Wen-Qing Ngoei
Biographic Data
| ID | 2099218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wen-Qing Ngoei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wen-Qing |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngoei |
| SIGNATURE | NGOEI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Singapore Management University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Emulating Empire
On/ In the Ground with Vietnamese Communists
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
The third and final volume of The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War examines key domestic, regional, and international developments in the period before and after the war's end, including its legal, environmental, and memorial legacies. The latter stages of the Vietnam War witnessed its apex as a Cold War crucible. The Sino-Soviet dispute, Sino-American rapprochement, Soviet-American détente, and global counter-culturalism served in various wa…
Exhibiting Transnationalism after Vietnam
This essay examines the Alpha Gallery, an independent artists’ cooperative that Malaysians and Singaporeans established, which staged art shows during the 1970s to spark an artistic renaissance in Southeast Asia. The cooperative’s transnational vision involved showcasing Balinese folk art as a primitive and, therefore, intrinsically Southeast Asian aesthetic, while asserting that it shared cultural connections with the Bengali Renaissance of the …
Circuits Broken, Remade, and Newly Forged
On April 3, 2020, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced in a televised speech that his government’s “decisive move” against the country’s “escalating” Covid-19 infections would be “like a circuit breaker.” He explained that for the next month the government would close all workplaces except those of key economic sectors and essential services; have all schools and universities shift to home-based, online learning; and impose tighter …
Re-thinking Region
More than twenty years ago, historian Robert McMahon pointed out that studies of U.S.-Southeast Asian relations with a “broad, regional focus” remain “surprisingly rare.”1 His observation came in the bibliographic essay accompanying his own contribution to this sparse field, and his book remains one of precious few examples. As Kenton Clymer demonstrates in the opening essay in this Roundtable, it remains the case that few scholars study U.S. rel…
The United States and the “Chinese Problem” of Southeast Asia
The United States and the “Chinese Problem” of Southeast Asia Wen-Qing Ngoei Wen-Qing Ngoei Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 240–252, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaa084 Published: 05 December 2020
The Storytellers of Korean Nationalism
As author David Fields notes in Foreign Friends, the received wisdom about the division of South Korea is that American “men with little knowledge of Korea” undertook at the close of the Pacific War to split the Korean peninsula along the 38th parallel, with the United States occupying the south and the USSR the north. This “wholly American action” supposedly gave no consideration to Korean aspirations (169). But this received wisdom is inaccurat…
Arc of Containment
This book recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from the Pacific War through the end of U.S. intervention in Vietnam. It argues that anticommunist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with pre-existing local antipathy toward China and the Chinese diaspora to usher the region from European-dominated colonialism into U.S. hegemony. Between the late 1940s and 1960s, Britain and its indigenous collaborators in Malaya …
Arc of Containment
Arc of Containment recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from World War II through the end of American intervention in Vietnam. Setting aside the classic story of anxiety about falling dominoes, Wen-Qing Ngoei articulates a new regional history premised on strong security and sure containment guaranteed by Anglo-American cooperation. Ngoei argues that anticommunist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with preexis…
There and back again
This essay examines how the history of the Cold War in Southeast Asia has shaped, and will likely continue to shape, the current Sino-US rivalry in the region. Expert commentary today typically focuses on the agendas and actions of the two big powers, the United States and China, which actually risks missing the bigger picture. During the Cold War, leaders of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) played a critical role in containing Chin…
A Wide Anticommunist Arc”
President Richard Nixon’s triangular diplomacy succeeded because a “wide anticommunist arc” of U.S. allies in Southeast Asia had confined the influence of both China and the USSR to the Indochinese states. Beijing and Moscow welcomed détente with Washington in order to accommodate to de facto U.S. hegemony in the region.
Doubling Down on Asia
The Domino Logic of the Darkest Moment
This essay argues that Anglo-American memories of Japan’s victory in Singapore in 1942, which British Prime Minister Winston Churchill labeled Britain’s “darkest moment” in World War II, soon would underpin the domino logic within u.s. Cold War strategy. For both American and British policymakers, Japan’s war machine had fused together in interconnected insecurity the bastions of Euro-American colonial power. In Southeast Asia, it had imposed the…
No prominent works on this page.
