Cold War Asia

“The volume is illuminating throughout. A microhistorical approach using subject interviews allows readers to understand the push and pull between global trends and specific local contexts. . . . By grounding their narratives in villages, towns and everyday lives, the volume’s authors challenge their readers to rethink and expand the meaning of the Cold War.”—International Affairs

“Cold War Asia stresses agency in constructing the Cold War realities in different Asian localities. It goes beyond the social and cultural turn, which treats the Cold War as external, given conditions imposed upon Asian societies, by interrogating the fundamental assumptions underlying existing scholarship.”— Cultural History

“This volume. . . deserves a hearty ¡felicidades! Each of the chapters features never-before-used sources—especially oral histories— historiographical innovation, and analytical sophistication.”—Alan McPherson, author of The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy

“The contributors to this volume argue that it does not make sense to simply look at the Cold War as imported into Asia or understand it from the top down. Instead, this book makes an excellent starting point for alternative explorations.”—Odd Arne Westad, author of The Cold War: A World History

"Cold War Asia. . . .[i]nvites us to take advantage of historical distance to find not just new sources but new perspectives on a dominant element of the twentieth-century world—one whose legacies we are still reckoning with some three decades later.”—David C. Engerman, author of The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India