Cold War Asia : a visual history of global diplomacy / edited by Matthew Phillips, Naoko Shimazu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phillips, Matthew (Historian), editor.

Shimazu, Naoko, 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

Asia--Foreign relations--1945-.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This innovative, interdisciplinary and international collection of essays offers fresh perspectives on the history of global diplomacy. Experts in history, international relations, art history and performance art have come together to examine a series of visual sources relating to Asia's role in global diplomacy during the Cold War. They explore how leaders, including Indonesia's Sukarno, the Philippines' Imelda Marcos and Thailand's King Bhumibol, exploited the symbolic value of diplomacy to emphasise their agency in relationships with Great Powers. These case studies demonstrate the significance of Asian diplomacy in understanding the Cold War, shifting away from the use of 'war' as the dominant criterion for analysis of the region. Cold War Asia sheds critical light onto how culture shapes international relations, widening the lens of analysis to embed the role of gender, religion, and ethnicity, as well as the material world, into our understanding of diplomacy.

Contents:

Introduction : visual sources and diplomacy / Matthew Phillips and Naoko Shimazu

Reframing non-alignment : Tito, Sukarno and the 1961 Belgrade Conference / Dejan Djokic

In the image of Imelda : the surrogate diplomacy of the First Lady / Patrick Flores

Meeting of the kings : the dream factory and Cold War diplomacy / Jirayudh Sinthuphan

Conquering the world : King Bhumibol's 1960 visit to Burma on film / Matthew Phillips

Between style and substance : West German President Heinrich Lübke in Indonesia in 1963 / Christian Goeschel

A photograph with two stories : Lisa Larsen and the Bandung Conference of 1955 / Naoko Shimazu

Waxwork wars : exhibiting the Japanese surrender over half a century in Singapore / Paul Rae

Cosmic envoy : interkosmos and the poetics of late socialist spaceflight / Gerard Sasges

A diplomatic image and its afterlife : Bangkok 1967 and ASEAN's creation myth / Deepak Nair

Picturing power : a photographer's view / Tom White.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jan 2025).

ISBN:

9781009379632

1009379631

9781009379656

1009379658

9781009379649

100937964X