BOOK LAUNCH - Diasporic Cold Warriors

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How the Chinese Nationalist Party sowed seeds of anticommunism among Philippine Chinese with the active participation of the Philippines.

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<h1>BOOK LAUNCH</h1><h2>Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s</h2>Programme6:00pm	Registration and Refreshments6:25pm Welcome Remarks by FASS Assistant Dean of Research, Associate Professor Elmie Nekmat6:30pm	Opening Remarks by Chair, Assistant Professor Wen-Qing Ngoei6:35pm	Presentation by Author, Assistant Professor Chien-Wen Kung7:05pm	Q &amp; A Session, Chaired by Assistant Professor Wen-Qing Ngoei7:35pm	RefreshmentsAbout the AuthorChien-Wen Kung is Assistant Professor in the NUS Department of History. Born and raised in Singapore, he was a History and English major at Dartmouth College and taught A-Level History in Singapore before pursuing his Ph.D in Modern Chinese and International and Global History at Columbia University. His research straddles the fields of Sinophone history, Chinese migration and diaspora, the Cold War, and modern China in the world. He was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian History at the University of the Pacific from 2018 to 2019 and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the NUS Department of History from 2019 to 2021.About the ChairWen-Qing Ngoei is Assistant Professor of Humanities in the College of Integrative Studies at the Singapore Management University. He graduated with a Ph.D in History from Northwestern University, specializing in US foreign relations with Southeast Asia in the twentieth century. Before joining SMU, he completed postdoctoral stints at Northwestern and Yale University, and was Assistant Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University from 2016 through 2019. His first book, Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2019) traces how British neocolonial strategies intertwined with Southeast Asian anti-communist nationalism to usher the region from formal colonialism to US hegemony.About the BookIn Diasporic Cold Warriors (Cornell University Press, 2022), 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.For the first time, Kung tells the story of the Philippine Chinese as pro-Taiwan, anticommunist partisans, tracing their evolving relationship with the KMT and successive Philippine governments over the mid-twentieth century. Throughout, he argues for a networked and transnational understanding of the ROC-KMT party-state and demonstrates that Taipei exercised a form of nonterritorial sovereignty over the Philippine Chinese with Manila's participation and consent. Challenging depoliticized narratives of cultural integration, he also contends that, because of the KMT, Chinese identity formation and practices of belonging in the Philippines were deeply infused with Cold War ideology.Drawing on archival research and fieldwork in Taiwan, the Philippines, the United States, and China, Diasporic Cold Warriors reimagines the histories of the ROC, the KMT, and the Philippine Chinese, connecting them to the broader canvas of the Cold War and postcolonial nation-building in East and Southeast Asia.Diasporic Cold Warriors is available for purchase here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501762215/diasporic-cold-warriors/#bookTabs=1

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