Cold War Asia

Préface
This innovative, interdisciplinary collection uses visual sources to explore the role of Asia in Cold War global diplomacy.

Auteur
Matthew Phillips is a diplomat based in Bangkok. Naoko Shimazu is a global historian of Asia and Professor at Tokyo College, International Institute for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo.

Contenu
List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: visual sources and diplomacy Matthew Phillips and Naoko Shimazu; 1. Reframing non-alignment: Tito, Sukarno and the 1961 Belgrade conference Dejan Djoki ; 2. In the image of Imelda: the surrogate diplomacy of the First Lady Patrick Flores; 3. Meeting of the kings: the dream factory and cold war diplomacy Jirayudh Sinthuphan; 4. Conquering the world: King Bhumibol's 1960 visit to Burma on film Matthew Phillips; 5. Between style and substance: West German president Heinrich Lübke in Indonesia in 1963 Christian Goeschel; 6. A photograph with two stories: Lisa Larsen and the bandung conference of 1955 Naoko Shimazu; 7. Waxwork wars: exhibiting the Japanese surrender over half a century in Singapore Paul Rae; 8. Cosmic envoy: interkosmos and the poetics of late socialist spaceflight Gerard Sasges; 9. A diplomatic image and its afterlife: Bangkok 1967 and ASEAN's creation myth Deepak Nair; 10. Picturing power: a photographer's view Tom White; Index.