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020			_a9780231196963 _qhardcover
020			_a0231196962 _qhardcover
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020			_a0231196970 _qpaperback
035			_a(OCoLC)1157867942 _z(OCoLC)1152996920 _z(OCoLC)1153015476
050	0	0	_aDS33.4.U5 _bX53 2020
100	1		_aXiang, Sunny.
245	1	0	_aTonal intelligence : _bthe aesthetics of Asian inscrutability during the long Cold War / _cSunny Xiang.
246	3	0	_aTemperament, temporality, and the American Cold War in Asia
260			_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _cc2020.
300			_axi, 353 p. : _bill.
490	1		_aLiterature now
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Hardly war, partly history -- The tone of intelligence : unconventional warfare and its archives -- The tone of the rumors : something in the air -- The tone of the times : a surpassing hurry -- The tone of documentation : the brainwashee's drone -- The tone of intimacy : among the fish -- Coda: The tone of commons : solidarities without a solid.
520			_a"In postwar America, different expressions of the "Inscrutable Oriental" have produced and challenged ideas about how we perceive, process, and make claims about race during periods of dramatic change and historical unpredictability. In Neutral Tones, Sunny Xiang examines two different modes of Asian and Asian-American self-representation. The first, produced during the height of the Cold War were US-sponsored projects that furthered U.S. strategic and ideological goals in Japan, Korea, China, and Vietnam. In addition to helping to reinforce Washington's goal of communist containment, they also reinforced liberal notions of racial assimilation and integration. Examining such case studies as Hirohito's transformation into a democratic human emperor, the testimonies of South Korean women, and the autobiography of a Korean POW, Xiang considers how these examples became sources of intelligence and certainty. While the earlier texts come from the records of the US foreign policy, the later come from literary and artistic works from the 1970s to the 2000s by figures such as Ha Jin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Viet Thanh Nguyen. These works, Xiang argues, critique and subvert earlier forms of self-expression and challenges and neutralizes standard markers and personas of race. In the place of compulsory forms of racial self-expression sponsored by mid-century US cold war liberalism, this new formulation of racial identity gave expression to an emergent economic regime that valorizes flexible persons - a regime increasingly associated with the rise of the Pacific Rim as an economic power"--
650		4	_aOrientalism _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aCold War _xSecret service.
650		4	_aAsians in literature.
650		4	_aAsians in motion pictures.
650		4	_aAsian Americans _xRace identity.
650		4	_aPropaganda, American _zAsia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aPropaganda, American _zPacific Area _xHistory _y20th century.
651		4	_aAsia _xForeign public opinion, American.
651		4	_aPacific Area _xForeign public opinion, American.
651		4	_aUnited States _xForeign relations _y1945-1989.
830		0	_aLiterature now.
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