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- Title
Imagining Kin: Cold War Sentimentalism and the Korean Children's Choir.
- Authors
Woo, Susie
- Abstract
The article discusses the 1954 visit of the Korean Children's Choir to the U.S., focusing on how the visit helped fit in with the relationship between the U.S. and South Korea. Other topics include the role of the choir tour as a fundraiser to support postwar recovery in South Korea, transnational adoption of Korean children by U.S. families, and how the choir impacted American sentiment for Korean children.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; CHILDREN'S choirs; SOUTH Korea-United States relations; CHILDREN; POSTWAR reconstruction; INTERNATIONAL adoption; SENTIMENTALISM; SOUTH Korean history, 1948-1960; UNITED States history -- 1953-1961; TWENTIETH century; FINANCE; HISTORY
- Publication
American Quarterly, 2015, Vol 67, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
0003-0678
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/aq.2015.0012