PhD Candidate in History Yasser Nasser Published in Cold War History

Published on May 24, 2023 

The Department of History's Yasser Nasser was recently published in Cold War History. Nasser is recipient of the 2023 Philip A. Kuhn Dissertation Prize in Chinese Studies from the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago.

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, Yasser's article, ‘To defend the peace of Asia’: the Chinese Peace Committee and visions of Asian history, 1949–60," 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.

Read his article here.