Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Alliance
The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Alliance, the first between a European country and an Asiatic power against a Western rival, was signed on 30 January 1902.
Asia
Local Heroes
Margaret Mehl explains the surprising adoption of two Japanese scholars by their hometowns as major tourist attractions.
Robert Clive Takes Arcot
August 31st, 1751
Collaborators and Renegades in Occupied Shanghai
1930s Shanghai was notoriously populated by characters of dubious political and moral allegiances. Bernard Wasserstein shows how the Japanese used their contacts among the city’s low-life to assist in their invasion and occupation.
The Return to Confucius?
Robert Bruce asks if China has refound Confucius.
Jungle Book Memories
Paul Murphy on the Raj pioneers who set in train thoughts of conservation in independent India.
Shanghai's Deco Shangri-La
Michael Leech on Eastern Art Deco
Taiwan Confronts Its Past
Michael Rand Hoare probes the truth behind a little-known massacre which is reverberating in Taiwanese politics today.
New Rice for Old?
Annette Bingham on the historic nature of Philippines food.
William and Mary and the World of Maritime Asia
Charles Boxer examines the impact of 1688 on Anglo-Dutch relationship with nations east of Suez.