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Cold War orientalism : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961
- Title
- Cold War orientalism : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / Christina Klein.
- Author
- Klein, Christina, 1963-
- Publication
- Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 2003.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 316 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- United States > Civilization > 1945-
- Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century
- Cold War > Social aspects > United States
- United States > Relations > Asia
- United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989
- Orientalism > United States > History > 20th century
- Asia > Foreign public opinion, American
- Asia > Relations > United States
- Public opinion > United States
- Asians in mass media
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-302) index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *OAC 03-1178
- ISBN
- 0520224698 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520232305 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002013310
- OCLC
- 50554805
- Author
- Klein, Christina, 1963-
- Title
- Cold War orientalism : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / Christina Klein.
- Imprint
- Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-302) index.
- Research Call Number
- *OAC 03-1178