Beyond alterity : German encounters with modern East Asia /: German encounters with modern East Asia. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Qinna Shen and Martin Rosenstock.
• Editors: Shen, Qinna; Rosenstock, Martin
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 303.4824305; Germany -- Relations -- Japan; Japan -- Relations -- Germany; Germany -- Relations -- China; China -- Relations -- Germany; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Japan -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; China -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782383611
• Related ISBNs: 9781782383604
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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