The Asian mystique : dragon ladies, geisha girls, & our fantasies of the exotic Orient / Sheridan Prasso.
Prasso, Sheridan.
2005
HQ1726 .P73 2005 (Mapit)
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Title The Asian mystique : dragon ladies, geisha girls, & our fantasies of the exotic Orient / Sheridan Prasso.
Author Prasso, Sheridan.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 1586482149
Publication Details New York : Public Affairs, c2005.
Language English
Description xvii, 437 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Call Number HQ1726 .P73 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.48/895
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-418) and index.
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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.

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