Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

 

1. Sentimental Education: Creating a Global Imaginary of Integration

2. Reader's Digest, Saturday Review, and the Middlebrow Aesthetic of Commitment

3. How to Be an American Abroad: James Michener's The Voice of Asia and Postwar Mass Tourism

4. Family Ties as Political Obligation: Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the Discourse of Adoption

5. Musicals and Modernization: The King and I

6. Asians in America: Flower Drum Song and Hawaii

 

Conclusion

Notes

Index