LEADER 04307nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910450309803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-93625-6 010 $a1-283-42257-3 010 $a1-59734-548-2 010 $a9786613422576 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520936256 035 $a(CKB)1000000000001514 035 $a(EBL)223656 035 $a(OCoLC)614553518 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000124549 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11133427 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000124549 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10023712 035 $a(PQKB)10558013 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223656 035 $a(DE-B1597)519183 035 $a(OCoLC)52996369 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520936256 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223656 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048970 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL342257 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000001514 100 $a20020819d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCold War orientalism$b[electronic resource] $eAsia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 /$fChristina Klein 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (574 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-22469-8 311 $a0-520-23230-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-302) index. 327 $aSentimental 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. 330 $aIn the years following World War II, American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living, working, and traveling in Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile the U.S., competing with the Soviet Union for global power, extended its reach into Asia to an unprecedented degree. This book reveals that these trends-the proliferation of Orientalist culture and the expansion of U.S. power-were linked in complex and surprising ways. 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 Hammerstein's South Pacific and The King and I, James Michener's travel essays and novel Hawaii, and Eisenhower's People-to-People Program-Klein shows how U.S. policy makers, together with middlebrow artists, writers, and intellectuals, created a culture of global integration that represented the growth 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. 606 $aOrientalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States 606 $aAsians in mass media 606 $aCold War$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aAsia$xForeign public opinion, American 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zAsia 607 $aAsia$xRelations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1945- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOrientalism$xHistory 615 0$aPublic opinion 615 0$aAsians in mass media. 615 0$aCold War$xSocial aspects 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 676 $a950.4/24 700 $aKlein$b Christina$f1963-$01048481 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450309803321 996 $aCold War orientalism$92476786 997 $aUNINA