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• Part I: The Asia Pacific War
• Introduction: Is there, or was there, a so-called 'Just War'?
• The Origins of the Asia Pacific War: 'Honor, Fear, Self-interest'
• The Human Impact of the Asia Pacific War
• The Legacies of the Asia Pacific War
• the Atomic Bombings and Article 9
• Part II : Postwar Reconciliation Introduction: Aspects of Reconciliation
• Reparations, Memorials and Reconciliation at State Level
• Citizens' Reconciliation
• Postwar Reconciliation Through the Arts.

"This book examines key aspects of the Asia Pacific War (1931-1945), that was initially waged between Japan and China, before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor drew in the U.S.-led allied forces from 1941 to 1945. The first half of the book examines three interlocking components, the origins of the war; its impact on combatants and civilians; and its short-term legacy, including the huge changes that took place in the postwar governance of Japan. Part 2 explores the ongoing impact and legacy of the war for those in postwar Japan, and later generations, particularly through the examination of the ambiguity of state-led reconciliation with Japan's neighbors, the growth of dynamic civil reconciliation efforts, and the prominent role of the arts in peace movements. Through a people-centered approach it filters historical events through the lens of the war's impact on individuals, who found themselves players within a larger frame of the social history of Japan and caught up in the international power dynamics of the nuclear age. Featuring studies of contemporary peace activism, this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Modern Asian and U.S. History, as well as those interested in post-war memory and reconciliation"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book is a political and cultural history of the early postwar Japan aiming at exploring how the perception and cultural values of everyday life in the country changed along with the rise of the kasutori culture. Such a process was closely tied with both a refusal of the samurai culture and the interwar debate on modernity, and it resulted in a decadent way of life, exemplified by intellectuals such as Sakaguchi Ango. It depicts a short-lived radical cultural and social alternative, one that forced people to rethink their relationship to the kokutai, modernity, social roles, daily practices, and the production of knowledge. The subjectivity and daily practices in those years were more important in shaping the society and cultural identities of the Japanese than the new public ideology of the nation. This challenges some Euro-American historical notions that the new private sphere has emerged in Japan as an effect of the country's Americanization, rather than from within it. This work looks at the immediate aftermath of WWII from the perspective of Japan, but also try to rethink Westernization in the light of its global appropriation. This volume it is not only addressed to specialists of Japanese or Asian history, but it will also attract historians of the U.S., readers from political and intellectual history, cultural studies, and historiography in general"-- Provided by publisher.

• A study of eighteenth-century Persian diplomatics
• Royal decrees from the Āstān-i Quds-i Rażawīof Mashhad.

• Introduction. Hong Kong as a site of Britishness
• British by law
• The Britishers
• Britishness and Chineseness in an age of nationalism
• The British Portuguese
• Multiracial civic Britishness
• The test of war
• Epilogue : after empire, after Brexit.

"Multiracial Britishness explores how British subjects of different 'races' collectively shaped what it means to be British today, focusing on 1910-45 Hong Kong. This book reframes the discussion about British identities and colonial Hong Kong, with clear implications for understanding Hong Kong's decolonisation, Brexit, and the Commonwealth"-- Provided by publisher.

• Why Malayan?
• The Origins of Malayan Nationalism
• Mass Movements and Education, 1953-55
• Political Parties, 1954-55
• Associationalism, 1955-56
• Transitional Politics, 1955-57
• Electoral Politics, 1957-61
• The Meaning of Self-Determination, 1961-63
• Legacies.

• Systems come and go
• A portrait of Khovd-sum
• Changing regimes of production and exchange
• Making ends meet
• Using space and mobility
• Social webs and hierarchies
• Flexibility and adaptation in pastoral decision-making.

