Outputs (4)

Cold War Diplomatic Surveillance: The British Government, the Chinese Mission, and the Aliens Order, August–November 1967 (2025)
Journal Article
Rawcliffe, D. (2025). Cold War Diplomatic Surveillance: The British Government, the Chinese Mission, and the Aliens Order, August–November 1967. International History Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2025.2480653

The Anglo–Chinese relationship reached a nadir during the Cultural Revolution and the Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots. The burning of the British Mission in Beijing and the subsequent hostage crisis further exacerbated the tensions. In response to these... Read More about Cold War Diplomatic Surveillance: The British Government, the Chinese Mission, and the Aliens Order, August–November 1967.

The “special relationship,” and the overseas Chinese: the Information Research Department (IRD) and the United States Information Agency (USIA) cold war partnership in East Asia, 1950s-1970s (2024)
Journal Article
Rawcliffe, D. (2025). The “special relationship,” and the overseas Chinese: the Information Research Department (IRD) and the United States Information Agency (USIA) cold war partnership in East Asia, 1950s-1970s. Intelligence and National Security, 40(1), 129-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2024.2433823

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Britain’s strategic role in the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia shaped the post-WWII contours and ramifications of what Winston Churchill famously dubbed the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’. Through its clandest... Read More about The “special relationship,” and the overseas Chinese: the Information Research Department (IRD) and the United States Information Agency (USIA) cold war partnership in East Asia, 1950s-1970s.

A successful transnational cold war intervention?: revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970 (2024)
Journal Article
Rawcliffe, D. (2024). A successful transnational cold war intervention?: revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970. Contemporary British History, 38(3), 404-425. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2024.2341135

Most ethnic Chinese living and working in Britain in the late 1960s were from Hong Kong’s New Territories. Many of these British migrants blamed the Hong Kong government for importing cheap foodstuffs and driving farmers off the land to build new inf... Read More about A successful transnational cold war intervention?: revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970.

Turning Over a New Leaf: The British Government, the Cultural Revolution, and the Ethnic Chinese Community in Britain, 1967–1968 (2021)
Journal Article
Rawcliffe, D. (2021). Turning Over a New Leaf: The British Government, the Cultural Revolution, and the Ethnic Chinese Community in Britain, 1967–1968. British Journal of Chinese Studies, 11, https://doi.org/10.51661/bjocs.v11i0.132

This article seeks to explain the transnational development of Maoism in the attempt to legitimise the Cultural Revolution and the 1967 Hong Kong Riots to Britain’s ethnic Chinese populace. Based primarily on a survey of ethnic Chinese in Britain und... Read More about Turning Over a New Leaf: The British Government, the Cultural Revolution, and the Ethnic Chinese Community in Britain, 1967–1968.