TY - BOOK AU - Kung,Chien-Wen TI - Diasporic cold warriors: nationalist China, anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s T2 - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University SN - 9781501762239 AV - DS666 .D537 2022 PY - 2022/// CY - Ithaca [New York] PB - Cornell University Press KW - Zhongguo guo min dang KW - Chinese KW - Political activity KW - Philippines KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Anti-communist movements KW - Taiwan KW - China KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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"- UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3036682&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -