Beyond Alterity : : German Encounters with Modern East Asia / / ed. by Martin Rosenstock, Qinna Shen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Dewulf, Jeroen,; Eichmanns, Gabriele,; Hallensleben, Markus,; Law, Ricky W.,; Lee, Chinyun,; Li, Weijia,; Nelson, Erika M.,; Olivová, Lucie,; Panzer, Sarah,; Rosenstock, Martin,; Shen, Qinna,; Walk, Cynthia,; Weinstein, Valerie,
• HerausgeberIn: Rosenstock, Martin,; Shen, Qinna,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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: Th e 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 Yōko 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 Vysočina and Shandong 1890–1939: An Early Globalizing Home Industry -- Chapter 11. Orbiting 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 -- Notes on Contributors -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX