The Cold War in Asia : The Battle for Hearts and Minds.
Title:
The Cold War in Asia : The Battle for Hearts and Minds.
Author:
Yangwen, Zheng.
ISBN:
9789047428817
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (284 pages)
Contents:
List of Figures -- Acknowledgement -- List of Contributors -- Introduction New Approaches to the Study of the Cold War in Asia (Michael Szonyi and Hong Liu) -- Part One World System and Asian Order -- Chapter One What Cold War in Asia? An Interpretative Essay (Immanuel Wallerstein) -- Chapter Two Only Yesterday: China, Japan and the Transformation of East Asia (Takashi Shiraishi and Caroline Sy Hau) -- Part Two the Propaganda War -- Chapter Three U Nu, China and the "Burmese" Cold War: Propaganda in Burma in the 1950s (Michael Charney) -- Chapter Four Communism, Containment and the Chinese Overseas (Meredith Oyen) -- Chapter Five Limits to Propaganda: Hong Kong's Leftist Media in the Cold War and Beyond (Lu Yan) -- Chapter Six Women's Liberation in China during the Cold War (Zheng Yangwen) -- Chapter Seven The Historicity of China's Soft Power: The PRC and the Cultural Politics of Indonesia, 1945-1965 (Hong Liu) -- Part Three the Export and Globalisation of Maoism -- Chapter Eight Transpacific Solidarities: A Mexican Case Study on the Diffusion of Maoism in Latin America (Matthew Rothwell) -- Chapter Nine Mao and the Swedish United Front against USA (Perry Johansson) -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This volume argues that attention to what were conventionally considered peripheral regions is essential to a full understanding of the global Cold War. Foregrounding Asia necessarily leads to a re-assessment of the dominant narratives that have defined Cold War Studies.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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