Beyond alterity : German encounters with modern East Asia / / edited by Qinna Shen and Martin Rosenstock ; contributors Jeroen Dewulf [and twelve others]

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/24305
• Soggetto topico: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Relations Japan; Japan Relations Germany; Germany Relations China; China Relations Germany; Germany Intellectual life 20th century
• Soggetto non controllato: Cultural Studies (General), History: 20th Century to Present
• Persona (resp. second.): ShenQinna; RosenstockMartin; DewulfJeroen
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond alterity
• ISBN: 1-78238-361-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820647303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association