The Chaoshan region of Guangdong province, a representative overseas Chinese dialect group that traveled to and from the South China Sea in the 19th and 20th centuries, comprises nine counties and the Shantou city. The overseas Chinese community of Chaoshan and their diaspora in Southeast Asia continued to interact during a period of global upheaval. This study examines their struggle for identity formation during the Cold War, when ideological conflicts and nationalism were simultaneously on the rise. In particular, "Chaozhou Hometown News," a newspaper published intensively during the Cold War from 1947 to 1962, is an important source for examining how overseas Chinese and their hometown interacted during the Cold War. This study focuses on its introduction and brief analysis. A Qiaokan, the overseas Chinese magazine, is a periodical published by overseas Chinese and hometown communities to communicate with each other, and the "Chaozhou Hometown News", which is the subject of this study, has three main archival values. First, it is important in terms of studying the overseas Chinese magazine published by Chaoshan community, given that the existing studies on the overseas Chinese magazine have been mostly based on the periodicals published in Taishan, Guangdong. Second, it is unique that most of the existing studies on the overseas Chinese magazine focus on the publication in the 1920s and 30s, during the war years, and after the reform and opening up of the PRC, while "Chaozhou Hometown News", which was published only during the Cold War (1947-1962), is an important source of information on the perceptions of their hometown among overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia during the Cold War and the transformation of their transnational regional identity in the transition from the era of Empires to the era of nation-states. Third, while most of these publications have been published for overseas Chinese by private organizations or local governments in the hometown to encourage interest in and economic support for the hometown or the motherland, this study can be discussed in a different dimension because "Chaozhou Hometown News" had been published in Singapore and distributed to the hometown area by a group of overseas Chinese from Chaozhou in Singapore and Malaya to strengthen their links with the hometown at the beginning of the Cold War. This study introduces the outline, overall structure, and main contents of the "Chaozhou Hometown News," and analyzes individual cover images (photos and paintings) of all 273 issues to examine the ways in which the links between overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and the hometown community in China were maintained, adapted, and changed during the Cold War. The results suggest that the structure and format of the magazine, as well as its cover images, reveal the overseas Chinese and hometown communities of Chaoshan sought to survive by maintaining their regional identity as dialectal groups within the Asian Cold War framework of the transition from imperialism to nationalism.