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1 online resource |
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1 Interpreting the Cold War and the New Cold War in Asia; Cold-War Histories; Cold-War Ideological Struggle; Show LevelCold-War Narratives; Cold-War Lived Experience -- l2 Curating Memory: Cold-War Narratives in Museums and Memorials in Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, and Cambodia; Kinmen, Taiwan: The Island as an Open-Air Museum (December 2015); Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Amusement Grounds and Propaganda (January 2016); Seoul, South Korea: A Monument to Gratitude? (April 2016); Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Narrating Victimhood, Complicity, and Guilt (July–August 2016); New York, United States of America (Winter 2019–Summer 2022) -- l3 Ecology as a Cold-War Scale: Lau Kek Huat’s Absent Without Leave and Ha Jin’s War Trash; Bodies and the Jungle in Absent Without Leave; Bodies and Territoriality in War Trash -- 4 Where Is My Homeland? Mainland Chinese Refugees and Hong Kong Tenement Films During the Cold-War Era; British Hong Kong, Mainland Chinese Refugees, and the Battle for Hearts and Minds; Show LevelPro-communist “Patriotic” Cinema; Show LevelU.S.-Backed Pro-nationalist “Free” Cinema; Coda -- l5 Grand Strategies and Everyday Struggles Under the New Cold War and COVID-19: A Sociological Political Economy; Geopolitics, COVID-19, and the New Cold War; Critical Sociologies and Current Issues in the New Cold War; Show LevelMobilities and Everyday Struggles Under the New Cold War and COVID-19 -- 6 The Cold-War Structure of Feeling: Revisiting the Discourse of “Dalumei” (Mainland Little Sister) in Taiwan; The Cold-War Structure of Mainland-Taiwan Relations: “Liberating Taiwan” and “Reconquering the Mainland”; The Entanglement of the Cold War and the Sex Wars; Show LevelDalumei in Popular Discourse: Mistresses and Sex Workers; Show LevelThe Politics of Redistribution: Sisterhood at the Tea Table; Conclusion: From Feminist Impasse to Sisterhood at the Tea Table -- l7 China’s Health Diplomacy in the “New-Cold-War” Era: Contrasting the Battle of Narratives in Europe and the Middle East and North Africa; Theoretical and Conceptual Framework: Role Theory and Trust in Foreign Policy Analysis; Show LevelChina–M.E.N.A. Relations; Mena States’ Reactions to China’s Health Diplomacy; China–Europe Relations; Show LevelEurope’s Reactions Towards China’s Health Diplomacy and Management of Covid-19 -- 8 Hungary and the New-Cold-War Narrative on China; Hungary and the East vs. West Dichotomy; Another Dichotomy: Rural vs. Urban; Hungarian Attitudes Towards China; The Fudan Hungary Plan; The Discourse Around Fudan Hungary; Lessons Learnt... and Questions to Ask -- 9 Haunted History: Exorcising the Cold War; Trauma and Ritual; Home and Away; Marginalized Migrant Populations; China’s Rise; Exorcizing the Cold War |
| Summary |
This collection of essays marks the 30th anniversary of the historic Cold Wars formal conclusion in 1991. It enriches Cold War studiesa field dominated by Political Science, International Relations, and Historywith insights from Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Film and Media Studies. Through critical analysis of films, television shows, novels, newspaper and magazine articles, tourist souvenir shops, art exhibits, museums, and other commemorative sites that engage with the themes of conflict, violence, trauma, displacement, marginalization, ecology, and identity, the book provides rich and diverse perspectives on the complex relationship between the historic Cold War and its legacies on the one hand and, on the other, their impact on Asia, its plural histories and peoples, and their shifting ideological beliefs, narratives of identity, and lived experiences. Today, we often speak of an "Asian century" and witness intensifying concerns over a "New Cold War". A United States in decline and a China on the rise create conditions for a new superpower rivalry, with a trade and tech war already being fought between the two competitors. As grand narratives and strategies of the Cold War jostle to make sense of high-level geopolitical events, this book descends to the level of lived experience, zooming in on ordinary and marginalized peoples, whose lives and livelihoods have been affected over the decades by the Cold War and its legacies. Kenneth Paul Tan is a tenured Professor of Politics, Film, and Cultural Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), which hired him under its Talent100 initiative. His recent books include Movies to Save Our World: Imagining Poverty, Inequality and Environmental Destruction in the 21st Century (Penguin, 2022), Singapore's First Year of COVID-19: Public Health, Immigration, the Neoliberal State, and Authoritarian Populism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Singapore: Identity, Brand, Power (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and Governing Global-City Singapore: Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew (Routledge, 2017) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 20, 2023) |
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Cold War.
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Geopolitics -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
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Diplomatic relations
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Geopolitics
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Asia -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
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Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Tan, Kenneth Paul, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789811976810 |
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9811976813 |
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