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Cold War orientalism

Klein, Christina, 1963-

Cold War orientalism Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / [electronic resource] : Christina Klein. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003. - xiv, 316 p. : ill.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






Orientalism--History--United States--20th century.
Public opinion--United States.
Asians in mass media.
Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
Popular culture--History--United States--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-


Electronic books.

DS33.4.U6 / K55 2003eb

950.4/24

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