10.7

Musicals and Asian Immigration

Readings

  • Robert G. Lee, Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999), 145-161, 172-179.
  • Flower Drum Song fact sheet on Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, on American Musical Theater History.
  • John Kuo Wei Tchen, “Flower Drum Song: The Reviews Are In; Critics Clueless about Emergent American Sensibility,” AsianWeek, Dec. 13-Dec. 19, 2002.

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