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

243 Pages·2009·2.219 MB·English

by  Tuong Vu, Wasana Wongsurawat (eds.)

Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia
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Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia
Ideology, Identity, and Culture
Edited by Tuong Vu and Wasana Wongsurawat
DYNAMICS OF THE COLD WAR IN ASIA
Copyright © Tuong Vu and Wasana Wongsurawat, 2009.
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Contents
List of Figures and Table vii
List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Cold War Studies and the Cultural Cold War in Asia 1
Tuong Vu
2 The Early South Vietnamese Critique of Communism 17
Tuan Hoang
3 “To Be Patriotic is to Build Socialism”: Communist
Ideology in Vietnam’s Civil War 33
Tuong Vu
4 Indonesian Architectural Culture during Guided
Democracy (1959–1965): Sukarno and the Works of
Friedrich Silaban 53
Setiadi Sopandi
5 Relocating Socialism: Asia, Socialism, Communism, and
the PAP Departure from the Socialist International
in 1976 73
Leong Yew
6 Inventing a Proletarian Fiction for China: The Stalin Prize,
Cultural Diplomacy, and the Creation of a
Pan-Socialist Identity 93
Nicolai Volland
7 Communist Vanguard Contest in East Asia during the
1960s and 1970s 113
Bernd Schaefer
8 The Rhetorical as Political: The Ramon Magsaysay
Award and the Making of a Cold War Culture in Asia 127
Rommel A. Curaming
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9 Expulsion for a Mistranslated Poem: The Diplomatic
Aspects of North Korean Cultural Policies 145
Balázs Szalontai
10 F rom Yaowaraj to Plabplachai: The Thai State and Ethnic
Chinese in Thailand during the Cold War 165
Wasana Wongsurawat
Notes 187
Index 225
List of Figures and Table
Figures
4.1 S ukarno congratulating F. Silaban during the prize-giving
ceremony of the National Monument competition (1955) 61
4.2 Sekolah Pertanian Menengah Atas Building (1948) 65
4.3 Bank Indonesia Building model in a photomontage (1955) 67
4.4 Silaban’s House (1959−1960) 69
Table
8.1 Major areas of concern and total number of awardees 132
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List of Contributors
Rommel A. Curaming is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of
Malay Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore. He completed
his PhD in Southeast Asian studies at the Australian National University
in Canberra with a thesis entitled “When Clio Meets the Titans:
Rethinking State-Historian Relations in Indonesia and the Philippines.”
He was a recipient of the Endeavour Award Fellowship 2008, which
allowed him to do postdoctoral research at the Philippines Australia
Studies Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has published articles
and reviews in international journals such as Sojourn, Kyoto Review of
Southeast Asia, Asia Pacifi c Forum, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian
Affairs, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, and Asia Pacifi c Social Science
Review.
Tuan Hoang is a PhD candidate in the Department of History, University
of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. His dissertation is concerned with
political and cultural ideology among noncommunist South Vietnamese,
especially those in Saigon. He has published reviews in the journal Cold
War History and the academic website H-Diplo.
Bernd Schaefer specializes in international Cold War history and is work-
ing on a book about East Asian communism and American-Soviet rivalry
in the 1960s and 1970s. He is a Senior Scholar with the Woodrow Wilson
International Center’s Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) in
Washington, DC, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of North
Korean Studies in Seoul, a Fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, and a
Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. His
publications include Ostpolitik, 1969–1974: Global and European Responses;
Historical Justice in International Perspective; North Korean “Adventurism”
and China’s Long Shadow, 1966–1972; American Détente and German
Ostpolitik, 1969–1972; and Staat und katholische Kirche in der GDR,
1945−1989 (State and Catholic Church in the GDR, 1945—1989).