{"product_id":"beyond-alterity-german-encounters-with-modern-east-asia-9781782383604","title":"Beyond Alterity: German Encounters with Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Re-Investigating a Transnational Connection: Asian German Studies in the New Millennium\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMartin Rosenstock and Qinna Shen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: JAPAN AND GERMANY IN THE SHADOW OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eBeauty and the Beast: Japan in Interwar German Newsreels\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRicky W. Law\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eReflecting Chiral Modernities: The Function of Genre in Arnold Fanck’s Transnational \u003cem\u003eBergfilm The Samurai’s Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e (1936–37)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eValerie Weinstein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003ePrussians of the East: the 1944 \u003cem\u003eDeutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft’s\u003c\/em\u003e Essay Contest and the Transcultural Romantic\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSarah Panzer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: FROM 1920s LEFTIST COLLABORATION TO GLOBAL CAPITALISM\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eOtherness in Solidarity: Collaboration between Chinese and German Left-Wing Activists in the Weimar Republic\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWeijia Li\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eA Question of Ideology and Realpolitik: DEFA’s Cold War Documentaries on China\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eQinna Shen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eChina Past, China Present: The Boxer Rebellion in Gerhard Seyfried’s \u003cem\u003eYellow Wind\u003c\/em\u003e (2008)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMartin Rosenstock\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: NEGOTIATING IDENTITY IN MULTICULTURAL GERMANY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eAnna May Wong and Weimar Cinema: Orientalism in Postcolonial Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCynthia Walk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eRewriting the Face, Transforming the Skin, and Performing the Body as Text: Palimpsestuous Intertexts in Yōko Tawada’s “\u003cem\u003eThe Bath\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarkus Hallensleben\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eLove, Pain, and the Whole Japan Thing: Dancing MA in Doris Dörrie’s Film \u003cem\u003eCherry Blossoms\/Hanami\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eErika M. Nelson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: TRADE, TRAVEL, AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eHairnet Manufacturing in Vysočina and Shandong 1890–1939: An Early Globalizing Home Industry\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChinyun Lee and Lucie Olivová\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eOrbiting Around the Void: Emptiness as Recurring Topos in Recent German Short Stories on Japan\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGabriele Eichmanns\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12. \u003c\/strong\u003eDiscovering Asia in the Footsteps of Portuguese Explorers: East Asia in the Work of Hugo Loetscher\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJeroen Dewulf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042215100759,"sku":"9781782383604","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782383604.jpg?v=1750953478","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-alterity-german-encounters-with-modern-east-asia-9781782383604","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}