03484nam 2200649Ia 450 991045036030332120200520144314.00-520-93863-11-59875-544-710.1525/9780520938632(CKB)1000000000030792(EBL)231928(OCoLC)475938395(SSID)ssj0000277835(PQKBManifestationID)11207632(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277835(PQKBWorkID)10240777(PQKB)11387259(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055936(MiAaPQ)EBC231928(DE-B1597)519141(OCoLC)1110708980(DE-B1597)9780520938632(Au-PeEL)EBL231928(CaPaEBR)ebr10079956(OCoLC)437146304(EXLCZ)99100000000003079220041018d2005 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe China mystique[electronic resource] Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the transformation of American Orientalism /Karen J. LeongBerkeley, Calif. University of California Press20051 online resource (263 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24423-0 0-520-24422-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --1. Gendering American Orientalism --2. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck --3. Anna May Wong --4. Mayling Soong --5. Transforming American National Identity- The China Mystique --Notes --Bibliography --Acknowledgments --IndexThroughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this erudite and original study, Karen J. Leong explores the gendering of American orientalism during the 1930's and 1940's. Focusing on three women who were popularly and publicly associated with China-Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, and Mayling Soong-Leong shows how each negotiated what it meant to be American, Chinese American, and Chinese against the backdrop of changes in the United States as a national community and as an international power. The China Mystique illustrates how each of these women encountered the possibilities as well as the limitations of transnational status in attempting to shape her own opportunities. During these two decades, each woman enjoyed expanding visibility due to an increasingly global mass culture, rising nationalism in Asia, the emergence of the United States from the shadows of imperialism to world power, and the more assertive participation of women in civic and consumer culture.Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the transformation of American OrientalismInternational relationsUnited StatesRelationsChinaChinaRelationsUnited StatesElectronic books.International relations.305.48/8951073/0922Leong Karen J.1968-1053268MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450360303321The China mystique2485093UNINA