Cold War orientalism
Subtitle: Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961
By: Christina Klein.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
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.; Asia -- Foreign public opinion, American.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.; United States -- Relations -- Asia.; Asia -- Relations -- United States.; United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-302) index.
Table of contents: title: Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration; title: Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment; title: How to be an American abroad : James Michener's The voice of Asia, and postwar mass tourism; title: Family ties as political obligation : Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the discourse of adoption; title: Musicals and modernization : The king and I; title: Asians in America : Flower drum song and Hawaii.