Beyond Alterity : : German Encounters with Modern East Asia /

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

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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. Th...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
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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

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