Un/making homeland: Sinophone literature and Cold War culture in Malaya

该项目旨在通过中国侨民的经历和文学来促进对冷战文化和非殖民化的理解。通过发掘大量未被发掘的档案，运用文学分析和民族志，这个跨学科的项目首次提供了对冷战时期马来亚华语文学和印刷文化的全面研究。预期的结果包括了解海外华人作家如何在东南亚的反共暴力中主张自己的主体性，这将揭示地缘政治、文学和身份之间复杂的相互作用。这个项目有助于澳大利亚人理解中国侨民对“旧”冷战期间全球超级大国竞争的反应，以及今天类似的现象。

This project aims to advance understanding of Cold War culture and decolonisation through Chinese diaspora experience and literature. By unearthing a corpus of underexplored archives, using literary analysis and ethnography, this interdisciplinary project offers the first comprehensive study of Sinophone literature and print culture in Cold War Malaya. Expected outcomes include new knowledge of how Chinese diaspora writers claim subjecthood amidst anti-communist violence in Southeast Asia, which shed light on the complex interplay of geopolitics, literature and identity. This project benefits Australian understanding of Chinese diaspora responses to global superpower rivalry during the ‘old’ Cold War amidst a similar phenomenon today.