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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:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.
Subjects:	Orientalism > United States > History > 20th century. Public opinion > United States. Asians in mass media. Cold War > Social aspects > United States. Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century. Asia > Foreign public opinion, American. United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989. United States > Relations > Asia. Asia > Relations > United States. United States > Civilization > 1945- Electronic books.
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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.