Migration in the Time of Revolution
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-3993-4 (ISBN)
A Foreign Affairs "Best Books of 2020"
Honorable mention for the Harry J. Benda Prize (Southeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies)
The book is a delightful read and will be of great interest to scholars of Chinese migration, PRC history, Indonesian history, and the history of the international communist movement. ―South East Asia Research
Migration in the Time of Revolution examines how two of the world's most populous countries interacted between 1945 and 1967, when the concept of citizenship was contested, political loyalty was in question, identity was fluid, and the boundaries of political mobilization were blurred. Taomo Zhou asks probing questions of this important period in the histories of the People's Republic of China and Indonesia. What was it like to be a youth in search of an ancestral homeland that one had never set foot in, or an economic refugee whose expertise in private business became undesirable in one's new home in the socialist state? What ideological beliefs or practical calculations motivated individuals to commit to one particular nationality while forsaking another?
As Zhou demonstrates, the answers to such questions about "ordinary" migrants are crucial to a deeper understanding of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Through newly declassified documents from the Chinese Foreign Ministry Archives and oral history interviews, Migration in the Time of Revolution argues that migration and the political activism of the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia were important historical forces in the making of governmental relations between Beijing and Jakarta after World War II. Zhou highlights the agency and autonomy of individuals whose life experiences were shaped by but also helped shape the trajectory of bilateral diplomacy. These ethnic Chinese migrants and settlers were, Zhou contends, not passively acted upon but actively responding to the developing events of the Cold War.
This book bridges the fields of diplomatic history and migration studies by reconstructing the Cold War in Asia as social processes from the ground up.
Taomo Zhou is Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. Follow her on X @taomo_zhou.
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
A Note on Language
Introduction: Revolutionary Diplomacy and Diasporic Politics
1. The Chinese Nationalist Party and the Overseas Chinese
2. The Chinese Communist Party and the Overseas Chinese
3. The Diplomatic Battle between the Two Chinas
4. The Communal Battle between the Red and the Blue
5. Pribumi Perceptions of the "Chinese Problem"
6. The 1959–1960 Anti-Chinese Crisis
7. The Ambivalent Alliance between Beijing and Jakarta
8. China and the September Thirtieth Movement
9. Beijing, Taipei, and the Emerging Suharto Regime
10. The Overseas Chinese "Returning" to the People's Republic
Conclusion: "The Motherland Is a Distant Dream"
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.09.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | 20 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | Ithaca |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 907 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5017-3993-X / 150173993X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5017-3993-4 / 9781501739934 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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