
Japanese Diplomacy and East Asian International Politics, 1918–1931
1st Edition
By Ryuji Hattori
May 27, 2025
This book provides an overall picture of East Asian international politics during the early interwar period and examines the various foreign policy trends of the major powers involved, including Japan, China, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Based on extensive original research, it...
Pandemics in Singapore, 1819–2022: Lessons for the Age of COVID-19
1st Edition
By Kah Seng Loh, Li Yang Hsu
April 14, 2025
Singapore has faced many pandemics over the centuries, from plague, smallpox and cholera to influenza and novel coronaviruses. By examining how different governments responded, this book considers what we can learn from their experiences. Public health strategies in the city-state were often ...
Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore: The Malayan Generation, 1953 – 1963
1st Edition
By Thum Ping Tjin
December 19, 2024
Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore analyses Singapore’s decolonisation movement between 1953 and 1963 and provides a framework to understand the deepest and most important unresolved conflicts in Singaporean society. This book demonstrates how these conflicts stem from four unresolved ...
Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia: New Perspectives, 1894-1953
1st Edition
Edited
By Aglaia De Angeli, Peter Robinson, Peter O’Connor, Emma Reisz, Tsuchiya Reiko
December 18, 2024
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japan, China, and both Tsarist Russia and later the USSR, vied for imperial dominance in Northeast Asia. In the process, they contested and at the same time adopted many of the physical and rhetorical features of Old-World imperialism, mitigated...
Women in Asia under the Japanese Empire
1st Edition
Edited
By Tatsuya Kageki, Jiajia Yang
December 18, 2024
Contributors to this book provide an Asian women’s history from the perspective of gender analysis, assessing Japanese imperial policy and propaganda in its colonies and occupied territories and particularly its impact on women. Tackling topics including media, travel, migration, literature, and ...
Revisiting Colonialism and Colonial Labour: The South Asian Working Class in British Malaya
1st Edition
Edited
By Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja, Shivalinggam Raymond
November 28, 2024
This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism – that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon – needs to be rethought. It focuses on the experiences of the South Indian working class, large numbers of which came to Malaya in the early years of the twentieth century, emigrating from ...