Cold War orientalism:Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961
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University of California Press,
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Publisher Address: | Berkeley |
Publication Dates: | 2003. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xiv, 316 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: | 0520232305 (paper : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | K305 |
CLC: | K305 |
Call Number: | K305/K641 |
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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. |