China, East Asia and the Global Economy

Regional and Historical Perspectives

By Takeshi Hamashita

Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue durée, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and...

Published June 2nd 2008 by Routledge.

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Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia

The Korean Experience

Edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Soon-Won Park, Daqing Yang

Despite witnessing phenomenal economic growth and the spread of democratization in recent decades, as well as impressive intra-regional exchanges and interactions in the economic and...

Published April 2nd 2008 by Routledge.

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Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan

By David G. Wittner

In this book David Wittner situates Japan’s Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and industrial modernization within the realm of culture, politics, and symbolism, examining...

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.

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Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia

A Middleman Minority in a Transnational Era

By Pál Nyiri

Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe. However, until now, very little research has been...

Published October 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia

Fatally Belonging

By Ariel Heryanto

Approximately one million innocent Indonesians were killed by their fellow nationals, neighbours and kin at the height of an anti-communist campaign in the mid-1960s. This...

Published September 1st 2007 by Routledge.

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Russia and Iran in the Great Game

Travelogues and Orientalism

By Elena Andreeva

This book examines the Russian explorers and officials in the nineteenth and early twentieth century who came into contact with Iran as a part of...

Published June 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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China Stands Up

The PRC and the International System

By David Scott

In 1949 Mao Zedong made the historic proclamation that "the Chinese people have stood up". This statement was significant, undoubtedly reflecting the changing nature not...

Published May 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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Peasants and Revolution in Rural China

Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949

By Chang Liu

This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to 1949 to help us understand China’s transformation from a weak, decaying agrarian empire to...

Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge.

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Russian Military Intelligence in the War with Japan, 1904-05

Secret Operations on Land and at Sea

By Evgeny Sergeev

Examining Russian military intelligence in the war with Japan of 1904-05, this book, based on newly-accessible documents from the tsarist era military, naval and diplomatic...

Published April 25th 2007 by Routledge.

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Chinese Military Strategy in the Third Indochina War

The Last Maoist War

By Edward C. O'Dowd

This well-researched volume examines the Sino-Vietnamese hostilities of the late 1970s and 1980s, attempting to understand them as strategic, operational and tactical events.

The Sino-Vietnamese...

Published April 19th 2007 by Routledge.

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