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Post-War Repatriation to Defeated Japan
The repatriation of more than six million Japanese from overseas territories in the period between 1945 and the mid-1950shaad a major impact on Japanese culture and politics. The …
Secularism, Decolonisation, and the Cold War in South and Southeast Asia
The intensifying conflicts between religious communities in contemporary South and Southeast Asia signify the importance of gaining a clearer understanding of how societies have …
Chinese Complaint Systems
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 Visits System (xinfang zhidu), …
International Society in the Early Twentieth Century Asia-Pacific
Concentrating on the rivalry between the formal and informal empires of Great Britain, Japan and the United States of America, this book examines how regional relations were …
Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950
Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process. …
Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia
Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon and extends recent insights …
Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52
Whilst most facets of the Occupation of Japan have attracted much scholarly debate in recent decades, this is not the case with reforms relating to public health. The few studies …
War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945
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 transform China into an …
Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s
This book provides a detailed examination of Japan's diplomatic relations in the 1950s, an important decade in international affairs when new structures and systems emerged, and …
Journalism and Politics in Indonesia
Mochtar Lubis was one of Indonesia’s best-known newspaper editors, authors and cultural figures, with a national, regional and international prominence that he retained from the …
Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941-45
The important and previously undocumented event in the history of the Second World War: the negotiation of 'prisoner' exchanges between the United States and Japan during 1941 to …
Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015
This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China’s public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China’s …