... Studies 2023 Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam . By Nu-Anh Tran . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2022 . xiv, 240 pp. ISBN: 9780824887865 . ...

... Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia . By John Roosa . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2020 . 352 pp. ISBN: 9780299327309 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 In the self-proclaimed sequel to his groundbreaking book...

...Brian Hurley Abstract In 1957, the Japanese affiliate of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an international anticommunist organization dedicated to the liberal ideals of the “free world,” convened a symposium under the title “Tradition and Transition in Japanese Culture” (“Nihon bunka no dentō...

... to gain profit or status, anticommunist practices became a means for the local Chinese to exhibit to the KMT, the Philippine state, and Philippine society in general that they were not “problematic foreigners.” In a sense, although Kung does not describe it in this way, we can view anticommunist practice...

... “introduced an anticommunist necropolitical order in which unfreedom would be presented as freedom, democratization as democracy, and militarism as the basis for life itself” (p. 3). Thereafter, when the Cold War turned “hot” in Korea and Vietnam, the United States exerted more “police power” and police...

... armies into American imperial service. He also points out that many common soldiers in the Republic of Korea were refugees pushed out of the communizing north. Yet, Man does fully not consider their ideological motivations. Numerous anticommunist youth groups spread across the southern peninsula during...

..., powerless South Korean workers, hemmed in by the hegemony of anticommunism fused with the “growth-first” ideology of rapid capitalist development, had to fight an uphill battle against both the anticommunist and authoritarian developmental state and the wishes of their local and upper-level unions...

... anticommunist propagandist films in the 1950s and 1960s. Hee analyzes these films portraying the New Village as case studies. The fourth chapter examines Hollywood productions of anticommunist, multilingual Chinese films in Singapore, commissioned by the US State Department during the global “Campaign of Truth...

... examines the continuing force of anticommunist ideological pressure through analysis of Ajip Rosidi's novel, Anak Tanahair (Native Son), Jakarta: Gramedia, 1985. In the section on Java, Kenneth Orr offers descriptions of events that took place in two villages at the end of 1965- He focuses...

... examines the continuing force of anticommunist ideological pressure through analysis of Ajip Rosidi's novel, Anak Tanahair (Native Son), Jakarta: Gramedia, 1985. In the section on Java, Kenneth Orr offers descriptions of events that took place in two villages at the end of 1965- He focuses...

...: "With my short height, dark hair, and somewhat slanted eyes, I have indeed the physical appearance of a Eurasian, mixed-blood Vietnamese woman" (p. 12). Bousquet bases her entire book on the thesis that Vietnamese in Paris are polarized into "pro-Hanoi" and "anticommunist" political factions...

... for the international phase of the Korean War (1950–53). This turn of events solidified the division and aggravated mass displacement such that by 1953, almost three million refugees remained in the South alone (Kim A. 2017 : 71). The destruction caused by war established anticommunist South Korea as a major recipient...

... Alliance, 1949-1955. By D A V I D ALLAN MAYERS. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. xiv, 176 pp. David Mayers's book is the best work to date on U.S. policy toward Sino-Soviet relations. Its central thesis is that, public anticommunist rhetoric notwithstanding, 864 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... to publicly investigate and condemn Service's behavior; and the author's zeal to prove Service's innocence as a victim of the anticommunist zeitgeist of the Cold War era. As the author aptly offers, Service “may have indeed become too zealous in promoting his policy views” (p. 147). In fact...

.... Furthermore, the Philippines was one of the main anticommunist bastions in the region; the policies of the government toward communism and the challenges it experienced from within helped create a template for other countries in the region for how to deal with communist movements. The volume would be more...

...-called "reverse course," American policymakers sought to integrate Japan into an anticommunist Pacific order over which the U.S. would maintain unquestioned hegemony. As a consequence, he suggests, the U.S. ultimately faced both the disaster of the Vietnam war and the unintended transformation...

... Vietnamese interest in a compromise settlement even when that might have provided an avenue for disengagement because the United States was so determined to retain the south as a separate, sovereign, anticommunist state. American suspicion of interest in compromise and neutralization was a factor...

... of eight Americans involved in the planning and execution of Occupation policy. Howard Schonberger argues that, over the course of the Occupation and particularly via the so-called "reverse course," American policymakers sought to integrate Japan into an anticommunist Pacific order over which the U.S...

... the Communists tried to take over, the antiCommunists responded and Indonesians "righted their system" (p. 403). Although "ridiculous as it may seem, Sukarnoism is so widely and fervently accepted by the masses that even the new regime must at least pay lip service to it" (p. 384). Malaysia, being...

... countries are now making and so does not have to make them again" (P- 3i7)Indonesia, on the other hand, has obviously been following foolish policies. Even so, when the Communists tried to take over, the antiCommunists responded and Indonesians "righted their system" (p. 403). Although "ridiculous as it may...