Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War
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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 "Oriental" enemies and Asian allies, contributing to the conflict's...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231196970
ISBN13:9780231196970
Release Date:December 2020
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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