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Tonal Intelligence

The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War

By: Sunny Xiang

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Tonal Intelligence

The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War

By: Sunny Xiang

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.

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Columbia University Press

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Tonal Intelligence

The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War

By: Sunny Xiang

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The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War

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The Dragon and the Eagle

The Rise and Fall of the Chinese and Roman Empires

By: Sunny Auyang

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The Dragon and the Eagle

The Rise and Fall of the Chinese and Roman Empires

By: Sunny Auyang

This stimulating, uniquely organized, and wonderfully readable comparison of ancient Rome and China offers provocative insights to students and general readers of world history. The book's narrative is clear, completely jargon-free, strikingly independent, and addresses the complete cycles of two world empires. The topics explored include nation formation, state building, empire building, arts of government, strategies of superpowers, and decline and fall.

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Routledge

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1317516877

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9781317516873

Literature Journals in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China (1931-1938)

By: Sunny Han Han

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Literature Journals in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China (1931-1938)

By: Sunny Han Han

This book examines the development of Chinese literature journals and social ideologies from 1931 to 1938, combining first-hand historical materials, historical data and four important literature journals to study the competition and cooperation between various powers such as the Kuomintang, the CCP, the “Third Party”, and intellectuals. This book describes the most influential Chinese literature journals and their political background during that period, and explains the relations between disparate political and social powers, helping to decipher Chinese intellectuals’ cultural positions during this time. The author concludes with the provocative thesis that there was a progression in literature of the Nanjing Decade from an emphasis on class struggle to national salvation to a humanism that transcended these differences. ——Arif Dirlik, author of "Culture and History in Postrevolutionary China: The Perspective of Global Modernity" The author looks into sources drawn from various camps and areas, identifies ideological and affective contestations, debates theoretical agendas, and ponders the consequences of literature as a unique manifestation of wartime engagements. Both historically informed and methodologically engaged, Han’s book is a most important source for anyone interested in the cultural and political dynamics of modern China in an extraordinary time. ——David Der-wei Wang, Professor of Harvard University

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Springer

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Tonal Intelligence

Tonal Intelligence

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The Dragon and the Eagle

The Dragon and the Eagle

Literature Journals in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China (1931-1938)

Literature Journals in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China (1931-1938)

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