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

This study reads the postwar period as one of international economic and political integration - a distinct chapter in the process of US-led globalization. It shows how US policy makers and intellectuals, created a global culture of integration that represented the growth of US power in Asia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klein, Christina, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.