The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War
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The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War

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The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War

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This volume presents a comparative analysis of three key cities—Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei—during the Cold War. Strategically positioned within international trade networks, these cities also served as critical nodes for both regional conflicts and cooperation. The comparison primarily focuses on their urban landscapes, drawing on the memories embedded in their collective memoryscapes, the imagery presented in their filmscapes, and the perceptions of their inhabitants, as reflected in fiction and films that portrayed urban life and the experiences of ordinary people. The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War explores both the shared characteristics of these cities as frontiers in the bipolar global system (divided between Communism and the Free World) and their distinctive features as unique spaces shaped by their own meanings and opportunities.

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Yes, you can access The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War by Tze-ki Hon,Ying-kit Chan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040789063
Topic
History
Subtopic
Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Introduction: The Cold War through the Lens of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore
  8. Part 1 Taipei
  9. 1. Building a Transnational Anticommunist Network: The Operation and Implications of the USIS Presence in Taipei
  10. 2. The Cityscape and Mindscape in Pai Hsien‐yung’s Taipei People
  11. 3. The Frontier Behind the Curtain: Contextualizing Eileen Chang’s “A Return to the Frontier”
  12. 4. The City through the Lens: Cold War Taipei in Bai Jingrui’s Films, 1960–80
  13. 5. Islamic Enclaves in Taipeiand Transnational Entanglements during the Cold War
  14. Part 2 Hong Kong
  15. 6. The Heart of the Berlin of the East: Victoria Park, Queen’s College, and Causeway Bay in Cold War Hong Kong
  16. 7. Pro‐Communist Mandarin Cinema in Cold War Hong Kong
  17. 8. A Model Market Town on the Cold War Frontier: Luen Wo Market in the New Territories, 1947–79
  18. 9. The Future Takes Wing: Kai Tak Airport and the Repositioning of Hong Kong, 1958‐78
  19. Part 3 Singapore
  20. 10. Cityscape and Memoryscape: The Cold War and Monuments of Commemoration in Singapore
  21. 11. Reading Multiculturalism on Screen: Cold War Politics and the Shaw Brothers Film Networks in Singapore and Malaya
  22. 12. Urban Planning as Cold War Battleground: How Singapore Built Its Nation‐State by Defeating the Barisan Sosialis
  23. 13. Changi Airport and the Making of Nonaligned Singapore: Neoliberalism and Neutrality during the Cold War
  24. Index