Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia: Ideology, Identity, and Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Cold War Studies and the Cultural Cold War in Asia....Pages 1-16
The Early South Vietnamese Critique of Communism....Pages 17-32
“To Be Patriotic is to Build Socialism”: Communist Ideology in Vietnam’s Civil War....Pages 33-52
Indonesian Architectural Culture during Guided Democracy (1959–1965): Sukarno and the Works of Friedrich Silaban....Pages 53-72
Relocating Socialism: Asia, Socialism, Communism, and the PAP Departure from the Socialist International in 1976....Pages 73-92
Inventing a Proletarian Fiction for China: The Stalin Prize, Cultural Diplomacy, and the Creation of a Pan-Socialist Identity....Pages 93-111
Communist Vanguard Contest in East Asia during the 1960s and 1970s....Pages 113-125
The Rhetorical as Political: The Ramon Magsaysay Award and the Making of a Cold War Culture in Asia....Pages 127-143
Expulsion for a Mistranslated Poem: The Diplomatic Aspects of North Korean Cultural Policies....Pages 145-164
From Yaowaraj to Plabplachai: The Thai State and Ethnic Chinese in Thailand during the Cold War....Pages 165-185
Back Matter....Pages 187-234