Gendered encounters between Germany and Asia. Transnational perspectives since 1800. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joanne Miyang Cho; Douglas T. McGetchin.
• Other Names: Cho, Joanne Miyang; McGetchin, Douglas T
• Contents: 1. The Colossal and Grotesque: The Aesthetics of German Orientalism in Kant and Hegel Nick Germana.- .2. Goethe and Günderrode: German Poetic Readings of Indian Fatalism Dorothy Figueira.-.3. 'Rescuing' and Raising Basket Babies: Chinese Foundling Girls, Female Infantcide and German Missionary Gender Role Contestation (1850s – 1914) Julia Stone.-.4. Picturing Labor: Gender, German Ethnography and Anti-Colonial Reforms in the Philippines Marissa Petrou.-.5. From Submission to Subversion? The Aidaoyuan Boarding School for Chinese Girls in Qingdao, 1904-1914 Lydia Gerber.-.6. Indo-German Contact through the lens of Gender: Three cases of Anti-imperialist Miscegenatioan: Dr. Zahir Husein, Virendrenath 'Chatto' Chattopadhyaya, and S. C. Bose Douglas T. McGetchin.-.7. The Liberating Masculinity of Goethe's Werther and Its Repercussion in Modern China Arnhilt Johanna Hoefle.-.8. German-Jewish Women in Wartime Shanghai and Their Encounters with the Chinese Joanne Miyang Cho.-.9. The Gendered Migration Experience: South Korean Nurses in West Germany' Suin Roberts.-.10. Sakuntala in the GDR: Gender Dynamics in Vijaya Mehta's Leipzig Production of Kalidasa's Play Joerg Esleben.-.11. Woman as an East-West Constant: Patriarchal Continuities in Works by Mori Ōgai and Yōko Tawada Lee M. Roberts.-.12. Victims of Traffic in Women, Marriage Migrants and Community Formation: A History of Migration of Thai Women to Germany Pataya Ruenkaew.-.13. From Contract Workers to Entrepreneurs: Gender and Work among Transnational Vietnamese in East and Reunited Germany Gertrud Hüwelmeier.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (309 pages)
• Subjects: 950; HISTORY / Asia / General; History; Social history; Sociology; Sex (Psychology); Gender expression; Gender identity; Gender expression; Gender identity; History; Sex (Psychology); Social history; Sociology; Asia -- History; Europe, Central -- History; Asia; Europe, Central; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319404394; 3319404393
• Related ISBNs: 9783319404387; 3319404385
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.