Migration in the Time of Revolution : China, Indonesia, and the Cold War / Taomo Zhou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhou, Taomo, Author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Indonesia--Politics and government.

Chinese.

Cold War.

China--Foreign relations--Indonesia.

China.

Indonesia--Foreign relations--China.

Indonesia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Migration in the Time of Revolution examines how two of the world's most populous countries interacted between 1945 and 1967, when the concept of citizenship was contested, political loyalty was in question, identity was fluid, and the boundaries of political mobilization were blurred. Taomo Zhou asks probing questions of this important period in the histories of the People's Republic of China and Indonesia. What was it like to be a youth in search of an ancestral homeland that one had never set foot in, or an economic refugee whose expertise in private business became undesirable in one's new home in the socialist state? What ideological beliefs or practical calculations motivated individuals to commit to one particular nationality while forsaking another?As Zhou demonstrates, the answers to such questions about "ordinary" migrants are crucial to a deeper understanding of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Through newly declassified documents from the Chinese Foreign Ministry Archives and oral history interviews, Migration in the Time of Revolution argues that migration and the political activism of the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia were important historical forces in the making of governmental relations between Beijing and Jakarta after World War II. Zhou highlights the agency and autonomy of individuals whose life experiences were shaped by but also helped shape the trajectory of bilateral diplomacy. These ethnic Chinese migrants and settlers were, Zhou contends, not passively acted upon but actively responding to the developing events of the Cold War. This book bridges the fields of diplomatic history and migration studies by reconstructing the Cold War in Asia as social processes from the ground up.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

A Note on Language

Introduction: Revolutionary Diplomacy and Diasporic Politics

1. The Chinese Nationalist Party and the Overseas Chinese

2. The Chinese Communist Party and the Overseas Chinese

3. The Diplomatic Battle between the Two Chinas

4. The Communal Battle between the Red and the Blue

5. Pribumi Perceptions of the "Chinese Problem"

6. The 1959-1960 Anti-Chinese Crisis

7. The Ambivalent Alliance between Beijing and Jakarta

8. China and the September Thirtieth Movement

9. Beijing, Taipei, and the Emerging Suharto Regime

10. The Overseas Chinese "Returning" to the People's Republic

Conclusion: "The Motherland Is a Distant Dream"

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9781501781445

1501781448

9781501739941

1501739948

OCLC:

1096232544