title: Introduction: Spatial Histories of Foreign Occupation and Colonialism
abstract: colonial regimes' to be compared, few historians have been willing to step outside the disciplinary (or nation-state-defi ned) boundaries provided by subfi elds such as 'colonial history' . 1 Th is is particularly the case with relation to Asia, where the historiography rarely addresses the continuities and ruptures that have existed across the recently constructed regional boundaries of South, Southeast and east Asia Asia was (and still is) a site of numerous occupation regimes. It is also a re