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Monday, 23rd November 2015
Purity and Order: Toward Social-Cultural Understandings of the Cold War World
Dr Hajima Masuda (National University of Singapore)
17:00-19:00
Room: Djam Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG
Abstract
What was the Cold War? In this seminar, Hajima Masuda inquires into the peculiar nature of the Cold War through examining not only centres of policymaking, but seeming aftereffects of Cold War politics: Suppression of counterrevolutionaries in China, the White Terror in Taiwan, the Red Purge in Japan, and McCarthyism in the United States. Such purges were not merely end results of the Cold War, Masuda argues, but forces that necessitated the imagined reality of the Cold War in attempts at restoring purity and tranquillity at home. Revealing social functions and popular participation, Masuda highlights ordinary people's roles in making and maintaining the "reality" of the Cold War, raising the question of what the Cold War really was.
Biography
Hajima Masuda is a historian whose work concerns the history of American foreign relations, the modern history of East Asia, and the social and global history of the Cold War. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 2012, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World (Harvard University Press, 2015), and has published a number of book chapters and articles which can be found in Foreign Policy, Diplomatic History, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Cold War Studies, and Journal of American-East Asian Relations, as well as IIAS Newsletter and History News Network.
Further details:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/china-institute/events/seminars/
We look forward to seeing you there.
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SCI Seminar Series: http://www.soas.ac.uk/china-institute/events/seminars/
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Li-Sa Whittington
Executive Officer, SOAS China Institute
SOAS, University of London
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