Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War

Tze-ki Hon is Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Geneseo. His research interests include the philosophy of the Book of Changes, 20th century Chinese socio-political changes, New Confucianism in contemporary China, and Cold War Hong Kong. Ying-kit Chan is Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. His books include Southeast Asia in China: Historical Entanglements and Contemporary Engagements (2023), Contesting Chineseness: Ethnicity, Identity, and Nation in China and Southeast Asia (2021), and Alternative Representations of the Past: The Politics of History in Modern China (2020).

• Introduction: The Cold War through the Lens of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Tze-ki Hon & Ying-kit Chan, Part 1: Taipei, 1. Building a Transnational Anticommunist Network: The Operation and Implications of the USIS Presence in Taipei, Pei-yin Lin, 2. The Cityscape and Mindscape in Pai Hsien-yung's Taipei People, Hsiao-Hui Chang, 3. The 'Frontier' Behind the Curtain: Contextualizing Eileen Chang's A Return to the Frontier, Chia-chi Chao, 4. The City through the Lens: Cold War Taipei in Bai Jingrui's Films, 1960-1980, Mei-Hsuan Chiang, 5. Islamic Enclaves in Taipei and Transnational Entanglements during the Cold War, Janice Hyeju Jeong, Part 2: Hong Kong, 6. The Heart of 'Berlin of the East': Victoria Park, Queen's College and Causeway Bay in Cold War Hong Kong, Brian Tsui & Joseph Gregory Yu, 7. Pro-Communist Mandarin Cinema in Cold War Hong Kong, Po-Shek Fu, QIN Yameng, Man-Fung Yip, 8. A Model Market Town on the Cold War Frontier: Luen Wo Market in the New Territories, 1947-1979, Anthony H. F. Li, 9. The Future Takes Wings: Kai Tak Airport and the Repositioning of Hong Kong, 1958-1978, Tze-ki Hon, Part 3: Singapore, 10. Cityscape and Memoryscape: The Cold War and Monuments of Commemoration in Singapore, Kevin Blackburn, 11. Reading Multi-Culturalism on Screen: Cold War Politics and the Shaw Brothers Film Networks in Singapore and Malaya, Soo Ei Yap, 12. Urban Planning as Cold War Battleground: How the PAP Built a Nation-State by Defeating the Barisan Sosialis, Yan Bo, 13. Changi Airport and the Making of 'Non-Aligned' Singapore: Neoliberalism and Neutrality during the Cold War, Ying-kit Chan.