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050	0	0	_aE183.8.C5 _bL386 2005
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100	1		_aLeong, Karen J., _d1968-
245	1	4	_aThe China mystique : _bPearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the transformation of American Orientalism / _cKaren J. Leong.
246	3	0	_aPearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the transformation of American Orientalism
260			_aBerkeley, Calif. : _bUniversity of California Press, _cc2005.
300			_ax, 236 p., [14] p. of plates : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-220) and index.
505	0		_a1. Gendering American Orientalism -- 2. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck -- 3. Anna May Wong -- 4. Mayling Soong -- 5. Transforming American National Identity - The China Mystique.
520			_aPublisher description: Throughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this erudite and original study, Karen J. Leong explores the gendering of American orientalism during the 1930s and 1940s. Focusing on three women who were popularly and publicly associated with China--Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, and Mayling Soong--Leong shows how each negotiated what it meant to be American, Chinese American, and Chinese against the backdrop of changes in the United States as a national community and as an international power. The China Mystique illustrates how each of these women encountered the possibilities as well as the limitations of transnational status in attempting to shape her own opportunities. During these two decades, each woman enjoyed expanding visibility due to an increasingly global mass culture, rising nationalism in Asia, the emergence of the United States from the shadows of imperialism to world power, and the more assertive participation of women in civic and consumer culture.
651		0	_aUnited States _xRelations _zChina.
651		0	_aChina _xRelations _zUnited States.
600	1	0	_aBuck, Pearl S. _q(Pearl Sydenstricker), _d1892-1973.
600	1	0	_aWong, Anna May, _d1905-1961.
600	1	0	_aChiang, May-ling Soong, _d1897-
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