Hong Kong in the global Cold War

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Notes

1. See, in particular, Westad, O. A. The Global Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

2. This point has been raised by several authors in passing when discussing Hong Kong in the Cold War period. See Tsang, A Modern History of Hong Kong; Tucker, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States, 206–7.

3. This trend can be further explored through Westad’s The Global Cold War, and methodologically in Mooney and Lanza, de-centering Cold War History; Hasegawa, The Cold War in East Asia 1945–1991; Vu and Wongsurawat, Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia, which combines aspects of both ‘broadening’ and ‘de-centring’. Recent excellent explorations in the current state of Cold War historiography include Romero, F., ‘Historiography at the Crossroads’, 685–703 (and its rebuttal: Grosser, P., ‘Looking for the Core of the Cold War, and finding a Mirage?’ Cold War History, 15/2 (2015), pp. 245–252).

4. Mark, Hong Kong in the Cold War.

5. See Share, ‘The Soviet Union, Hong Kong and the Cold War, 1945–1970’.

6. Loescher, The UNHCR and World Politics.

7. See for an initial exploration of American efforts in creating a ‘Third Force’ against both Communist and KMT factions: Jeans, CIA and Third Force Movements.

8. The ‘Workshop’ provides a problematic arena for producing edited volumes. Ever since history was professionalised and institutionalised as an academic discipline is has been widely accepted that scholarship requires vehicles for advancement. Although originally primarily a vehicle for social history, the ‘history workshop’ approach soon spread to other branches of the historical profession – including international history. The History Workshop web page asserts that ‘[f]rom its beginnings in the 1960s, the History Workshop movement advocated “history from below”: history envisioned from the perspective of ordinary people rather than elites. To that end, it sought to move the study of the past beyond the academy into public gatherings – “workshops” – that were open to anyone.’ History Workshop, ‘About HWO’, http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/about-us/ (accessed 30 April 2017). On this movement, see Schwarz, ‘History on the Move’, 203–20.

9. Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour in the wartime coalition government, and Foreign Secretary in the 1945–51 Labour government.

10. Kent, British Imperial Strategy.

11. On this, see French, Fighting EOKA, for a recent and comprehensive account, and by the same author, French, ‘British Intelligence and the Origins of the EOKA Insurgency’, 84–100, which covers the same ground as Sutton but places EOKA’s emergence in centre stage.

12. Mark, Hong Kong and the Cold War.