"Taking the case of Qazaq Pastoralists in Western Mongolia, this book looks at the universal human requirement to balance individual flexibility and strategies designed to make a living with the social expectations that impose particular rules of conduct but also enable mutual trust and cooperation to emerge. Pastoralists in Western Mongolia have experienced dramatic changes in recent decades, including the dismantling of the socialist economy, a series of natural disasters, and an emigration of roughly half of the local Qazaq minority to the newly independent state of Qazaqstan. Four aspects illustrate the chances and challenges that people face. First is the emergence of the market as the dominant mode of production and exchange, a thorny way full of uncertainties. Second is the individual household and its adaptation to the new economic system, creating new opportunities as well as precarities, and resulting in rapid social stratification. Thirdly, patterns of pastoral land allocation highlight problems of collective action and institutional fragmentation in the wake of a retreating state apparatus. Finally, social networks of mutual support and cooperation constitute a key component of pastoral livelihood but are under great pressure due to short time horizons and a lack of trust. The first longitudinal analysis of the Qazaqs in Mongolia in English and a contribution to anthropological theories on human adaptability and decision-making, economic and social inequalities, institutional change and the difficulty of deriving at cooperative solutions, this book will be a standard work and of interest to academics in the field of Central Asian Studies, Anthropology, Human Geography and Development Studies"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : the arrival of the age of nationalism and nation states / Lu Zhouxiang
• Applying classic and contemporary nationalism theories to East and Southeast Asia today / Tina Burrett
• Decolonialising Southeast Asian nationalism / Claire Sutherland
• An alternative origin of nationalism in the East : the emergence of political subjectivity under the non-western centric world order / Atsuko Ichijo
• The clash of empires, the rise of nationalism, and the vicissitude of Pan-Asianism in East Asia and Southeast Asia / Yongle Zhang
• Postcolonialism, nationalism and internationalism in East and Southeast Asia / Peter Herrmann
• Traditional colonialism, modern hegemonism, and the construction of Asian nations / Feilong Tian
• Chinese nationalism in late Qing times : how to (not) change a multi-ethnic empire into a homogenous nation-state / Julia Schneider
• Nationalism in China, towards a non-western centric history of ideas / Zhiguang Yin
• Nationalism, national salvation and the development of female hygiene in the Republic of China era / Meishan Zhang
• Between a rock and a hard place : the changing Taiwanese identity and rising Chinese nationalism / Yitan Li
• China's digital nationalism / Florian Schneider
• The dream of a strong country : nationalism and China's Olympic journey / Lu Zhouxiang
• Conflict in Xinjiang : nationalism, identity, and violence / Arabinda Acharya and Rohan Gunaratna
• 'Dear Asian friends, we want to build peace' : right-wing nationalism, Internationalism, and Honda Koei's teaching about the Asia-Pacific War, 1965-1973 / Yoshiko Nozaki
• Nationalism, history and collective narcissism : historical revisionism in twenty-first century Japan / Sven Saaler
• Abe's feckless nationalism / Jeff Kingston
• Commercial nationalism and cosmopolitanism : advertising production and consumption of (trans) national identity in Japan / Koji Kobayashi
• Nation, nationalism and identity discourses in North Korean popular culture / Udo Merkel
• Taekwondo : a symbol of South Korean nationalism / Udo Moenig
• South Korea : the transition to globalist nationalism / Charles R. Kim
• The emergence of calculated nationalism in South Korea in the twenty-first century / Gil-Soo Han and David Hundt
• The birth and transformation of Japanese-Korean nationalism / Masaki Tosa
• Nationalism, colonialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia : the rise of emancipatory nationalism / Stefan Eklöf Amirell
• Comparative nation building in the borderlands between China, Myanmar, and Thailand / Enze Han
• Nationalism, ethnicity, and regional conflicts in twenty-first century Southeast Asia / Arabinda Acharya
• The making of Hoa identity : migrants, nationalism and nation-building in post-colonial Vietnam / Zhifang Song
• Writing nationalism in post-reform Vietnam : portrayals of national enemies in contemporary Vietnamese fictions / Chi P. Pham
• Populist nationalism in Philippine historiography / Rommel A. Curaming
• Buddhist nationalism in Burma/Myanmar : collective victimhood and ressentiment / Niklas Foxeus
• Nationalism in colonial and post-colonial Myanmar : solidarities, discordance, and the crisis of community / Maitrii Aung-Thwin
• Competing nationalisms : shifting conceptions of nation in the construction of Indonesia in the twentieth century / Joshua Kueh
• Cambodian nationalism : from ideology to alternative political resource / Kimly Ngoun
• Xāt Lao : imaging the Lao nation through race, history and language / Ryan Wolfson-Ford
• Different streams of Malay nationalism from the late colonial to contemporary Eras / Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid and Azmi Arifin
• Singapore's national narrative : ripe for renewal / Michael D. Barr
• Exclusion and inclusion : Melayu Islam Beraja and the construction of Bruneian nationalism and national identity / Asiyah Kumpoh and Nani Suryani Abu Bakar
• Nationalism in transition : construction and transformation of Rai Timor / Takahiro Kamisuna
• The routinization of charisma in Thai nation construction : a Weberian reading of Thai royalism, nationalism, and democracy / Jack Fong.

