Cold War orientalism: Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 0520224698, 0520232305, 9780520224698, 9780520232303

Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration ; Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the midd

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English Pages xiv, 316 s. : illustrations Year 2003

Cold War orientalism: Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961
0520224698, 0520232305, 9780520224698, 9780520232303

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Christina

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

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