Asia in the old and new Cold Wars: ideologies, narratives, and lived experiences / edited by Kenneth Paul Tan.
Tan, Kenneth Paul, editor.
2023
D843
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Title
Asia in the old and new Cold Wars: ideologies, narratives, and lived experiences / edited by Kenneth Paul Tan.
ISBN
9789811976810 (electronic bk.)
9811976813 (electronic bk.)
9811976805
9789811976803
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7681-0
Publication Details
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-19-7681-0 doi
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D843
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.5009045
Summary
This collection of essays marks the 30th anniversary of the historic Cold Wars formal conclusion in 1991. It enriches Cold War studiesa field dominated by Political Science, International Relations, and Historywith insights from Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Film and Media Studies. Through critical analysis of films, television shows, novels, newspaper and magazine articles, tourist souvenir shops, art exhibits, museums, and other commemorative sites that engage with the themes of conflict, violence, trauma, displacement, marginalization, ecology, and identity, the book provides rich and diverse perspectives on the complex relationship between the historic Cold War and its legacies on the one hand and, on the other, their impact on Asia, its plural histories and peoples, and their shifting ideological beliefs, narratives of identity, and lived experiences. Today, we often speak of an "Asian century" and witness intensifying concerns over a "New Cold War". A United States in decline and a China on the rise create conditions for a new superpower rivalry, with a trade and tech war already being fought between the two competitors. As grand narratives and strategies of the Cold War jostle to make sense of high-level geopolitical events, this book descends to the level of lived experience, zooming in on ordinary and marginalized peoples, whose lives and livelihoods have been affected over the decades by the Cold War and its legacies. Kenneth Paul Tan is a tenured Professor of Politics, Film, and Cultural Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), which hired him under its Talent100 initiative. His recent books include Movies to Save Our World: Imagining Poverty, Inequality and Environmental Destruction in the 21st Century (Penguin, 2022), Singapore's First Year of COVID-19: Public Health, Immigration, the Neoliberal State, and Authoritarian Populism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Singapore: Identity, Brand, Power (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and Governing Global-City Singapore: Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew (Routledge, 2017).
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Intro
Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Images
List of Tables
1 Interpreting the Cold War and the New Cold War in Asia
Cold-War Histories
Cold-War Conflicts in Asia
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
The Chinese Civil War
The Malayan Emergency
China in the Cold War and the New Cold War
Cold-War Ideological Struggle
Cold-War Narratives
Museums and Monuments
Films and Television Serials
Novels and Non-Fiction Books
News
Cold-War Lived Experience
References

2 Curating Memory: Cold-War Narratives in Museums and Memorials in Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, and Cambodia
Kinmen, Taiwan: The Island as an Open-Air Museum (December 2015)
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Amusement Grounds and Propaganda (January 2016)
Seoul, South Korea: A Monument to Gratitude? (April 2016)
Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Narrating Victimhood, Complicity, and Guilt (July-August 2016)
New York, United States of America (Winter 2019-Summer 2022)
References
3 Ecology as a Cold-War Scale: Lau Kek Huat's Absent Without Leave and Ha Jin's War Trash

Bodies and the Jungle in Absent Without Leave
Bodies and Territoriality in War Trash
Conclusion
References
4 Where Is My Homeland? Mainland Chinese Refugees and Hong Kong Tenement Films During the Cold-War Era
British Hong Kong, Mainland Chinese Refugees, and the Battle for Hearts and Minds
Pro-communist "Patriotic" Cinema
Home, Sweet Home (1950)
The Show Must Go On (1952)
The Dividing Wall (1952)
U.S.-Backed Pro-nationalist "Free" Cinema
Halfway Down (1955)
The Mandarin's Bowls (1956)
Coda
References

5 Grand Strategies and Everyday Struggles Under the New Cold War and COVID-19: A Sociological Political Economy
Geopolitics, COVID-19, and the New Cold War
Critical Sociologies and Current Issues in the New Cold War
Mobilities and Everyday Struggles Under the New Cold War and COVID-19
Mini Case 1: People with HIV Infections in Wuhan, China
Mini Case 2: Service and Factory Workers in Hong Kong
Mini Case 3: Factory Workers in Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry
Conclusion
References

6 The Cold-War Structure of Feeling: Revisiting the Discourse of "Dalumei" (Mainland Little Sister) in Taiwan
The Cold-War Structure of Mainland-Taiwan Relations: "Liberating Taiwan" and "Reconquering the Mainland"
The Entanglement of the Cold War and the Sex Wars
Dalumei in Popular Discourse: Mistresses and Sex Workers
Dalumei Are "Like Pan Jinlian"
Dalumei and "His" American Dream
Dalumei as a Haunting Effect in Taiwan
The Politics of Redistribution: Sisterhood at the Tea Table
Yuanyuan: The Respectable Mainland Hostess
Gold Digging and Gold Redistribution

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