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

Book Summary

The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore presents a comparative analysis of three key cities—Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei—during the Cold War. Strategically positioned within international trade networks, these cities also served as critical nodes for both regional conflicts and cooperation. The comparison primarily focuses on their urban landscapes, drawing on the memories embedded in their collective memoryscapes, the imagery presented in their filmscapes, and the perceptions of their inhabitants, as reflected in fiction and films that portrayed urban life and the experiences of ordinary people. 

This volume explores both the shared characteristics of these cities as frontiers in the bipolar global system (divided between Communism and the Free World) and their distinctive features as unique spaces shaped by their own meanings and opportunities.

Editors

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 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).

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