This text examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the 20th century.
This text examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over ...
This book critically examines public health reform during the Occupation of Japan and interrogates the reforms broader significance for the Occupation and its legacies for both Japan and the US.
This book critically examines public health reform during the Occupation of Japan and interrogates the reforms broader significance for the Occupation...
Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road, a region of overlapping cultures, the province was virtually independent until the late nineteenth century, nominally part of the Qing Empire, with considerable interest taken in it by the British and the Russians as part of their Great Game rivalry in Asia. Ruled by warlords in the early twentieth century, it was occupied in 1949-50 by the People's Liberation Army, since when attempts have been made to integrate the...
Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, was for most of its history contested territor...
One surprising outcome of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904OCo1905 was that, although Russia was humiliatingly defeated, by 1916 Russia and Japan had become allies. This book provides a detailed analysis of how this remarkable turnaround came about. It traces the evolution of relations between the two powers through the conclusion of three public and secret agreements in 1907, 1910, and 1912, and the controversial secret alliance of 1916. The book argues that careful examination of complete records of negotiations from both sides definitively proves the case for Germany, not the United...
One surprising outcome of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904OCo1905 was that, although Russia was humiliatingly defeated, by 1916 Russia and Japan had ...
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 nineteenth century to the mid-point of the twentieth. This book explores one important consequence of this situation-the increased role of military force in the determination of elite social, political, and economic power, and presents fascinating case studies of the warlords, militia leaders, and military officers who benefited from this. Examining the intersection of military force and elite power in the formative years...
The China we know today emerged at the end of a long period of internal rebellions, civil wars, foreign invasions, and revolutionary insurrections tha...
The brilliant and influential statesman, It Hirobumi (1841-1909), and the first prime minister of Japan s modern state, has been poorly understood. This biography attempts to set the record straight about It s thought and vision for Japan s modernisation based on research in primary sources. It outlines It s life: the son of a poor farmer, he showed exceptional talent as a boy and was sent to study in Europe and the United States. He returned home convinced that Western civilisation was the only viable path for Japan. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, It became a powerful...
The brilliant and influential statesman, It Hirobumi (1841-1909), and the first prime minister of Japan s modern state, has been poorly understood....
The Japanese economy underwent a fundamental transition from a liberal economy to a developmental state system during World War II, and despite efforts by the American occupation forces to dismantle them after 1945, these elements of the wartime economic system remained in place. Through an historical institutionalist lens, this book examines the reasons why the key features of the Japanese developmental state, such as pilot agencies and industrial associations, continued to play key roles in the post-war Japanese economy. Further, it locates the fundamental roots of the developmental...
The Japanese economy underwent a fundamental transition from a liberal economy to a developmental state system during World War II, and despite eff...
Although colonies are often viewed as having been of crucial economic importance to Britain's empire, those responsible for administering the colonies were often not at all interested in or supportive of commercial ventures, as this book demonstrates. Based on extensive original research, and including detailed case studies of the agricultural and mining sectors in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Malaya, the book examines how administrators and capitalists interacted, showing how administrators were often hostile to business and created barriers to business success. It discusses...
Although colonies are often viewed as having been of crucial economic importance to Britain's empire, those responsible for administering the colonies...
Throughout the centuries, as Russia strove to build itself into an imperial power equal to those in the West, China and Japan came to occupy a special place in Russians' view of the orient. Never colonised by Russia or the West, China and Japan were linked not only to the greatest of Russian imperial fantasies, but also, conversely, to a deep sense of insecurity regarding Russia's place in the world, a sense of insecurity which deepened as China and Japan began to modernise in the later nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of works by Russian writers and thinkers, Lim sets out how...
Throughout the centuries, as Russia strove to build itself into an imperial power equal to those in the West, China and Japan came to occupy a spec...
For the business and government relationship in Japan, the pre-war period was an era of considerable change. This text explores how their relationship worked during the period 1916-1934.
For the business and government relationship in Japan, the pre-war period was an era of considerable change. This text explores how their relationship...
