Cold War Orientalism Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961

Name: Cold War Orientalism Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961
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ISBN: 9780520232303

ISBN-10: 0520232305

ISBN-13: 9780520232303

Edition: 2003

Authors: Christina Klein

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In the years following World War II, American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living, working, and traveling in Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile the U.S., competing with the Soviet Union for global power, extended its reach into Asia to an unprecedented degree. This book reveals that these trends--the proliferation of Orientalist culture and the expansion of U.S. power--were linked in complex and surprising ways. While most cultural historians of the Cold War have focused on the culture of containment, Christina Klein reads the postwar period as one of international economic and political integration--a distinct chapter in the process of…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/10/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments Introduction



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


Conclusion


Notes


Index