Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961

by Christina Klein

Book Overview

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520232305
• ISBN13: 9780520232303
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"