"This Contradictory but Fantastic Thing": Student Networks and Political Activism in Cold War Taiwanese/America

Abstract

In the 1960s and 1970s, tens of thousands of Taiwanese migrants came to the United States as graduate students during Taiwan's long period of martial law; many became politically active against the Kuomintang regime, and were subsequently blacklisted. This article examines these student migrants' processes of political formation and the vital networks through which their political consciousness took shape—in particular, Taiwanese student and community associations. These conditions of being are considered in the ideological and geopolitical context of the Cold War era, raising issues of legibility and visibility for geographies and histories occluded by U.S. militarism.

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