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| Title: | The Asian mystique : dragon ladies, geisha girls, & our fantasies of the exotic Orient / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sheridan Prasso |
| ISBN: | 1586482149; 9781586482145 |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-418) and index. Content: Part 1. The Asian mystique. Mystery, sex, fear, and desire: a brief history -- Hollywood, Burbank, and the resulting imaginings -- Matters of men and country: the unbearable lightness of being portrayed -- "Race-sim," fetish, and fever -- Part 2. Ten people, ten colors. The real memoirs of geisha -- The other side of Miss Saigon -- Glamour of the skies, sorority of service -- Screwing, getting screwed, and getting ahead -- Who's playing whom -- China doll, dragon lady -- Power women -- Epilogue: Demand creates supply. |
| Description: | xvii, 437 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Part 1. The Asian mystique. Mystery, sex, fear, and desire: a brief history -- Hollywood, Burbank, and the resulting imaginings -- Matters of men and country: the unbearable lightness of being portrayed -- "Race-sim," fetish, and fever -- Part 2. Ten people, ten colors. The real memoirs of geisha -- The other side of Miss Saigon -- Glamour of the skies, sorority of service -- Screwing, getting screwed, and getting ahead -- Who's playing whom -- China doll, dragon lady -- Power women -- Epilogue: Demand creates supply. |
| Responsibility: | Sheridan Prasso. |
| Year: | c2005. |
| Publisher: | New York : Public Affairs, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2005043048 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HQ1726; Dewey No.: 305.48/895 |
| More information: | Table of contents |
| OCLC No.: | 57652235 |
Abstract:
Uses interviews, media, reportage, and secondary sources to explore the historical and pop cultural roots of Western images of Asian women.
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