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Tonal intelligence the aesthetics of Asian inscrutability during the long Cold War / Sunny Xiang   Author:  Xiang, Sunny author Title:  Tonal intelligence the aesthetics of Asian inscrutability during the long Cold War / Sunny Xiang Publisher:  New York Columbia University Press [2020] Copyright:  ©2020 Description:  1 online resource (xi, 353 pages) illustrations Electronic Resource:  https://smithsonian.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/smithsonian/detail.action?docID=6181765 Series:  Literature Now Bio. / Hist. Note:  Sunny Xiang is assistant professor of English at Yale University Notes:  Print version record Summary:  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 status as both a 'real war' and a 'long peace.' Xiang puts interrogation reports, policy memos, and field notes into conversation with novels, poems, documentaries, and mixed media work by artists such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ha Jin, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. She engages her archive through a reading practice centered on tone, juxtaposing Asian diasporans who appear similar in profile yet who differ in tone. Tonal Intelligence considers how the meaning of race, war, and empire came under pressure during two interlinked periods of geopolitical transition: American 'nation-building' in East and Southeast Asia during the mid-twentieth century and Asian economic modernization during the late twentieth century. By reading both state records and aesthetic texts from these periods for their tone rather than their content, Xiang shows how bygone threats of Asian communism and emergent regimes of Asian capitalism have elicited distinct yet related anxieties about racial intelligibility. Featuring bold methods, unlikely archives, and acute close readings, Tonal Intelligence rethinks the marking and making of race during the long cold war.-- Bibliography Note:  Includes bibliographical references and index Contents:  Introduction: 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 Language:  In English Restrictions:  1-user Local Note:  The book was purchased through the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Elecresource Subject:  Orientalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century Cold War -- Secret service Asians in literature. Asians in motion pictures. Asian Americans -- Race identity Propaganda, American -- Asia -- History -- 20th century Propaganda, American -- Pacific Area -- History -- 20th century Orientalisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Guerre froide -- Service secret Asiatiques dans la littérature Asiatiques au cinéma Américains d'origine asiatique -- Identité ethnique Propagande américaine -- Asie -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Propagande américaine -- Pacifique, Région du -- Histoire -- 20e siècle LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American Asian Americans -- Race identity Asians in literature Asians in motion pictures Diplomatic relations Orientalism Propaganda, American Public opinion, American Asia -- Foreign public opinion, American Pacific Area -- Foreign public opinion, American United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- 1945-1989 Asia Pacific Area United States Genre:  History Uniform Title:  ProQuest eBooks. Added Title:  Aesthetics of Asian inscrutability during the long Cold War Added Series:  Literature Now. ISBN:  9780231551915 0231551916 Copy/Holding information Call No. Collection Barcode Status   DS33.4.U6 X53 2020 (Internet) Electronic Resources mq2119711 Cataloged Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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