Cold War in Asia

The Battle for Hearts and Minds

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

The Cold War stayed cold in Europe but it was hot in Asia. Its legacy lives on in the region. In none of the three dominant historiographical paradigms: orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist, does Asia, or the rest of the Third World, figure with much significance. What happens to these narratives if we put them to the test in Asia? This volume argues that attention to what has been conventionally considered the periphery is essential to a full understanding of the global Cold War. Foregrounding Asia necessarily leads to a re-assessment of the dominant narratives. This volume also argues for a shift in focus from diplomacy and high politics alone towards research into the culture of the Cold War era and its public diplomacy. "As a whole, the essays contribute to enriching our understanding of what was really happening in an era that is too often understood in the catch-all framework of the Cold War." - Akira Iriye, Harvard University

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-02-16
Mått:155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:587 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004175372

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Zheng Yangwen, Ph.D (2001) in History, University of Cambridge, teaches Chinese history at the University of Manchester. She is the author of The Social Life of Opium in China (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Hong Liu is Professor of East Asian Studies and the founding director of the Centre for Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester. His most recent publication is China and the Shaping of Indonesia, 1949-1965 (National University of Singapore Press, forthcoming).Michael Szonyi is Professor of Chinese history in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His most recent book is Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line (Cambridge, 2008).

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“This volume represents a significant and timely contribution to the growing fields of international history and of ‘new’ Cold War Studies.” Matthew Johnson, Grinnell College

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionNew Approaches to the Study of the Cold War in Asia – Michael Szonyi and Hong LiuPart I: World System and Asian OrderChapter 1 What Cold War in Asia? An Interpretative Essay- Immanuel WallersteinChapter 2 Only Yesterday: China, Japan and the Transformation of East Asia– Takashi Shiraishi and Caroline Sy HauPart II: The Propaganda WarfareChapter 3 U Nu, China and the “Burmese” Cold War: Propaganda in Burma in the 1950s– Michael CharneyChapter 4 Communism, Containment and the Chinese Overseas– Meredith OyenChapter 5 Limits to Propaganda: Hong Kong’s Leftist Media in the Cold War and Beyond– Lu Yan Chapter 6 Women’s Liberation in China during the Cold War – Zheng YangwenChapter 7 The Historicity of China’s Soft Power: The PRC and the Cultural Politics of Indonesia, 1945-1965– Hong Liu Part III: The Export and Globalisation of MaoismChapter 8 Transpacific Solidarities: A Mexican Case Study on the Diffusion of Maoism in Latin America– Matthew Rothwell Chapter 9 Mao and the Swedish United Front against the USA– Perry Johansson