An attempt to rethink the traditional interpretations of the victory of Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949. Part of the focus is on the activities of the student-intellectual-based communist underground, and the crucial role they played.
Weeks after his 30th birthday in November 1896, Sun Yatsen, often seen as the founder of modern China, was hard at work planning a new book in English..
As East Asia regains its historical position as a world centre, information on the history of regional relations becomes ever more critical. Northeast..
This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema. Drawing on a wide range of films and scholarly disc..
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This book explores the key developments of the contentious political and security issues in the Asia-Pacific that share a common f..
With a focus on cross-border dialogue, Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border reveals the lives of the ordinary people in the border regions b..
Few phases of history were as heavy with implications for the world at large than the turbulent years through which China moved from the overthrow of ..
This concise account of the life and career of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881--1938), the formidable "founder of modern Turkey", offers a substantial rev..
The past hundred years in China have seen almost continuous transformation and upheaval. From Confucianist monarchy to warlordism, from fanatically d..
By 1925, the process of Japan's transition to a modern industrialised, westernised state was pretty much complete. This impressive survey looks at de..
The Ottoman Empire had reached the peak of its power, presenting a very real threat to Western Christendom when in 1683 it suffered its first major de..
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Near East underwent profound changes. Most obviously these were political: after six hundred ..
This book examines the local realities and environmental changes in East Asia, and is one of a few publications in English on the subject. Contributor..