Silences in history and nation-state: Reluctant accounts of the Cold War in Sarawak

American Ethnologist

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 462-473

  Yong, Kee Howe ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold War; Communism; Forgetting; Memory; Sarawak Chinese Hakkas; Silence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745910206     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2006.33.3.462     Document Type: Article

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