Jeremy E. Taylor

Lanjun Xu

This book explores contested notions of "Chineseness" in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong during the Cold War, showing how competing ideas about "Chineseness" were an important ideological factor at play in the region. After providing an overview of the scholarship on "Chineseness" and "diaspora", the book sheds light on specific case studies, through the lens of the "Chinese cultural Cold War", from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. It provides detailed examples of competition for control of definitions of "Chineseness" by political or politically oriented forces of diverse kinds, and shows how such competition was played out in bookstores, cinemas, music halls, classrooms, and even sports clubs and places of worship across the region in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The book also demonstrates how the legacies of these Cold War contestations continue to influence debates about Chinese influence – and "Chineseness" – in Southeast Asia and the wider region today.

Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong

Chineseness and the Cold War

Introduction: Visual histories of occupation(s) / Jeremy E. Taylor -- The "visual occupation regime" in postwar East Germany, 1945-61 / Alexey Tikhomirov -- "Fagin in Berlin provokes a riot" : David Lean's Oliver Twist and perceptions of Jews in allied-occupied Germany / Emily Oliver -- Cultural memories of occupation in the Japanese cinema theatre, 1945-52 / Jennifer Coates -- Occupation, resistance and collaboration : triangulating Japan, the Philippines and Singapore through Fernando Amorsolo's Defend thy honor / Pearlie Rose S. Baluyut -- Art for security : the weaponizing of Israeli art in times of emergency / Maayan Amir -- Humour in states of occupation : contemporary art and cultural resilience in Palestine, Greece and Australia / Chrisoula Lionis -- Photojournalism as a means of deception in Nazi-occupied Poland, 1939-45 / Miriam Y. Arani -- Re-visualizing Okinawa : gender, race and Cold War US occupation in The Okinawa graphic / Mire Koikari -- An uncanny architecture of cultural heritage : representations of the Japanese Occupation in Harbin, China / Jean Hillier & Shulan Fu -- National narratives of "occupation" in historical museums of the post-Soviet landscape / Katarzyna Jarosz -- Occupying (imagined) landscapes / Noga Stiassny -- Epilogue. "Retrocede Hong Kong!" Towards a comparative study of the visuality of occupation(s) / Jeremy E. Taylor.

A Transcultural Dialogue

Visual Histories of Occupation

Russell Skelchy

"This open access book asks how have auditory environments in different contexts contributed to understanding imperial occupation, and how has it given rise to historical music cultures? How are sound and music implicated in the state control and discipline of people? Exploring case studies of foreign occupation from around the world, Visual Histories of Occupation seeks to answer these questions and more. Examining how an emphasis on auditory culture adds complexity and nuance to understanding the relationship between occupation and the bodily senses, this book is structured around three conceptual themes; voice and occupation, memory, sound and occupation, and auditory responses to occupation. Highlighting case studies in Asia, the Middle East, North America and Europe contributors employ a range of theoretical approaches to examine histories of imperialism and the auditory legacies they created, and contribute to a wider dialogue about the relationship between sound and imperial projects across political and temporal boundaries. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council"--

Jeremy E. Taylor

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