Korea's Development Under Park Chung Hee

By Hyung-A Kim

Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers of the 1970s, Korea's Development under Park Chung-Hee examines how the president sought to develop South Korea...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Did Singapore Have to Fall?

Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress

By Kevin Blackburn, Karl Hack

This book provides a sophisticated summary of up-to-date knowledge on the Fall of Singapore, including the critical tensions between Churchill and local commanders. A focus...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Asian Democracy in World History

By Alan T. Wood

Taking a comparative approach, Alan T. Wood traces the evolution of democracy from its origins in prehistoric times and describes democratic growth in thirteen Asian...

Published November 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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Xinjiang

China's Muslim Far Northwest

By Michael Dillon

Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous region in China's far northwest, is of increasing international strategic and economic importance. With a population which is mainly non-Chinese...

Published October 23rd 2003 by Routledge.

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China Since 1919 - Revolution and Reform

A Sourcebook

Edited by Alan Lawrance

This Sourcebook tells the momentous history of China since 1919 from the viewpoints of participants. Over 150 extracts from political statements, telegrams, speeches, memoirs, letters...

Published October 23rd 2003 by Routledge.

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Frontier Contact Between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan

By James B. Lewis

East Asia from 1400 to 1850 was a vibrant web of connections, and the southern coast of the Korean peninsula participated in a maritime world...

Published September 11th 2003 by Routledge.

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Language, Ideology and Japanese History Textbooks

By Christopher Barnard

The Japanese history textbook debate is one that keeps making the news, particularly with reference to claims that Japan has never 'apologised properly' for its...

Published August 14th 2003 by Routledge.

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Pre-tsarist and Tsarist Central Asia

Communal Commitment and Political Order in Change

By Paul Georg Geiss

This study, written from the perspective of political sociology, represents the first comparative examination of Central Asian communal and political organisation before and after the...

Published July 10th 2003 by Routledge.

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Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising Economy

The Textile Industry before the Pacific War

By Janet Hunter

During the period of industrialisation in Japan from the 1870s to the 1930s, the textile industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry, and the country's major...

Published June 26th 2003 by Routledge.

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War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945

By Hans van de Ven

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...

Published June 12th 2003 by Routledge.

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