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Captivating Hearts and Minds: The Attempted Americanization of Asian Cultures, 1945--1970.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Captivating Hearts and Minds: The Attempted Americanization of Asian Cultures, 1945--1970./
Author:	Findlay, Robert A.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	219 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-04A(E).
Subject:	Modern history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10295878
ISBN:	9781369390735

Captivating Hearts and Minds: The Attempted Americanization of Asian Cultures, 1945--1970.
Findlay, Robert A.

Captivating Hearts and Minds: The Attempted Americanization of Asian Cultures, 1945--1970. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 219 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2016.

This dissertation investigates the interaction between Asian societies and the United States Information Agency (USIA), the official propaganda apparatus of the United States, during the "cultural Cold War," in which the United States, China, and the Soviet Union attempted to use culture---books, films, festivals, language, television, the popular press---as propaganda to attain foreign policy goals. While the political, military, and economic histories of the Cold War era have been well researched and debated, the cultural dimensions of the Cold War, particularly in East and Southeast Asia, have been largely ignored. Culture, however, mattered, and understanding US and Asian interactions and exchanges within a larger transnational history of a liberalizing postwar Asia reveals the critical role cultural values and products played in shaping individual Asian citizens' ideas about themselves, their society, and America's foreign policies during the Cold War era.

ISBN: 9781369390735Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122829
Modern history.

Captivating Hearts and Minds: The Attempted Americanization of Asian Cultures, 1945--1970.
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