Chinese Middlemen in Hong Kong's Colonial Economy, 1830-1890

Kaori Abe

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• The traditional view of the Hong Kong colonial economy is that it was dominated by Western companies, notably the great British merchant houses, and t... Lees meer

Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon a... Lees meer

Malaysia's Defeat of Armed Communism

Ong Weichong

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• The Malayan Communist Party's (MCP) decisive defeat in 1960 led many academics and Counterinsurgency (COIN) experts to overlook the resurrection of it... Lees meer

British Engagement with Japan, 1854-1922

Antony Best

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• This book by a leading authority on Anglo-Japanese relations reconsiders the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between ... Lees meer

The Rise and Decline of Thai Absolutism

Kullada Kesboonchoo Mead

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• This book examines the development of Thailand from the integration of Siam into the European world economy at the beginning of the nineteenth century... Lees meer

Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia | nr. 90
• Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting edge scholarship in the field of German-Indian and South Asian Studies, the book looks at the history of G... Lees meer

Nationalism in Southeast Asia

Nicholas Tarling

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Nationalism in Southeast Asia seeks a definition of nationalism through examining its role in the history of southeast Asia, a region rarely included ... Lees meer

China in Australasia

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Drawing on expertise in art history, exhibition studies and cultural studies as well as politics and international relations, China in Australasia pre... Lees meer

Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1350-1800

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• This book presents extensive new research findings on and new thinking about Southeast Asia in this interesting, richly diverse, but much understudied... Lees meer

Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c.1800-1945

James A Warren

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• During the nineteenth century there was a huge increase in the level and types of gambling in Thailand. Taxes on gambling became a major source of sta... Lees meer

Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle

Helen Macnaughtan

• Hardcover | Engels | 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

Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015

Liping Bu

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China's public health system, showing how advances in public health have be... Lees meer

Malaysia and the Cold War Era

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• From the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was a great deal of turmoil, tension and violence in w... Lees meer

Borneo and Sulawesi

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• 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 i... Lees meer

Journalism and Politics in Indonesia

David T Hill

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Mochtar Lubis was one of Indonesia's best-known newspaper editors, authors and cultural figures, with a national, regional and international prominenc... Lees meer

Singapore - Two Hundred Years of the Lion City

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Two hundred years after Singapore's foundation by Stamford Raffles in 1819, this book reflects on the historical development of the city, putting forw... Lees meer

Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China

Lars Peter Laamann

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Following the prohibition of missionary activity after 1724, China's Christians were effectively cut off from all foreign theological guidance. The en... Lees meer

British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957-70

Nicholas J White

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• This book explores the limits of the idea of 'neo-colonialism' - the idea that in the period immediately after independence Malaya/Malaysia enjoyed on... Lees meer

Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim

Ravi Palat

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• This book situates the evolution of capitalist economies along Asia's Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global, political and econ... Lees meer

Constitution-making in Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Britain's main imperial possessions in Asia were granted independence in the 1940s and 1950s and needed to craft constitutions for their new states. I... Lees meer

Rural Economic Development in Japan

Penelope Francks

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• In the historical literature on Japan, rural people have tended to be regarded as the exploited victims of the industrialisation process. This book pr... Lees meer

The Russian Discovery of Japan, 1670-1800

David N Wells

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• During the period of the Tokugawa shogunate's seclusion policy from about 1630 onwards there was very little European interaction with the Japanese ex... Lees meer

The International History of East Asia, 1900-1968

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• 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

A History of the Modern Chinese Navy, 1840-2020

Bruce A Elleman

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• This book provides a comprehensive history of the modern Chinese navy from 1840 to the present. Beginning with a survey of naval developments in earli... Lees meer