Adrian Kwong

Historian of the intersection between sociocultural life and politics in the Sinophone world. My doctoral project, 'Adapting Diaspora Policy to the Asian Cold War : Republic of China Overseas Chinese Policy in Malaya and Vietnam, c. 1945-64', examines Republic of China/Taiwan diaspora policy in Cold War Southeast Asia, and I am currently developing a project understanding the changing public sphere of late-colonial Hong Kong from a social and cultural perspective. 

Working Papers 

‘Co-Sovereignty and Anti-Communist Diplomacy: The Free Villages in Saigon, 1954-61’, under revision at Cold War History 

Public Engagement

‘Xenophobia, Anti-Communism and the Making of Contemporary Chineseness’, The History Workshop (link: https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/anti-racism/xenophobia-anti-communism-and-the-making-of-contemporary-chineseness/) 

‘Disentangling International and Transnational Political Repression in Cold War Asia: ROC-Malay(si)a Cooperation in Political Warfare, 1963’, under review, SOAS China Blog 

Supervisor: Dr Jennifer Altehenger & Professor Rana Mitter