Cold War orientalism [electronic resource] : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / Christina Klein.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.Description: xiv, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(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-
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- DS33.4.U6 K55 2003eb
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, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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