04547nam 2200721 450 991082064730332120200520144314.01-78238-361-110.1515/9781782383611(CKB)3710000000128734(EBL)1420455(OCoLC)883852829(SSID)ssj0001226138(PQKBManifestationID)12458954(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001226138(PQKBWorkID)11270047(PQKB)10778229(MiAaPQ)EBC1420455(Au-PeEL)EBL1420455(CaPaEBR)ebr10883307(CaONFJC)MIL623542(DE-B1597)637213(DE-B1597)9781782383611(EXLCZ)99371000000012873420140626h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeyond alterity German encounters with modern East Asia /edited by Qinna Shen and Martin Rosenstock ; contributors Jeroen Dewulf [and twelve others]New York :Berghahn,2014.©20141 online resource (316 p.)Spektrum ;Volume 7Description based upon print version of record.1-78238-360-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 RomanticPart 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 Cinema: Orientalism in Postcolonial GermanyChapter 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 JapanChapter 12 - Discovering Asia in the Footsteps of Portuguese Explorers: East Asia in the Work of Hugo LoetscherContributors; Bibliography; Index 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 nationaSpektrum: Publications of the German Studies AssociationSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media StudiesbisacshGermanyRelationsJapanJapanRelationsGermanyGermanyRelationsChinaChinaRelationsGermanyGermanyIntellectual life20th centuryCultural Studies (General), History: 20th Century to Present.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.303.48/24305Shen QinnaRosenstock MartinDewulf JeroenMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820647303321Beyond alterity3960640UNINA