The Cold War in Asia

by Yangwen, Zheng; Liu, Hong; Szonyi, Michael

• ISBN13: 9789004175372
• ISBN10: 9004175377
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This volume argues that attention to what were conventionally considered peripheral regions is essential to a full understanding of the global Cold War. Foregrounding Asia necessarily leads to a re-assessment of the dominant narratives that have defined Cold War Studies.

Author Biography

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 University Press, 2008).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgement	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: New Approaches to the Study of the Cold War in Asia	p. 1
World System and Asian Order
What Cold War in Asia? An Interpretative Essay	p. 15
Only Yesterday: China, Japan and the Transformation of East Asia	p. 25
The Propaganda War
U Nu, China and the ôBurmeseö Cold War: Propaganda in Burma in the 1950s	p. 41
Communism, Containment and the Chinese Overseas	p. 59
Limits to Propaganda: Hong Kong's Leftist Media in the Cold War and Beyond	p. 95
Women's Liberation in China during the Cold War	p. 119
The Historicity of China's Soft Power: The PRC and the Cultural Politics of Indonesia, 1945-1965	p. 147
The Export and Globalisation Of Maoism
Transpacific Solidarities: A Mexican Case Study on the Diffusion of Maoism in Latin America	p. 185
Mao and the Swedish United Front against USA	p. 217
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 259
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