Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism
by Wendy Cheng
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"Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact deeply political, shaped by Taiwan's colonial history and influenced by the global social movements of their times. As activists, they fought to make Taiwanese people visible as subjects of injustice and deserving of self-determination. Under the distorting shadows of Cold War show more geopolitics, the Kuomintang regime and collaborators across U.S. campuses attempted to control Taiwanese in the diaspora through extralegal surveillance and violence, including harassment, blacklisting, imprisonment, and even murder. Drawing on interviews with student activists and extensive archival research, Wendy Cheng documents how Taiwanese Americans developed tight-knit social networks as infrastructures for identity formation, consciousness development, and anticolonial activism. They fought for Taiwanese independence, opposed state persecution and oppression, and participated in global political movements"-- show lessTags
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Wendy Cheng is assistant professor of Asian Pacific American studies and justice and social inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She is coauthor of A Peoples Guide to Los Angeles.
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History
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- 327.5124907300904 — Society, government, & culture Political science International Relations: Spies Asia China & Korea S. E. China, Canton, Hong Kong, Taiwan (Formosa) Taiwan (Formosa)
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- E184 .T35 .C477 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans
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