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 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.
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分析《國王與我》和《花鼓歌》的那兩章，思考密度大到令人讀著讀著，一股血液往上湧。最近越覺得曆史真的就在一遍遍重演，我們關心許多“當下”問題的時候，不妨退一步，多看些東西，纔能發現許多事情是共通的、並且已經被人討論過的。這樣想來倒也令人悲觀：那麼人類究竟進步瞭沒有呀？
评分美國在全球範圍內重視以教育和知識分子為手段的滲透方式其實有跡可循——美國在國內範圍內的共情活動也藉助瞭教育和知識分子的力量。為美國在全球其他地區的活動提供瞭新的思路：接近公眾不是一味的壓抑，更是一種自然輕鬆的娛樂方式引起興趣和認同，構建imagined community.
评分冷戰時美國除瞭政治上對共産主義的遏製政策，在文化上錶現為中産階級對東方的一種傷感的普世主義的文化想象。對影片《國王與我》的文本細讀堪稱典範。
评分分析《國王與我》和《花鼓歌》的那兩章，思考密度大到令人讀著讀著，一股血液往上湧。最近越覺得曆史真的就在一遍遍重演，我們關心許多“當下”問題的時候，不妨退一步，多看些東西，纔能發現許多事情是共通的、並且已經被人討論過的。這樣想來倒也令人悲觀：那麼人類究竟進步瞭沒有呀？
评分annotated bib. 不喜歡“middlebrow"這樣的用法，除此之外，感覺史料的選擇(cultural turn)還是很有趣的。
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