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Author: Tran My-Van
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 113443278X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the life of Cuong De, pretender to the Vietnamese throne and provides many fascinating insights on a wide range of historical developments in Asia from the perspective of an interesting and undeservedly neglected figure.
Author: Tran My-Van
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1134432771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrince Cuong De, viewed by the French as a pretender to the Vietnamese throne, was an important and interesting figure in the history of Vietnam’s struggle for independence. He was highly regarded by many non-communist Vietnamese nationalists, but has been virtually ‘written out’ of Vietnamese history. Based on extensive original research, including interviews and important documents from the French national archives, this book traces the life of Cuong De as a royal exile in Japan, exploring his links to key Japanese leaders and how he campaigned for his cause and was supported in Japan, Vietnam and elsewhere. The author shows how Cuong De had great hopes that imperial Japan would advance the cause of Vietnamese independence from France, especially during the Japanese occupation of Vietnam in 1941-5. But these hopes were disappointed as Japan's Indochina policy gave primacy to Japan's own economic and strategic self-interest. This book provides many fascinating insights into the development of Vietnamese nationalism and the long, harsh struggle for independence, from the perspective of an interesting and undeservedly neglected figure.
Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1317476417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Pacific War the Japanese government used a wide range of methods to recruit workers for construction projects throughout the occupied territories. Mistreatment of workers was a major grievance, both in widely publicized cases such as the use of prisoners of war and forced Asian labor to construct the Thailand-Burma "Death" Railway, and in a very large number of smaller projects. In this book an international group of specialists on the Occupation period examine the labor needs and the recruitment and use of workers (whether forced, military, or otherwise) throughout the Japanese empire. This is the first study to look at Japanese labor policies comparatively across all the occupied territories of Asia during the war years. It also provides a graphic context for examining Japanese colonialism and relations between the Japanese and the people living in the various occupied territories.
Author: Heather Streets-Salter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-13
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1107135192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original study of the First World War's impact in Southeast Asia, extending our understanding of the conflict as a global phenomenon.
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Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9789971693336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Aldrich
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-12-27
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1526113430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this volume examines the deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs by the British and French – with examples in India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco – from the early nineteenth century down to the eve of decolonisation. It argues that removal of native sovereigns, and sometimes abolition of dynasties, provided a powerful strategy used by colonisers, though European overlords were seldom capable of quelling resistance in the conquered countries, or of effacing the memory of local monarchies and the legacies they left behind.
Author: David Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-16
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 1317918568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe transcripts of the three Kyoto School roundtable discussions of the theme of ‘the standpoint of world history and Japan’ may now be judged to form the key source text of responsible Pacific War revisionism. Published in the pages of Chuo Koron, the influential magazine of enlightened elite Japanese opinion during the twelve months after Pearl Harbor, these subversive discussions involved four of the finest minds of the second generation of the Kyoto School of philosophy. Tainted by controversy and shrouded in conspiratorial mystery, these transcripts were never republished in Japan after the war, and they have never been translated into English except in selective and often highly biased form. David Williams has now produced the first objective, balanced and close interpretative reading of these three discussions in their entirety since 1943. This version of the wartime Kyoto School transcripts is neither a translation nor a paraphrase but a fuller rendering in reader-friendly English that is convincingly faithful to the spirit of the original texts. The result is a masterpiece of interpretation and inter-cultural understanding between the Confucian East and the liberal West. Seventy years after Tojo came to power, these documents of the Japanese resistance to his wartime government and policies exercise a unique claim on students of Japanese history and thought today because of their unrivalled revelatory potential within the vast literature on the Pacific War. The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance may therefore stand as the most trenchant analysis of the political, philosophic and legal foundations of the place of the Pacific War in modern Japanese history yet to appear in any language.
Author: Christopher Hartney
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-11-28
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9004697934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1948, Vietnam's great 20th Century mystic Phạm Công Tắc (1890-1959) began a series of sermons making Caodaism's claims to universal salvation the clearest. In only two decades, Caodaism had stamped its fast-growing presence on the nation. With potent creative and poetic skill Phạm Công Tắc invited his co-religionists to take a shamanic journey with him to examine the heavens and literally see how they would be saved. The 35 sermons translated here are provided with a commentary and extensive introduction by Hartney. How Heaven Works is a fascinating insight into the deep connection between shamanic atmosphere, literature, and Modern syncretic concepts of salvation.
Author: Peter von Staden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-08-07
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1134150474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a much needed exploration on the relationship between government and business in pre-war Japan, making an important contribution to the literature by considering periods which have often been neglected by scholars.
Author: Hironori Sasada
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0415503469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough 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 state system in wartime Manchuria and thus highlights how decisions made in the context of war continued to influence the direction of the Japanese economy over the following decades.
