Cold War orientalism Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961

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Cold War orientalism Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961

Title:

Cold War orientalism Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961

Author:

Klein, Christina, 1963-

Personal Author:

Klein, Christina, 1963-

Publication Information:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.

Physical Description:

xiv, 316 p. : ill.

Contents:

Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration -- Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment -- How to be an American abroad : James Michener's The voice of Asia, and postwar mass tourism -- Family ties as political obligation : Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the discourse of adoption -- Musicals and modernization : The king and I -- Asians in America : Flower drum song and Hawaii.

Subject Term:

Orientalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Public opinion -- United States.

Asians in mass media.

Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.

Geographic Term:

Asia -- Foreign public opinion, American.

United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.

United States -- Relations -- Asia.

Asia -- Relations -- United States.

United States -- Civilization -- 1945-

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