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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2022.Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501762239
  • 9781501762222
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS666 .D537 2022
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The KMT, Chinese Society, and Chinese Communism in the Philippines before -- 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.
Subject: "Explains how and why the Philippine Chinese became the most ardent overseas Chinese supporters of the Kuomintang during the Cold War. This book argues for a networked and diasporic understanding of the KMT-ROC party-state. Ties between the Philippine Chinese, the ROC, and the Philippines were constitutive of an intra-Asian anticommunist ecumene: a Cold War waged not by the United States and not only by states but by Asian countries and peoples working with each other"-
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction DS666.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1260166285

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : The Philippine Chinese as Cold Warriors -- The KMT, Chinese Society, and Chinese Communism in the Philippines before -- 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.

"Explains how and why the Philippine Chinese became the most ardent overseas Chinese supporters of the Kuomintang during the Cold War. This book argues for a networked and diasporic understanding of the KMT-ROC party-state. Ties between the Philippine Chinese, the ROC, and the Philippines were constitutive of an intra-Asian anticommunist ecumene: a Cold War waged not by the United States and not only by states but by Asian countries and peoples working with each other"-

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