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

Kung, Chien-Wen, 1981-

Diasporic cold warriors : nationalist China, anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s / Chien-Wen Kung. - Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2022. - 1 online resource : illustrations, maps. - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University .

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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Zhongguo guo min dang.


Chinese--Political activity--History--Philippines--20th century.
Anti-communist movements--History--Philippines--20th century.
Anti-communist movements--History--Taiwan--20th century.
Anti-communist movements--History--China--20th century.


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