Author | Klein, Christina, 1963- |
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Title | Cold War orientalism [electronic resource] : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / Christina Klein |
Imprint | Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003 |
Connect to | http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=90479 |
Descript | xiv, 316 p. : ill ; 24 cm |
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