Chineseness and the Cold War : Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong Hardback
Edited by Jeremy E. (University of Sheffield, UK) Taylor, Lanjun Xu
Part of the Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia series
Hardback
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This book explores contested notions of "Chineseness" in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong during the Cold War, showing how competing ideas about "Chineseness" were an important ideological factor at play in the region.
After providing an overview of the scholarship on "Chineseness" and "diaspora", the book sheds light on specific case studies, through the lens of the "Chinese cultural Cold War", from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.
It provides detailed examples of competition for control of definitions of "Chineseness" by political or politically oriented forces of diverse kinds, and shows how such competition was played out in bookstores, cinemas, music halls, classrooms, and even sports clubs and places of worship across the region in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
The book also demonstrates how the legacies of these Cold War contestations continue to influence debates about Chinese influence – and "Chineseness" – in Southeast Asia and the wider region today. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:206 pages, 13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/09/2021
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- ISBN:9781032078892
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:206 pages, 13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/09/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032078892
