Wendy Cheng 
Island X [EPUB ebook] 
Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism

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Illuminates a Cold War transpacific drama played out across US campuses
Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact deeply political, shaped by Taiwan’s colonial history and influenced by the global social movements of their times. As activists, they fought to make Taiwanese people visible as subjects of injustice and deserving of self-determination.
Under the distorting shadows of Cold War geopolitics, the Kuomintang regime and collaborators across US campuses attempted to control Taiwanese in the diaspora through extralegal surveillance and violence, including harassment, blacklisting, imprisonment, and even murder. Drawing on interviews with student activists and extensive archival research, Wendy Cheng documents how Taiwanese Americans developed tight-knit social networks as infrastructures for identity formation, consciousness development, and anticolonial activism. They fought for Taiwanese independence, opposed state persecution and oppression, and participated in global political movements. Raising questions about historical memory and Cold War circuits of power, Island X is a testament to the lives and advocacy of a generation of Taiwanese American activists.

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Wendy Cheng is professor of American Studies at Scripps College. She is author of The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California and coauthor and photographer of A People’s Guide to Los Angeles.

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 270 ● ISBN 9780295752044 ● Mărime fișier 28.5 MB ● Editura University of Washington Press ● Oraș Seattle ● Țară US ● Publicat 2023 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 9228545 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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