Cold War Asia : unlearning narratives, making new histories / edited by Masuda Hajimu.
| Other author | Masuda, Hajimu, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2025] |
| Description | 368 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Interconnections: The Global Twentieth Century InterConnections. ^A1482391 |
| Contents | Reconceptualizing the Cold War: on-the-ground experiences in Asia / Masuda Hajimu -- Terror in East Java: the NU versus PKI conflict before and after September 30, 1965 / Imam Muhtarom -- Islam and communism in West Java: the Cold War and sociocultural polarization in Indonesia, 1945-65 / Matthew Woolgar -- Assimilation of ethnic Chinese in Cold War Thailand, 1948-57 / Cui Feng -- Voices of the voiceless: the Cold War and the Hmong in northern Thailand, 1965-82 / Prasit Leepreecha -- Reconsidering the Naxalite movement: local and social experiences of the Cold War in Kerala, India, in the 1960s / Muhammed Kunhi Mahin Udma -- Theorizing Southeast Asia's Cold War: Timor in 1974-75 / Kisho Tsuchiya -- Anti-Vietnamese xenophobia as the vernacular expression of anticommunism in 1950s Laos: rethinking (not removing) our Cold War lens / Simon Creak -- Bodyguards of the US military? The voices of US-educated Okinawans, 1949-72 / Kinuko Maehara-Yamazato -- The voices of young Vietnamese women volunteers during the Vietnam War / Luong Thi Hong -- The Red Guards in Burma, 1960s-80s: an oral history / Bin Yang -- Afterlife of Cold War memories: familial transmission of martial law-era memories in the post-Cold War Philippines / Mary Grace R. Concepcion -- Letter to granddad: tracing the life of a leftist during the Malayan Emergency, 1948-60 / Sim Chi Yin -- The long, hot Cold Wars of Asia -- and Latin America / Alan McPherson -- An archipelagic turn: islands as method in understanding Cold War Asia / Taomo Zhou -- The Cold War in Asia / David C. Engerman. |
| Abstract | "Conventional narratives of the Cold War revolve around high-level diplomats and state leaders in Washington, Beijing, and Moscow, but this anthology challenges those narratives by revealing how ordinary people across Asia experienced the era. Heavily rooted in oral history, this study takes readers to the villages of rural Java; the jungles of northern Thailand; the indigenous tribal communities of Kerala, India; and many other places in this vast region. The essays in this collection demonstrate how the world took shape far away from the voluminously analyzed epicenters of the Soviet Union, the United States, and China. Masuda organizes each chapter around the theme of 'many Cold Wars,' or, more precisely, many local and social wars that were imagined as part of the global Cold War. These histories raise fundamental questions about standard Cold War narratives, encouraging readers to rethink why the Cold War still matters. Contributors are Mary Grace Concepcion, Simon Creak, Cui Feng, David Engerman, Prasit Leepreecha, Luong Thi Hong, Muhammad Kunhi Mahin Udma, Masuda Hajimu, Alan McPherson, Imam Muhtarom, Sim Chi Yin, Kisho Tsuchiva, Odd Arne Westad, Matthew Woolgar, Kinuko Maehara Yamazato, Bin Yang, and Taomo Zhou"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | In chapter 6's title, Kisho Tsuchiya's "Theorizing Southeast Asia's Cold War: Timor in 1974-75", the word "Cold" is deliberately crossed out. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Cold War Asia. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025] 9781469687858 |
| LCCN | 2025001940 |
| ISBN | 9781469686301 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1469686309 |
| ISBN | 9781469686318 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1469686317 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
| ISBN | PDF ebook |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000209018 |