Series

Asia Pacific Modern

This new series seeks to expand our understanding of the making and effects of modernity in the Asia Pacific region.

20 Results

In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan

by James Lin (Author)
Apr 2025
Open Access
The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea

by Park Jeong-Mi (Author)
Aug 2024
North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965

by Andre Schmid (Author)
Jan 2024
Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora

by Jun Uchida (Author)
Feb 2023
Open Access
Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's "Savage Border," 1874-1945

by Paul D. Barclay (Author)
Oct 2017
Open Access
Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952

by Robert Kramm (Author)
Sep 2017
Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan

by Travis Workman (Author)
Nov 2015
Open Access
Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan

by Joseph D. Hankins (Author)
Jul 2014
Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945

by Todd A. Henry (Author)
Oct 2016
In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire

by Eiichiro Azuma (Author)
Oct 2019
Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines

by John D. Blanco (Author)
Feb 2009
Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific

by Shu-mei Shih (Author)
Jun 2007
The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945

by Theodore Jun Yoo (Author)
May 2014
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times

by Miriam Silverberg (Author)
Jun 2009
Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan

by Jonathan Abel (Author)
Sep 2012
Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II

by Takashi Fujitani (Author)
Nov 2011
A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949

by Tong Lam (Author)
Nov 2011
The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past

by Gail Hershatter (Author)
Jan 2014
Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame

by Robert Thomas Tierney (Author)
May 2010
Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan

by Andrew D. Morris (Author)
Nov 2010

Asia Pacific Modern

In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan

The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea

North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965

Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora

Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's "Savage Border," 1874-1945

Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952

Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan

Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan

Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945

In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire

Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines

Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific

The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945

Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times

Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan

Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II

A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949

The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past

Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame

Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan