The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore During the Cold War.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hon, Tze-ki.

Contributor:

Chan, Ying-kit.

Zhao, Jiaji.

Chiang, Mei-Hsuan.

Jeong, Janice Hyeju.

Li, Anthony H. F.

Series:

Asian Cities Series

Asian Cities ; 21

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Hon Tze-ki : Tze-ki Hon is Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Geneseo. His research interests include the philosophy of the Book of Changes, 20th century Chinese socio-political changes, New Confucianism in contemporary China, and Cold War Hong Kong.Chan Ying-kit : Ying-kit Chan is Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. His books include Southeast Asia in China: Historical Entanglements and Contemporary Engagements (2023), Contesting Chineseness: Ethnicity, Identity, and Nation in China and Southeast Asia (2021), and Alternative Representations of the Past: The Politics of History in Modern China (2020).

Summary:

This volume presents a comparative analysis of three key cities—Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei—during the Cold War. Strategically positioned within international trade networks, these cities also served as critical nodes for both regional conflicts and cooperation. The comparison primarily focuses on their urban landscapes, drawing on the memories embedded in their collective memoryscapes, the imagery presented in their filmscapes, and the perceptions of their inhabitants, as reflected in fiction and films that portrayed urban life and the experiences of ordinary people. The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War explores both the shared characteristics of these cities as frontiers in the bipolar global system (divided between Communism and the Free World) and their distinctive features as unique spaces shaped by their own meanings and opportunities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction : The Cold War through the Lens of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore

Part I Taipei

1. Building a Transnational Anticommunist Network : The Operation and Implications of the USIS Presence in Taipei

2. The Cityscape and Mindscape in Pai Hsien-yung’s Taipei People

3. The Frontier Behind the Curtain : Contextualizing Eileen Chang’s “A Return to the Frontier”

4. The City through the Lens : Cold War Taipei in Bai Jingrui’s Films, 1960–80

5. Islamic Enclaves in Taipei and Transnational Entanglements during the Cold War

Part 2 Hong Kong

6. The Heart of the Berlin of the East : Victoria Park, Queen’s College, and Causeway Bay in Cold War Hong Kong

7. Pro-Communist Mandarin Cinema in Cold War Hong Kong

8. A Model Market Town on the Cold War Frontier : Luen Wo Market in the New Territories, 1947–79

9. The Future Takes Wing : Kai Tak Airport and the Repositioning of Hong Kong, 1958-78

Part 3 Singapore

10. Cityscape and Memoryscape : The Cold War and Monuments of Commemoration in Singapore

11. Reading Multiculturalism on Screen : Cold War Politics and the Shaw Brothers Film Networks in Singapore and Malaya

12. Urban Planning as Cold War Battleground : How Singapore Built Its Nation-State by Defeating the Barisan Sosialis

13. Changi Airport and the Making of Nonaligned Singapore : Neoliberalism and Neutrality during the Cold War

Index

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-078307-4

1-003-70554-5

1-04-078906-4

90-485-5633-3

9781003705543

OCLC:

1515465628