Cold War orientalism : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / by Klein, Christina, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…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.…”

Cold War orientalism : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / by Klein, Christina, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…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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Cold War orientalism : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / by Klein, Christina, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…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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The melancholy of race / by Cheng, Anne Anlin

Table of Contents: “…Beauty and Ideal Citizenship: Inventing Asian America in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (1961) -- A Fable of Exquisite Corpses: Maxine Hong Kingston, Assimilation, and the Hypochondriacal Response -- Fantasy's Repulsion and Investment: David Henry Hwang and Ralph Ellison -- History in/against the Fragment: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha -- Difficult Loves: Anna Deavere Smith and the Politics of Grief.…”
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You Don't Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story /

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Oriental, Black, and White: the formation of racial habits in american theater./ by Lee, Josephine

Table of Contents: “…Oriental, black, and white -- The racial refashioning of "Aladdin" -- The lesser roles of Ira Aldridge -- Blackface minstrelsy's Japanese turns -- The tricky servant in blackface and yellowface -- The Chinese laundry sketch -- "Maybe now and then a Chinaman": African American impersonators and Chinese specialties -- Divas and dancers: oriental femininity and African American performance -- Oriental frolics and racial uplift in the early African American musical -- Pleasure domes and journeys home: "In Dahomey," "Abyssinia," "The Children of the Sun," and "Shuffle Along" -- Fantasy islands: staging the Philippines, 1900-1914 -- Racial puzzles, chop suey, and Juanita Long Hall in "Flower Drum Song.".…”
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