Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War - Paperback
by Sunny Xiang
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231196970ISBN-10:231196970UPC:9780231196970Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, ModernBook Topic:Asian American & Pacific Islander, 21st Century, 20th CenturySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCA1S28AP1
Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War
Why were U.S. intelligence organizations so preoccupied with demystifying East and Southeast Asia during the mid-twentieth century? Sunny Xiang offers a new way of understanding the American cold war in Asia by tracing aesthetic manifestations of "Oriental inscrutability" across a wide range of texts. She examines how cold war regimes of suspicious thinking produced an ambiguity between...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231196970ISBN-10:231196970UPC:9780231196970Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, ModernBook Topic:Asian American & Pacific Islander, 21st Century, 20th CenturySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCA1S28AP1
Sunny Xiang is assistant professor of English at Yale University.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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