China Mystique Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism

Name: China Mystique Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism
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ISBN: 9780520244238

ISBN-10: 0520244230

ISBN-13: 9780520244238

Edition: 2005

Authors: Karen J. Leong

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Throughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this erudite and original study, Karen J. Leong explores the gendering of American orientalism during the 1930s and 1940s. Focusing on three women who were popularly and publicly associated with China--Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, and Mayling Soong--Leong shows how each negotiated what it meant to be American, Chinese American, and Chinese against the backdrop of changes in the United States as a national community and as an international power. The China Mystiqueillustrates how…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations



Gendering American Orientalism



Pearl Sydenstricker Buck



Anna May Wong



Mayling Soong



Transforming American National Identity


The China Mystique


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index