In the Name of Anticommunism
Chinese practices of ideological accommodation in the early Cold War Philippines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3634801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chien-Wen Kung (University of the Pacific, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 05 |
| Pages | 1543-1573 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x17000488 |
| OpenAlex | W2943870702 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article builds on work by social and cultural historians of the Cold War such as Heonik Kwon and Masuda Hajimu by showing how three groups of Chinese actors helped create the locally specific reality of Chinese anticommunism in the Philippines during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It argues that, in a climate thick with Sinophobia and fears of communism, but largely devoid of actual Chinese Reds, anticommunism for the Chinese was only secondarily about rooting out subversives, ideological authenticity, and supporting Chiang Kai-shek's counterattack against mainland China. As a social phenomenon, it was primarily a diverse and flexible repertoire of practices, from crime to civic associationism, that Chinese elites and their challengers employed to bolster their reputations as anticommunists, enrich themselves, and pursue vendettas against their 'communist' enemies. By focusing on these practices of what I call ideological accommodation, the article intervenes in scholarship on the Chinese diaspora after the Second World War by showing that anticommunism was essential to how the overseas Chinese adapted to being resident 'aliens' in post-colonial Philippine society
Accommodation · China · Communism · Ideology · Mainland China · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philippine History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |