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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 …
Military Force and Elite Power in the Formation of Modern China
The China we know today emerged at the end of a long period of internal rebellions, civil wars, foreign invasions, and revolutionary insurrections that stretched across the …
China's Political Economy in Modern Times
This book makes an important contribution to the study of changes in China’s institutions and their impact on the national economy as well as ordinary people’s daily material life …
Women in Asia under the Japanese Empire
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 …
The United States and Southeast Asian Regionalism
The Nixon or Guam Doctrine of 1969 stressed the importance of progress towards regional cooperation and Asian collective security, indicating that Asian countries themselves should …
Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia
Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death Railway’ between Burma …
Britain's Imperial Retreat from China, 1900-1931
Britain’s relationship with China in the nineteenth and early twentieth century is often viewed in terms of gunboat diplomacy, unequal treaties, and the unrelenting pursuit of …
Changing Visions of East Asia, 1943-93
Ralph Smith was a highly respected historian who, at the time of his death in December 2000, had nearly completed a manuscript chronicling changes in the East Asia region since …
Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought
Lee Kuan Yew, as the founding father of independent Singapore, has had an enormous impact on the development of Singapore and of Southeast Asia more generally. Even in his 80s he …
Chinese Workers
Jackie Sheehan traces the background and development of workers clashes with the Chinese Communist Party through mass campaigns such as the 1956-7 Hundred Flowers movement, the …