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Beyond alterity : German encounters with modern East Asia / / edited by Qinna Shen and Martin Rosenstock ; contributors Jeroen Dewulf [and twelve others] |
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New York : , : Berghahn, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Electronic books. |
Germany Relations Japan |
Japan Relations Germany |
Germany Relations China |
China Relations Germany |
Germany Intellectual life 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 CapitalismChapter 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: The Boxer Rebellion in Gerhard Seyfried's Yellow Wind (2008); Part III - Negotiating Identity in Multicultural Germany; Chapter 7 - Anna May Wong and Weimar |
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Cinema: Orientalism in Postcolonial Germany |
Chapter 8 - Rewriting the Face, Transforming the Skin, and Performing the Body as Text: Palimpsestuous Intertexts in Yöko 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 Vysocina and Shandong 1890-1939: An Early Globalizing Home Industry; Chapter 11 - Oribiting 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 LoetscherContributors; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. 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 nationa |
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