Overview
This book focuses on the neglected cultural front of the Cold War in Asia to explore the mindsets of Asian actors and untangle the complex cultural alliances that undergirded the security blocs on this continent.
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Author: T. Vu ,
W. Wongsurawat
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 1st ed. 2009
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781349383719
ISBN 10: 1349383716
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 29 January 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""Cold War history has been dominated for too long by those who thought they knew who were directing the Cold War around the world. Recent studies have begun to show how misleading that was. The authors in this volume have gone further to examine the active roles that Asian leaders played. They convincingly prove that the leaders were guided not only by national or developmental concerns but were also moved by cultural ideals that reflected both their own traditions and their response to universalist and internationalist aspirations. The important contributions made here challenge all historians to think afresh about the place of smaller powers in global affairs."" - Wang Gungwu, University Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore ""This volume makes a major contribution to the field by re-centering the origins and development of the Cold War in Asia, and demonstrating how crucial Asia was to the conflict. It uses rich, empirical cases, many of them never before presented in English, to explore the way in which the Cold War reshaped East and Southeast Asia - and how those developments in turn shaped the global Cold War. This is essential reading for all serious scholars of the postwar era."" - Rana Mitter, author of A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World ""Tuong Vu and Wasana Wongsurawat's volume stands out in the existing historiography in international relations in that it patently shifts the emphasis from the American side of the Cold War to the Asian ones. . . [It] makes it clear that culture was as important a tool for Asian states as it was for the superpowers trying to influence them. . . This book and the debate it stirs will surely advance the study of the cultural dimensions of the Cold War in Asia."" - H-Diplo, Christopher E. Goscha, Université du Québec à Montréal ""The essays. . . represent some of the most exciting work being done in international Cold War history."" - H-Diplo, Jessica M. Chapman, Williams College
"""Cold War history has been dominated for too long by those who thought they knew who were directing the Cold War around the world. Recent studies have begun to show how misleading that was. The authors in this volume have gone further to examine the active roles that Asian leaders played. They convincingly prove that the leaders were guided not only by national or developmental concerns but were also moved by cultural ideals that reflected both their own traditions and their response to universalist and internationalist aspirations. The important contributions made here challenge all historians to think afresh about the place of smaller powers in global affairs."" - Wang Gungwu, University Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore ""This volume makes a major contribution to the field by re-centering the origins and development of the Cold War in Asia, and demonstrating how crucial Asia was to the conflict. It uses rich, empirical cases, many of them never before presented in English, to explore the way in which the Cold War reshaped East and Southeast Asia - and how those developments in turn shaped the global Cold War. This is essential reading for all serious scholars of the postwar era."" - Rana Mitter, author of A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World ""Tuong Vu and Wasana Wongsurawat's volume stands out in the existing historiography in international relations in that it patently shifts the emphasis from the American side of the Cold War to the Asian ones. . . [It] makes it clear that culture was as important a tool for Asian states as it was for the superpowers trying to influence them. . . This book and the debate it stirs will surely advance the study of the cultural dimensions of the Cold War in Asia."" - H-Diplo, Christopher E. Goscha, Université du Québec à Montréal ""The essays. . . represent some of the most exciting work being done in international Cold War history."" - H-Diplo, Jessica M. Chapman, Williams College"
Cold War history has been dominated for too long by those who thought they knew who were directing the Cold War around the world. Recent studies have begun to show how misleading that was. The authors in this volume have gone further to examine the active roles that Asian leaders played. They convincingly prove that the leaders were guided not only by national or developmental concerns but were also moved by cultural ideals that reflected both their own traditions and their response to universalist and internationalist aspirations. The important contributions made here challenge all historians to think afresh about the place of smaller powers in global affairs. - Wang Gungwu, University Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore This volume makes a major contribution to the field by re-centering the origins and development of the Cold War in Asia, and demonstrating how crucial Asia was to the conflict. It uses rich, empirical cases, many of them never before presented in English, to explore the way in which the Cold War reshaped East and Southeast Asia - and how those developments in turn shaped the global Cold War. This is essential reading for all serious scholars of the postwar era. - Rana Mitter, author of A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World Tuong Vu and Wasana Wongsurawat's volume stands out in the existing historiography in international relations in that it patently shifts the emphasis from the American side of the Cold War to the Asian ones... [It] makes it clear that culture was as important a tool for Asian states as it was for the superpowers trying to influence them... This book and the debate it stirs will surely advance the study of the cultural dimensions of the Cold War in Asia. - H-Diplo, Christopher E. Goscha, Universite du Quebec a Montreal The essays... represent some of the most exciting work being done in international Cold War history. - H-Diplo, Jessica M. Chapman, Williams College
Author Information
TUONG VU is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, USA. WASANA WONGSURAWAT is Lecturer in modern Chinese history at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
