Podcast #32 – Arc of Containment: UK & US engagement in cold war Malaya & Singapore (with Ngoei Wen-Qing) 21 Jan 202418 Feb 2024 When we think about Southeast Asia during the Cold War, we usually think just about Indochina and the Vietnam War. But British counterinsurgency strategies and engagement with nationalist elites in…
Podcast #21 – The Cold War history of the Philippine Chinese (A conversation with Chien-Wen Kung) 12 Sep 2022 From the 1950s to the 1970s, no Chinese community in Southeast Asia was more vigilant in identifying and rooting out suspected communists, and committed to mobilising against the People's Republic…
Reviews Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico: Gender, Class and Memory 16 May 2021 This book is a unique contribution to Cold War discourse in that it is not about landless peasants or factory workers in sweatshops but about those who kept the transportation…
Reviews Moments of Silence: The unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok 15 Apr 2021 This book is valuable as both a scholarly contribution to Thai Cold War history as well as a deeply personal memoir of painful memories. Unlike every book reviewed so far…
Reviews Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex and Revolution in the Philippines 28 Jan 2021 This book by Vina Lanzona contributes to the history of revolutionary Cold War politics in Asia by highlighting the role of female revolutionaries. Focusing specifically on the Huk Rebellion in…
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