"This handbook presents a comprehensive survey of the formation and transformation of nationalism in fifteen East and Southeast Asian countries. Written by a team of international scholars from different backgrounds and disciplines, this volume offers new perspectives on studying Asian history, society, culture, and politics, and provides readers with a unique lens through which to better contextualise and understand the relationships between countries within East and Southeast Asia, and between Asia and the world. It highlights the latest developments in the field and contributes to our knowledge and understanding of nationalism and nation building. Comprehensive and clearly written, this book examines a diverse set of topics that include theoretical considerations on nationalism and internationalism; the formation of nationalism and national identity in the colonial and postcolonial eras; the relationships between traditional culture, religion, ethnicity, education, gender, technology, sport, and nationalism; the influence of popular culture on nationalism; and politics, policy, and national identity. It illustrates how nationalism helped to draw the borders between the nations of East and Southeast Asia, and how it is re-emerging in the twenty-first century to shape the region and the world into the future. The Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia is essential reading for those interested in and studying Asian history, Social and Cultural history and modern history"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foreword/Acknowledgment
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction: Retrogressions under Xi Jinping in light of the institutional reforms of his liberal forebears
• The rise of Xi Jinping, his work style, and members of the Xi Faction
• Xi's ideological agenda: to push forward Xi Jinping thought on Socialism with Chinese characteristics for a New Era
• Xi Jinping's surveillance-state apparatus and its impact on society
• Xi's economic agenda: boosting party control over business while avoiding decoupling from the global marketplace
• Xi's foreign policy agenda: China to become rule-setter of the world
• Conclusion: The 20th Party Congress and beyond: Xi Jinping becomes "leader for life" but China faces unprecedented challenges.

"This book examines the policy, ideology and politics of Xi Jinping, State President and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and China's 'Ruler for life'. Through comparisons with former CCP leaders, including Deng Xiaoping, it assesses whether, having abandoned many of the key precepts of the Era of Reform and the Open Door, the conservative supreme leader's restitution of Maoist standards might enable China to sustain economic growth and project hard and soft power worldwide. The book also examines whether the Communist Party will succeed in retaining the support of 1.4 billion Chinese in the face of unprecedented challenges in the economic and geopolitical arenas. It also provides a comprehensive picture of Xi's rise to power; his AI-assisted and "legalistic" surveillance and control mechanisms; China's evolving economic system; Xi's foreign and national-security policies; and the implications of the 20th Party Congress of October 2022 from both domestic and foreign perspectives. Being amongst the first books in English on the ambitious and multi-faceted agendas that Xi has laid out taking China up to the early 2040s, this will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Chinese studies, China-U.S. relations, East Asian politics and Contemporary Asian history"-- Provided by publisher.

"What does it take for ordinary citizens to risk everything to protest living under a repressive government? What takes them beyond the brink, to the "boiling point"? In his graphic novel 100°C, celebrated webtoon and comics artist Choi Kyu-sok sheds a light on these questions by examining the lives of one family caught up in the great social unrest that developed under Chun Doo-hwan's regime and culminated in the June 1987 Uprising. Crucial to understanding the events of the summer of 1987 is the recognition of both the political context and the dynamics of the nationwide effort that included students, office workers, and religious and labor groups-all of whom came together to demand a new constitution and free elections. Choi's is a measured yet powerful representation of a pivotal moment in Korean history, when individuals questioned the status quo, when parents joined their children to express their grievances and agitate for democratic reforms, when an entire nation chose to move in a new direction"-- Provided by publisher.

18 personal narratives selected and edited from material recorded during an oral history project conducted by the author between 2002-2012