Cold War orientalism : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / Christina Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Christina, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relations.

Orientalism.

History.

Asia--Foreign public opinion, American.

Asia.

Orientalism--United States--History--20th century.

Public opinion--United States.

Public opinion.

United States.

Asians in mass media.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

International relations.

United States--Relations--Asia.

Asia--Relations--United States.

Cold War--Social aspects--United States.

Cold War.

Social aspects.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

United States--Civilization--1945-.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xiv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.

Summary:

Shows how popular stories and images about Asia and the Pacific--such as The King and I, James A Michener's Hawaii--were used in the late 1940s and 1950s to justify the expansion of US political, military, and economic power into Asia during the Cold War.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-302) index.

ISBN:

0520224698

0520232305

OCLC:

50554805