Cold War Asia
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Alternative understandings of the Cold War based on on-the-ground experiences in Asia
Assimilation of the Chinese in Cold War Thailand
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Critique of the "Cold War as weather" approach
Deconstructing the Cold War world
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Framework of Asia as a method to reconsider the global
Going beyond the "people as hero
Going beyond the "people as heroheroine or victim" narratives
Going beyond the “people as hero/heroine or victim” narratives
Islam and Communism in Cold War Indonesia
Oral history of ordinary people
The Indonesian Mass Killing of 1965-66
Unlearning Cold War narratives
Use of "social warfare" as a category of analysis
Vernacular languages and perspectives in Asia
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- ISBN 9781469686301
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 2025
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
InterConnections is home to innovative global, international, and transregional histories of the long twentieth century. Books emphasize interactions and connections across three principal areas of inquiry: governments, militaries, and nonstate actors, including businesses; international organizations, nation-states, and individuals; and foreign and domestic policies. The series showcases work that transcends conventional geographic, temporal, and disciplinary borders, offering fresh and original perspectives on the making of the contemporary world.
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.
InterConnections is home to innovative global, international, and transregional histories of the long twentieth century. Books emphasize interactions and connections across three principal areas of inquiry: governments, militaries, and nonstate actors, including businesses; international organizations, nation-states, and individuals; and foreign and domestic policies. The series showcases work that transcends conventional geographic, temporal, and disciplinary borders, offering fresh and original perspectives on the making of the contemporary world.
Hajimu Masuda is assistant professor of history at the National University of Singapore.
