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About this book
With the economic and political rise of East Asia in the second half of the twentieth century, many Western countries have re-evaluated their links to their Eastern counterparts. Thus, in recent years, Asian German Studies has emerged as a promising branch within interdisciplinary German Studies. This collection of essays examines German-language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist notions by proposing a conception of East and West not as opposites, but as complementary elements of global culture, thereby urging a move beyond national paradigms in cultural studies. Essays focus on the mid-century German-Japanese alliance, Chinese-German Leftist collaborations, global capitalism, travel, identity, and cultural hybridity. The authors include historians and scholars of film and literature, and employ a wide array of approaches from postcolonial, globalization, media, and gender studies. The collection sheds new light on a complex and ambivalentset of international relationships, while also testifying to the potential of Asian German Studies.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction — Re-investigating a Transnational Connection: Asian German Studies in the New Millennium
- Part I — Japan and Germany in the Shadow of National Socialism
- Chapter 1 — Beauty and the Beast: Japan in Interwar German Newsreels
- Chapter 2 — Reflecting Chiral Modernities: The Function of Genre in Arnold Fanck's Transnational Bergfilm, The Samurai's Daughter (1936–37)
- Chapter 3 — Prussians of the East: The 1944 Deutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft's Essay Contest and the Transcultural Romantic
- Part II — From 1920s Leftist Collaboration to Global Capitalism
- Chapter 4 — Otherness in Solidarity: Collaboration between Chinese and German Left-Wing Activists in the Weimar Republic
- Chapter 5 — A Question of Ideology and Realpolitik: DEFA's Cold War Documentaries on China
- Chapter 6 — China Past, China Present: The Boxer Rebellion in Gerhard Seyfried's Yellow Wind (2008)
- Part III — Negotiating Identity in Multicultural Germany
- Chapter 7 — Anna May Wong and Weimar Cinema: Orientalism in Postcolonial Germany
- Chapter 8 — Rewriting the Face, Transforming the Skin, and Performing the Body as Text: Palimpsestuous Intertexts in Yöko Tawada's "The Bath"
- Chapter 9 — Love, Pain, and the Whole Japan Thing: Dancing MA in Doris Dörrie's Film Cherry Blossoms/Hanami
- Part IV — Trade, Travel, and Ethnographical Narratives
- Chapter 10 — Hairnet Manufacturing in Vysocina and Shandong 1890–1939: An Early Globalizing Home Industry
- Chapter 11 — Oribiting around the Void: Emptiness as Recurring Topos in Recent German Short Stories on Japan
- Chapter 12 — Discovering Asia in the Footsteps of Portuguese Explorers: East Asia in the Work of Hugo Loetscher
- Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index