Abstract
This chapter examines US cultural diplomacy through the career of Eileen Chang and her dealings with the United States Information Agency (USIA), the cultural diplomacy offshoot of the US State Department. Unlike the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), the USIA and the State Department were open about their sponsorship of cultural goods that changed how their position in the decolonizing parts of Asia were understood. It also seeks to show how South Africa's loss was the world's gain. The chapter discusses Alex La Guma's work to help explain how the cold war and the conditions of his exile frame his approach to anticolonial nationalism. It cites La Guma's travel writing in A Soviet Journey, which was originally commissioned and published by the Soviet firm Progress Publishers.
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