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Politicizing Nostalgia: Cold War Theater in Taiwan and the US from the 1950s to the 1960s.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Politicizing Nostalgia: Cold War Theater in Taiwan and the US from the 1950s to the 1960s./
Author:	Wang, Li-Wen.
Description:	227 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-03A(E).
Subject:	Theater. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3602949
ISBN:	9781303564932

Politicizing Nostalgia: Cold War Theater in Taiwan and the US from the 1950s to the 1960s.
Wang, Li-Wen.

Politicizing Nostalgia: Cold War Theater in Taiwan and the US from the 1950s to the 1960s. - 227 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 2013.

This dissertation examines the performativity of politicized nostalgia in societies and on stage in Taiwan and the US during the early Cold War era, and how it transformed through different stages as the political milieu changed. As tension between democratic and communist governments rapidly developed after the fall of China in 1949, both the Kuomintang (KMT) government and the US authorities were eager to strengthen political control over their nations. By blending political ideology into the heart-felt nostalgia of the people, authorities found that politicized nostalgia became a useful tool for gaining widespread support of their political ideals. In Taiwan, in order to strengthen its political control, the KMT government, an exiled regime, promoted its anti-communist ideology, which not only helped to shift the hostility between the mainlanders and the islanders to the antagonism against the Chinese communists, but also helped to arouse nationalism and patriotism. Driven by the nostalgia for the lost homeland China, people in Taiwan took anti-communism as the principle that could lead them to their eventual homecoming. On stage, the anti-communist plays, although serving as the KMT government's political propaganda, helped to project wistful notions of homeland restoration. However, as the hope of eventual homecoming gradually waned with time, nostalgia for lost China propelled the society to construct Taiwan into a better new homeland. In the US, the loss of China made many Americans fear for the future because the impact of the expanding communist power remained unknown. As people felt nostalgic for life in the past, some conservative politicians, such as Joseph McCarthy, proposed to eliminate the "enemy within" in the name of reconstructing their previous lifestyle. Demanded both by the government and the people, a nationwide communist hunt and homosexual persecution were enforced. Responding to the political persecution, American theater challenged the so-called justice practiced by US authorities. As the US moved into the 1960s, incidents that involved radical violence signaled the social malfunction that resulted from the incapability of adapting to major changes in such a short period of time. However, it was these changes that nostalgia resisted which built America into what it is today.

ISBN: 9781303564932Subjects--Topical Terms:

522973
Theater.

Politicizing Nostalgia: Cold War Theater in Taiwan and the US from the 1950s to the 1960s.
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