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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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.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Re-Investigating a Transnational Connection: Asian German Studies in the New Millennium Martin Rosenstock and Qinna Shen PART I: JAPAN AND GERMANY IN THE SHADOW OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM Chapter 1. Beauty and the Beast: Japan in Interwar German Newsreels Ricky W. Law Chapter 2. Reflecting Chiral Modernities: The Function of Genre in Arnold Fanck’s Transnational Bergfilm The Samurai’s Daughter (1936–37) Valerie Weinstein Chapter 3. Prussians of the East: the 1944 Deutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft’s Essay Contest and the Transcultural Romantic Sarah Panzer 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 Weijia Li Chapter 5. A Question of Ideology and Realpolitik: DEFA’s Cold War Documentaries on China Qinna Shen Chapter 6. China Past, China Present: The Boxer Rebellion in Gerhard Seyfried’s Yellow Wind (2008) Martin Rosenstock PART III: NEGOTIATING IDENTITY IN MULTICULTURAL GERMANY Chapter 7. Anna May Wong and Weimar Cinema: Orientalism in Postcolonial Germany Cynthia Walk Chapter 8. Rewriting the Face, Transforming the Skin, and Performing the Body as Text: Palimpsestuous Intertexts in Yōko Tawada’s “The Bath” Markus Hallensleben Chapter 9. Love, Pain, and the Whole Japan Thing: Dancing MA in Doris Dörrie’s Film Cherry Blossoms/Hanami Erika M. Nelson PART IV: TRADE, TRAVEL, AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES Chapter 10. Hairnet Manufacturing in Vysočina and Shandong 1890–1939: An Early Globalizing Home Industry Chinyun Lee and Lucie Olivová Chapter 11. Orbiting Around the Void: Emptiness as Recurring Topos in Recent German Short Stories on Japan Gabriele Eichmanns Chapter 12. Discovering Asia in the Footsteps of Portuguese Explorers: East Asia in the Work of Hugo Loetscher Jeroen Dewulf Bibliography Index
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ISBN
9781782383604
Publisert
2014-07-01
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Berghahn Books
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544 gr
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229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Product format
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316

Biographical note

Qinna Shen is Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Miami University in Ohio. She received her Ph.D. in German Literature from Yale in 2008 and then went on to teach at Miami University from 2008 to 2011. Between 2011 and 2014, she held a visiting position at Loyola University Maryland. Her research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German film and literature, folklore, and the recently established field of Asian German Studies. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Her book, entitled The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films, is forthcoming with Wayne State University Press.