AuthorKlein, Christina, 1963-
TitleCold War orientalism [electronic resource] : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / Christina Klein
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003
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Descript xiv, 316 p. : ill ; 24 cm

CONTENT

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

  1. Orientalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  2. Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States
  3. Public opinion -- United States
  4. Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  5. Asians in mass media
  6. Asia -- Foreign public opinion
  7. American
  8. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989
  9. United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
  10. United States -- Relations -- Asia
  11. Asia -- Relations -- United States
  12. Electronic books.