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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klein, Christina, 1963-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Orientalism > United States > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Social aspects > United States.
Public opinion > United States.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Asians in mass media.
Asia > Foreign public opinion, American.
United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989.
United States > Civilization > 1945-
United States > Relations > Asia.
Asia > Relations > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.