The Third World Without Superpowers: The Collected Documents of the Non-Aligned Countries Vols. 1–4 and The Nonaligned Movement in World Politics

1979 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-441
Author(s):  
Peter Willetts
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Malayanised Chinese-Language Cinema

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-164
Author(s):  
Wai-Siam Hee
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
The Third ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Way

The fifth chapter discusses how the Singaporean Chinese director Yi Shui created a Malayanised Chinese-language cinema during the 1950s and ’60s and offers a retrospective of the way people in Malaya and Singapore framed their nation-building discourse in relation to anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism after the Bandung Conference in 1955. This chapter rereads Yi Shui’s On Issues of the Malayanisation of Chinese-Language Cinema, examining its ‘Chinese-language cinema’ against the context of the Third World politics of ‘Malayanisation’ in the 1950s and ’60s. The chapter explores how Chinese-language cinema settles and resolves the diverse linguistic and cultural identities of Singaporean and Malayan Chinese audiences with varying backgrounds. ‘Chinese language’, as a term including both Mandarin and topolects, becomes a bargaining chip for Chinese-speaking peoples to resist the dual political oppression of English- and Malay-speaking groups. This chapter also analyses Yi Shui’s Chinese-language cinema practice through examining contemporary discourse and debates in Singaporean and Malayan periodicals on Malayanised Chinese-language cinema. The semi-documentary Third World film The Lion City and the melodrama Black Gold, set in a tin mine, feature multiple coexisting Chinese languages and attempt to mediate the misunderstandings rooted in the national boundaries and politics of various topolect groups.

Cushing Oration, 1990: Role of the United States in a changing world

1990 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 813-819
Author(s):  
Jimmy Carter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Third World ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Economic Bloc ◽  
The Impact

✓ In discussing the role of the United States in world politics, President Jimmy Carter described the changes in Europe as it prepares for unification into one economic bloc; the deteriorating conditions in the third world; the impact of the recent changes in communist countries; and the persistence of regional wars and civil disputes. He summarized the policies and activities of The Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. This nonprofit organization receives no government funds and can act as an independent agent in areas such as disease eradication and promotion of food production in the third world countries, and can intercede on behalf of peace in countries with civil unrest. He urged the members of the Association, as leaders of society, to use their influence in alleviating worldwide suffering.

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