Cold War orientalism [electronic resource] : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / Christina Klein.
By: Klein, Christina
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Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003Description: xiv, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Orientalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Public opinion -- United States | Asians in mass media | Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States | Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Asia -- Foreign public opinion, American | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 | United States -- Relations -- Asia | Asia -- Relations -- United States | United States -- Civilization -- 1945-Genre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 950.4/24 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-302) index.
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.
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