{"id":2946,"date":"2023-01-04T23:30:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T23:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2023-05-04T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T21:44:09","slug":"book-talk-diasporic-cold-warriors-with-chien-wen-kung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/2023\/01\/04\/book-talk-diasporic-cold-warriors-with-chien-wen-kung\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: Diasporic Cold Warriors with Chien-Wen Kung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, April 13, 2023, at 6p.m. PT, the <span class=\"S1PPyQ\">UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomed Professor Chien-Wen Kung to discuss his newly published monograph, <em>Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s<\/em><\/span><span class=\"S1PPyQ\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"S1PPyQ\">From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia and possibly the world\u2019s most exemplary overseas Chinese Cold Warriors. Fears of the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) and Southeast Asia\u2019s Chinese as conduits for PRC influence gripped states and societies then \u2013 as indeed they do today. Yet, ironically, the example of the Philippines shows that the &#8220;China&#8221; which intervened the most extensively in any Southeast Asian country during the Cold War was not the PRC. It was, rather, the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan. Drawing upon archival research and fieldwork in Taiwan, the Philippines, the United States, and China, Diasporic Cold Warriors tells for the first time this story of the Philippine Chinese as anticommunist partisans by tracing their evolving relationship with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Philippine state over the middle third of the 20th century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Diasporic Cold Warriors w\/ Chien-Wen Kung\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qgHZoY-LTYw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"S1PPyQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2947 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2022\/12\/Kung-Headshot-150x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"227\" \/>Chien-Wen Kung<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"S1PPyQ\"> is an Assistant Professor of History at the National University of Singapore and the author of <em>Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s<\/em>. His scholarship has also been published in Modern Asian Studies, the International History Review, and Asian Ethnicity. Born and raised in Singapore, he received his B.A. in History and English from Dartmouth College and Ph.D. in Modern Chinese and International and Global History from Columbia University. With funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and National Heritage Board in Singapore, he is currently working on a cultural history of Singapore-China-Taiwan relations in the 1970s and 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This event was made possible by the generous support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, April 13, 2023, at 6p.m. PT, the UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomed Professor Chien-Wen Kung to discuss his newly published monograph, Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s. 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