Outputs (2)

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. (2024). 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, 1-22. 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.