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Cold War orientalism：Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Klein Christina 1963-
Published: University of California Press,
Publisher Address: Berkeley
Publication Dates: 2003.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
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
United States > Relations > Asia
Asia > Relations > United States
Asia > Foreign public opinion, American
United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989
United States > Civilization > 1945
Carrier Form: xiv, 316 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0520232305 (paper : alk. paper)
Index Number: K305
CLC: K305
Call Number: K305/K641
Contents: 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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