Abstract

ABSTRACT In recent years, scholars have made strides in furthering our understanding of how the People’s Republic of China (PRC) engaged countries in the so-called ‘Third World’. Despite this, little has been said about the ways in which this solidarity was grounded in a shared, regional temporality. Focusing on the activities of the Chinese Peace Committee in the 1950s, this article uses the organisation’s various invocations of sharing an ‘Asian’ history with Japanese and Indian interlocutors to understand how the PRC positioned itself as a leader in the fight to preserve a decolonised Asia in the early Cold War.

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