Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-302) index.
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.
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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.
JSTOR
22573/cttt39wq
Cold War orientalism.
0520232305
Asians in mass media.
Cold War-- Social aspects-- United States.
Orientalism-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century.