Table of 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

About the Author

Christina Klein is Associate Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.