Diasporic cold warriors : nationalist China, anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s / Chien-Wen Kung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kung, Chien-Wen, 1981- author.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zhongguo guo min dang.

Chinese--Political activity--Philippines--History--20th century.

Chinese.

Anti-communist movements--Philippines--History--20th century.

Anti-communist movements.

Anti-communist movements--Taiwan--History--20th century.

Anti-communist movements--China--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages, 5 unnumbered pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits, charts

Place of Publication:

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"In Diasporic Cold Warriors, Chien-Wen Kung explains how the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) sowed the seeds of anticommunism among the Philippine Chinese with the active participation of the Philippine state.From the 1950s to the 1970s, Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia's most exemplary Cold Warriors among overseas Chinese. During these decades, no Chinese community in the region was more vigilant in identifying and rooting out suspected communists from within its midst; none was as committed to mobilizing against the People's Republic of China as the one in the former US colony. Ironically, for all the fears of overseas Chinese communities' ties to the PRC at the time, the example of the Philippines shows that the "China" that intervened the most extensively in any Southeast Asian Chinese society during the Cold War was the Republic of China on Taiwan.For the first time, Kung tells the story of the Philippine Chinese as pro-Taiwan, anticommunist partisans, tracing their evolving relationship with the KMT and successive Philippine governments over the mid-twentieth century. Throughout, he argues for a networked and transnational understanding of the ROC-KMT party-state and demonstrates that Taipei exercised a form of nonterritorial sovereignty over the Philippine Chinese with Manila's participation and consent. Challenging depoliticized narratives of cultural integration, he also contends that, because of the KMT, Chinese identity formation and practices of belonging in the Philippines were deeply infused with Cold War ideology.Drawing on archival research and fieldwork in Taiwan, the Philippines, the United States, and China, Diasporic Cold Warriors reimagines the histories of the ROC, the KMT, and the Philippine Chinese, connecting them to the broader canvas of the Cold War and postcolonial nation-building in East and Southeast Asia."- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The Philippine Chinese as Cold Warriors

The KMT, Chinese Society, and Chinese Communism in the Philippines before 1942

A "Period of Bloody Struggle": The Rise of the Philippine KMT, 1945-1948

Practicing Anticommunism: Chinese Self-Fashioning in the Cold War Philippines

Anticommunism in Question : "Communists" and ROC-Philippine Relations in the 1950s

Networking Ideology: Chinese Society and Transnational Anticommunism, 1954-1960

Experiencing the Nation: Philippine-Chinese Visits to "Free China"

Dissent and Its Discontents: The Chinese Commercial News Affair

Conclusion: Rethinking "China," the Overseas Chinese, and the Cold War.

Notes:

Includes a "Glossary of Selected Chinese Names".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Print version: Kung, Chien-Wen Diasporic cold warriors

ISBN:

9781501762222

1501762222

9781501762239

1501762230

OCLC:

1260166285