Michael Szonyi

Cold War Island

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Produktbeschreibung

A discussion of the history of the island of Quemoy during the Cold War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780521726405
• ISBN-10: 0521726409
• Artikelnr.: 23802577

Autorenporträt

Michael Szonyi is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His publications include Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: ordinary life in an extraordinary place
Part I. Geopoliticization Ascendant: 2. The battle of Guningtou
3. Politics of the war zone, 1949-1960
4. The 1954-55 artillery war
5. Militarization and the Jinmen civilian self-defense forces, 1949-1960
6. The 1958 artillery war
Part II. Militarization and Geopoliticization Change Course: 7. The 1960s: creating a Model County of the Three Principles of the People
8. The 1970s: combat villages and underground Jinmen
Part III. Life in Cold War-Time: 9. Combat economy
10. Women's lives: military brothels, parades and emblems of mobilized modernity
11. Ghosts and Gods of the Cold War
Part IV. Demilitarization and Post-militarization: 12. Demilitarization and post-militarization
13. Memory and politics
14. Conclusion: redoubled marginality.