Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience

The Changi Prisoner of War Camp in Singapore, 1942-45

By R P W Havers, R. P. W. Havers

Popular perceptions of life in Japanese prisoner of war camps are dominated by images of emaciated figures, engaged in slave labour, and badly treated by...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1657-9 (Routledge)

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Kings, Country and Constitutions

Thailand's Political Development 1932-2000

By Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian

Provides a detailed analysis of Thailand's political development since 1932, when Thailand became a constitutional monarchy, until the present. It examines the large number of...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1473-5 (Routledge)

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Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941

Kedah and Penang

By Wu Xiao An

This book examines how Chinese family and business networks, focused around activities such as revenue farming, including opium, the rice trade, and pawnbroking, and related...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30176-3 (Routledge)

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A Chinese Physician

Wang Ji and the Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories

By Joanna Grant

A Chinese Physician is the portrait of a 16th century medical writer and clinical practitioner. Drawing on socio-economic/biographic, textual, and gender analysis along side a...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29758-5 (Routledge)

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Pacific Asia

By Yumei Zhang

Pacific Asia has witnessed arguably the most dynamic economic growth and social transformation in the world since 1945. Inspired by the example of Japan, a...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-18489-2 (Routledge)

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Europe and the Asia-Pacific

Culture, Identity and Representations of Region

By Stephanie Lawson

The many points of contact and conflict about culture and identity that exist between Europe and the Asia Pacific are highlighted in this book. This...

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29724-0 (Routledge)

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Buddhas and Kami in Japan

Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm

Edited by Fabio Rambelli, Mark Teeuwen

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their...

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29747-9 (Routledge)

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Turkestan and the Fate of the Russian Empire

By Daniel Brower

The central argument of this book is that the half-century of Russian rule in Central Asia was shaped by traditions of authoritarian rule, by Russian...

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29744-8 (Routledge)

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Afghanistan - A New History

By Sir Martin Ewans, Martin Ewans

Sir Martin Ewans, former Head of the British Chancery in Kabul, puts into an historical and contemporary context the series of tragic events that have...

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29826-1 (Routledge)

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Twentieth-Century China

New Approaches

Edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Twentieth Century China: New Approaches is an important revisionist study of China's recent past. The chapters throw light on a variety of subjects within the...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19504-1 (Routledge)

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