Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (842 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520232305 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the Inside Flap"Christina Klein takes a fresh, stimulating, and enlightening look at the complex visions of Asia dreamed over the decades by American popular culture. global expansion.’"Akira Iriye, Professor of History, Harvard University, and author, Global Community. She argues her provocative viewpoints with the verve and flair of a showman, in a book which helps us to see the whole world through new eyes."David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly and Flower Drum Song (2002
This book reveals that these trends—the proliferation of Orientalist culture and the expansion of U.S. power in Asia as the forging of emotionally satisfying bonds between Americans and Asians. Her book enlarges Edward Said's notion of Orientalism in order to bring to light a cultural narrative about both domestic and international integration that still resonates today.. While most cultural historians of the Cold War have focused on the culture of containment, Christina Klein reads the postwar period as one of international economic and political integration—a distinct chapter in the process of U.S.-led globalization.Through her analysis of a wide range of texts and cultural phenomena—including Rodgers and Hammerste
Key To Understanding the Baby Boomer Generation This book is a knock up the side of the head! Now I understand the disconnect between what I was brought up to believe about the United States and the non-western world, and what is happening now e.g. US policy is really that of Britain before 19Key To Understanding the Baby Boomer Generation M. Lucey Bowen This book is a knock up the side of the head! Now I understand the disconnect between what I was brought up to believe about the United States and the non-western world, and what is happening now e.g. US policy is really that of Britain before 1942!M. 2!M. Crazy about horses said Brilliant & original analysis. Whenever I see appeals to financially sponsor or otherwise aid unfortunate children abroad, e.g. to surgically repair cleft palates, and when there are references to the movies/musicals _South Pacific_ and _The King and I_, I'm reminded of the origin