Asian History Books

New and Published Books

1. Post-War Borneo, 1945-1950

   Nationalism, Empire and State-Building

   By Ooi Keat Gin

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book examines Borneo, both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in the period 1945-1950. Borneo then was at the crossroads. Following the Japanese Occupation, the likely future status of the various Bornean territories was not at all clear, and the book...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
2. Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan

   By Curtis Anderson Gayle

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese society was undergoing the transformation from imperial state to democratic nation. For certain working and middle-class women involved in...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism

   Spectacle, Politics and History

   By Hong Kal

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
4. Japan and the High Treason Incident

   Edited by Masako Gavin, Ben Middleton

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   The ‘High Treason Incident’ rocked Japanese society between 1910 and 1911, when police discovered that a group of anarchists and socialists were plotting to assassinate the Emperor Meiji. Following a trial held in camera, twelve of the so-called conspirators were hanged, but while the executions...

   Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
5. Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization

   A Comparative Analysis

   By Ming Sing

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong. It asks why democracy has been so long delayed when Hong Kong's level of socio-economic development has become so high. It relates democratization in Hong Kong to wider studies of the democratization process...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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 April 24th 2013 by Routledge
7. Modern Japan and its Problems

   By G Allen

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   The author, who was for several years a lecturer in a Japanese Government College, has tried to interpret the civilization and national character of Japan in the light of his experience and of his studies in that country. He describes the novel problems and phenomena which have been created by the...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
8. Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia

   Studies in Taiwan-Japan Relations

   Edited by Adam Clulow

   Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that explores the intertwined histories of Taiwan and Japan across the long sweep of the early modern and modern periods. Drawing on new research by scholars from Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, it moves...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
9. Origins of the War in the East

   By Aron Shai

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   This study describes the British government’s policy towards China during the first phases of the undeclared Sino-Japanese war, starting in July 1937 when the conflict in North China culminated in all-out hostilities; and ending in September 1939 when the outbreak of the war over Poland forced the...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
10. Spirals of Contention

    Why India was Partitioned in 1947

    By Satish Saberwal

    This study examines the social and psychological processes that led to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It recognizes the long-term continuities in the idiom of conflict (as well as cooperation), and shows that, by 1900, the conflicts and animosities were gathering a...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge India