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Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s

Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s

Kung, Chien-Wen

Hardcover

Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un

General World HistoryImmigration & RefugeesSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1501762214
ISBN13: 9781501762215
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Mar 15 2022
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Diasporic Cold Warriors, Chien-Wen Kung explains how the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) sowed the seeds of anticommunism among the Philippine Chinese with the active participation of the Philippine state.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia's most exemplary Cold Warriors among overseas Chinese. During these decades, no Chinese community in the region was more vigilant in identifying and rooting out suspected communists from within its midst; none was as committed to mobilizing against the People's Republic of China as the one in the former US colony. Ironically, for all the fears of overseas Chinese communities' ties to the PRC at the time, the example of the Philippines shows that the China that intervened the most extensively in any Southeast Asian Chinese society during the Cold War was the Republic of China on Taiwan.

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