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

Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Contents 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 Summary "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"- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 24, 2022) Subject Zhongguo guo min dang SUBJECT Zhongguo guo min dang fast Subject Chinese -- Political activity -- Philippines -- History -- 20th century Anti-communist movements -- Philippines -- History -- 20th century Anti-communist movements -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century Anti-communist movements -- China -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia Anti-communist movements Chinese -- Political activity China Philippines Taiwan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021026423 ISBN 9781501762239 1501762230 9781501762222 1501762222

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