This book focuses on the neglected cultural front of the Cold War in Asia to explore the mindsets of Asian actors and untangle the complex cultural alliances that undergirded the security blocs on this continent.
Inhoudsopgave
Cold War Studies and the Cultural Cold War in Asia; T.Vu Early South Vietnamese Anticommunist Critique; T.Hoang ‘To Be Patriotic Is to Build Socialism’: Communist Ideology in Vietnam’s Civil War; T.Vu Indonesian Architectural Culture during Guided Democracy (1960-1966): Sukarno and the Works of Friedrich Silaban; S.Sopandi Relocating Socialism: Asia, Socialism, and Communism in the PAP departure from the Socialist International in 1976; L.Yew Inventing a Proletarian Fiction for China: The Stalin Prize, Cultural Diplomacy, and the Creation of a Pan-Socialist Identity; N.Volland The Ideological Vanguard Contest: East Asian Communism during the 1960s and 1970s; B.Schaefer The Rhetoric as Politics: The Ramon Magsaysay Award and the Making of a Cold War Culture; R.Curaming Expulsion for a Mistranslated Poem: The Diplomatic Aspects of North Korean Cultural Policies; B.Szalontai From Yaowaraj to Plablachai: The Thai State and Ethnic Chinese during the Cold War Era; W.Wongsurawat
Over de auteur
TUONG VU
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, USA. WASANA WONGSURAWAT is Lecturer in modern Chinese history at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.