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Book SynopsisIn 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.
For the first time, Kung tells the story of the Philippine Chinese as pro-Ta
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Diasporic Cold Warriors is a well-researched, well-written and absorbing historical work.
* London School of Economics and Political Science *
