Series
Asia Pacific Modern
This new series seeks to expand our understanding of the making and effects of modernity in the Asia Pacific region.
22 Results
Open Access
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 2025Open 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 2023Open Access
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 D. Barclay (Author)Oct 2017Open 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 2015Open Access
Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
by Todd A. 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
Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan
by Andrew D. Morris (Author)Nov 2010
Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame
by Robert Thomas Tierney (Author)May 2010
Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines
by John D. Blanco (Author)Feb 2009
The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945
by Theodore Jun Yoo (Author)Mar 2008