6. The Heart of the Berlin of the East : Victoria Park, Queen’s College, and Causeway Bay in Cold War Hong Kong

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Introduction : The Cold War through the Lens of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore 9
5. Part I Taipei
6. 1. Building a Transnational Anticommunist Network : The Operation and Implications of the USIS Presence in Taipei 25
7. 2. The Cityscape and Mindscape in Pai Hsien-yung’s Taipei People 45
8. 3. The Frontier Behind the Curtain : Contextualizing Eileen Chang’s “A Return to the Frontier” 67
9. 4. The City through the Lens : Cold War Taipei in Bai Jingrui’s Films, 1960–80 99
10. 5. Islamic Enclaves in Taipei and Transnational Entanglements during the Cold War 117
11. Part 2 Hong Kong
12. 6. The Heart of the Berlin of the East : Victoria Park, Queen’s College, and Causeway Bay in Cold War Hong Kong 149
13. 7. Pro-Communist Mandarin Cinema in Cold War Hong Kong 169
14. 8. A Model Market Town on the Cold War Frontier : Luen Wo Market in the New Territories, 1947–79 195
15. 9. The Future Takes Wing : Kai Tak Airport and the Repositioning of Hong Kong, 1958-78 219
16. Part 3 Singapore
17. 10. Cityscape and Memoryscape : The Cold War and Monuments of Commemoration in Singapore 247
18. 11. Reading Multiculturalism on Screen : Cold War Politics and the Shaw Brothers Film Networks in Singapore and Malaya 269
19. 12. Urban Planning as Cold War Battleground : How Singapore Built Its Nation-State by Defeating the Barisan Sosialis 291
20. 13. Changi Airport and the Making of Nonaligned Singapore : Neoliberalism and Neutrality during the Cold War 315
21. Index 337