This Contradictory but Fantastic Thing

Student Networks and Political Activism in Cold War Taiwanese/America

Bibliographic Data

ID12469099
AuthorsWendy Cheng (corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume20
Issue2
Pages161-191
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jaas.2017.0015
OpenAlexW2625744846
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

In the 1960s and 1970s, tens of thousands of Taiwanese migrants came to the United States as graduate students during Taiwan's long period of martial law; many became politically active against the Kuomintang regime, and were subsequently blacklisted. This article examines these student migrants' processes of political formation and the vital networks through which their political consciousness took shape—in particular, Taiwanese student and community associations. These conditions of being are considered in the ideological and geopolitical context of the Cold War era, raising issues of legibility and visibility for geographies and histories occluded by U.S. militarism

Cold war · Consciousness · Context (archaeology · Geography · Geopolitics · Ideology · Militarism · Political consciousness · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visibility · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology