03642cam a2200433 i 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022010001700063020002900080020002600109020002900135020002600164035006000190050002400250100001800274245010600292246006400398260005300462300002300515490001900538504005100557505036700608520162900975650005502604650003002659650002602689650003102715650003602746650005802782650006602840651004402906651005302950651005103003830002003054942001203074952010903086999001303195on1157867942OCoLCta210203s2020    nyua     b    001 0 eng    a  2020017168  a9780231196963qhardcover  a0231196962qhardcover  a9780231196970qpaperback  a0231196970qpaperback  a(OCoLC)1157867942z(OCoLC)1152996920z(OCoLC)115301547600aDS33.4.U5bX53 20201 aXiang, Sunny.10aTonal intelligence :bthe aesthetics of Asian inscrutability during the long Cold War /cSunny Xiang.30aTemperament, temporality, and the American Cold War in Asia  aNew York : bColumbia University Press, cc2020.  axi, 353 p. :bill.1 aLiterature now  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.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.  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"-- 4aOrientalismzUnited StatesxHistoryy20th century. 4aCold WarxSecret service. 4aAsians in literature. 4aAsians in motion pictures. 4aAsian AmericansxRace identity. 4aPropaganda, American zAsia xHistory y20th century. 4aPropaganda, American zPacific Area xHistory y20th century. 4aAsiaxForeign public opinion, American. 4aPacific Area xForeign public opinion, American. 4aUnited States xForeign relations y1945-1989. 0aLiterature now.  2lcccBK  00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oDS33.4.U5 X53 2020pPNLIB21060674r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK  c860d860