Asian History

This title was first published in 1981...

A systematic look at modern China's military campaigns and the actual fighting conducted by the People's Liberation Army since the founding of the People's Republic. It offers a general overview of the evolution of PLA military doctrine, and then focuses on major combat episodes from 1949 to 1999...

A systematic look at modern China's military campaigns and the actual fighting conducted by the People's Liberation Army since the founding of the People's Republic. It offers a general overview of the evolution of PLA military doctrine, and then focuses on major combat episodes from 1949 to 1999...

This book argues that as colonialism brought the concept of individual, as opposed to collective, land ownership to indigenous society, along with Western surveying techniques, the changes that resulted altered the relationship of the state to its citizens, and, thereby, the structure of local socie..

Written by the late Ralph Smith, a highly respected historian of Asia, this book examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s...

This work introduces contributions in the humanities by a select griup of traditional and modern Korean women, from the 15th through the 20th centuries. It aims to show how Korean women have tried to give their lives meaning over the ages through their diverse responses to life in Confucian Korea...

An acknowledged authority on the ‘classical’ period of Japanese history, the author reveals what the life of the Japanese people was like during these five centuries, and shows how a transformation of heart and mind produced a civilization as original as it was profound...

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...

Although later than the Portuguese in reaching the coasts of Asia, the Dutch became in the 17th and 18th centuries the most important of the European nations engaged in the Asian trade - in terms both of the quantity and value of the cargoes shipped, and the number of ports involved. In those centur..

This book presents new primary research on a range of aspects of early modern East Asia. Focusing primarily on maritime connections, the book explores the importance of international trade networks, the implications of technological dissemination, and the often unforeseen consequences of missionary ..

The Japanese society which emerged when Tokugawa Ieyasu had completed the process of pacifying warring baronies was neither literary, nor hardly literate. The Japan of 1868 was a very different society: practically every samurai was literate and it was a world in which books abounded. The transforma..

As China's global profile continues to rise in prominence, there is increasing interest in China, and the 3,000 year history of one of the world's earliest civilisations, particularly as previously restricted sources are opened up to researchers. The Encyclopedia of Chinese History covers the entire..