Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1032078898 ISBN 13: 9781032078892

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2021

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull'autore

Jeremy E. Taylor is an associate professor in modern Asian history at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Lanjun Xu is an associate professor in Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1032078898
• ISBN 13: 9781032078892
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 218
• Redattore: Taylor Jeremy E., Xu Lanjun
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania