"This volume makes a major contribution to the field by re-centering the origins and development of the Cold War in Asia, and demonstrating how crucial Asia was to the conflict. It uses rich, empirical cases, many of them never before presented in English, to explore the way in which the Cold War reshaped East and Southeast Asia - and how those developments in turn shaped the global Cold War. This is essential reading for all serious scholars of the postwar era." - Rana Mitter, author of A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World

"Tuong Vu and Wasana Wongsurawat's volume stands out in the existing historiography in international relations in that it patently shifts the emphasis from the American side of the Cold War to the Asian ones. . . [It] makes it clear that culture was as important a tool for Asian states as it was for the superpowers trying to influence them. . . This book and the debate it stirs will surely advance the study of the cultural dimensions of the Cold War in Asia." - H-Diplo, Christopher E. Goscha, Université du Québec à Montréal

"The essays. . . represent some of the most exciting work being done in international Cold War history." - H-Diplo, Jessica M. Chapman, Williams College