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

A History of Timelessness: Constructing Authenticity at the Ise Shrines
by Jordan Sand (Author)Sep 2026

The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region
by Hannah Shepherd (Author)Dec 2025
In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan
by James Lin (Author)Apr 2025
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
In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire
by Eiichiro Azuma (Author)Oct 2019
Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's Savage Border, 1874-1945
by Paul Barclay (Author)Oct 2017
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

Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
by Todd Henry (Author)Feb 2014

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


Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame
by Robert Tierney (Author)May 2010
Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines
by John Blanco (Author)Feb 2009