Diasporic Cold Warriors : : Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970s / / Chien-Wen Kung.

In Diasporic Cold Warriors, Chien-Wen Kung explains how the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT) sowed the seeds of anticommunism among the Philippine Chinese with the active participation of the Philippine state.From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia's...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Physical Description:1 online resource (318 p.) :; 11 b&w halftones, 3 maps, 1 chart
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Translation and Romanization
  • Map 1. Southern Fujian and Taiwan
  • Map 2. The Philippines
  • Map 3. Manila
  • Introduction. The Philippine Chinese as Cold Warriors
  • Chapter 1 The KMT, Chinese Society, and Chinese Communism in the Philippines before 1942
  • Chapter 2 A “Period of Bloody Struggle” The Rise of the Philippine KMT, 1945–1948
  • Chapter 3 Practicing Anticommunism: Chinese Self-Fashioning in the Cold War Philippines
  • Chapter 4 Anticommunism in Question “Communists” and ROC-Philippine Relations in the 1950s
  • Chapter 5 Networking Ideology: Chinese Society and Transnational Anticommunism, 1954–1960
  • Chapter 6 Experiencing the Nation: Philippine-Chinese Visits to “Free China”
  • Chapter 7 Dissent and Its Discontents: The Chinese Commercial News Affair
  • Conclusion: Rethinking “China,” the Overseas Chinese, and the Cold War
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Selected Chinese Names
  • Bibliography
  • Index