The Domino Logic of the Darkest Moment
This essay argues that Anglo-American memories of Japan’s victory in Singapore in 1942, which British Prime Minister Winston Churchill labeled Britain’s “darkest moment” in World War II, soon would underpin the domino logic within u.s. Cold War strategy. For both American and British policymakers, Japan’s war machine had fused together in interconnected insecurity the bastions of Euro-American colonial power. In Southeast Asia, it had imposed the…
A Wide Anticommunist Arc”
President Richard Nixon’s triangular diplomacy succeeded because a “wide anticommunist arc” of U.S. allies in Southeast Asia had confined the influence of both China and the USSR to the Indochinese states. Beijing and Moscow welcomed détente with Washington in order to accommodate to de facto U.S. hegemony in the region.
Doubling Down on Asia
Arc of Containment
This book recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from the Pacific War through the end of U.S. intervention in Vietnam. It argues that anticommunist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with pre-existing local antipathy toward China and the Chinese diaspora to usher the region from European-dominated colonialism into U.S. hegemony. Between the late 1940s and 1960s, Britain and its indigenous collaborators in Malaya …
Arc of Containment
Arc of Containment recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from World War II through the end of American intervention in Vietnam. Setting aside the classic story of anxiety about falling dominoes, Wen-Qing Ngoei articulates a new regional history premised on strong security and sure containment guaranteed by Anglo-American cooperation. Ngoei argues that anticommunist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with preexis…
There and back again
This essay examines how the history of the Cold War in Southeast Asia has shaped, and will likely continue to shape, the current Sino-US rivalry in the region. Expert commentary today typically focuses on the agendas and actions of the two big powers, the United States and China, which actually risks missing the bigger picture. During the Cold War, leaders of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) played a critical role in containing Chin…
The Storytellers of Korean Nationalism
As author David Fields notes in Foreign Friends, the received wisdom about the division of South Korea is that American “men with little knowledge of Korea” undertook at the close of the Pacific War to split the Korean peninsula along the 38th parallel, with the United States occupying the south and the USSR the north. This “wholly American action” supposedly gave no consideration to Korean aspirations (169). But this received wisdom is inaccurat…
Circuits Broken, Remade, and Newly Forged
On April 3, 2020, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced in a televised speech that his government’s “decisive move” against the country’s “escalating” Covid-19 infections would be “like a circuit breaker.” He explained that for the next month the government would close all workplaces except those of key economic sectors and essential services; have all schools and universities shift to home-based, online learning; and impose tighter …
Re-thinking Region
More than twenty years ago, historian Robert McMahon pointed out that studies of U.S.-Southeast Asian relations with a “broad, regional focus” remain “surprisingly rare.”1 His observation came in the bibliographic essay accompanying his own contribution to this sparse field, and his book remains one of precious few examples. As Kenton Clymer demonstrates in the opening essay in this Roundtable, it remains the case that few scholars study U.S. rel…
The United States and the “Chinese Problem” of Southeast Asia
The United States and the “Chinese Problem” of Southeast Asia Wen-Qing Ngoei Wen-Qing Ngoei Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 240–252, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaa084 Published: 05 December 2020
Exhibiting Transnationalism after Vietnam
This essay examines the Alpha Gallery, an independent artists’ cooperative that Malaysians and Singaporeans established, which staged art shows during the 1970s to spark an artistic renaissance in Southeast Asia. The cooperative’s transnational vision involved showcasing Balinese folk art as a primitive and, therefore, intrinsically Southeast Asian aesthetic, while asserting that it shared cultural connections with the Bengali Renaissance of the …
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
The third and final volume of The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War examines key domestic, regional, and international developments in the period before and after the war's end, including its legal, environmental, and memorial legacies. The latter stages of the Vietnam War witnessed its apex as a Cold War crucible. The Sino-Soviet dispute, Sino-American rapprochement, Soviet-American détente, and global counter-culturalism served in various wa…
Emulating Empire
On/ In the Ground with Vietnamese Communists
Political science (13 works) · History (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Economic history (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Asian Studies and History (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · China (5 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (5 works) · Southeast asia (5 works)