ABSTRACT
This volume contributes to an emerging field of Asian German Studies by bringing together cutting-edge scholarship from international scholars working in a variety of disciplines. The chapters survey transnational encounters between Germany and East Asia since 1900. By rejecting traditional dichotomies between the East and the West or the colonizer and the colonized, these essays highlight connectedness and hybridity. They show how closely Germany and East Asia cooperated and negotiated the challenges of modernity in a range of topics, such as politics, history, literature, religion, environment, architecture, sexology, migration, and sports.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|61 pages
German missionaries and German-speaking Jews in China
chapter 1|22 pages
One family, two systems
chapter 2|17 pages
Working with disaster
part II|60 pages
Japanese images of Germany and transnational flow between Germany and East Asia
chapter 4|16 pages
A close country in the distance
chapter 5|22 pages
The Lex Adickes in its East Asian contexts
chapter 6|20 pages
A nuclear fall-out turning political
part III|47 pages
German and Austrian intellectuals/writers and East Asia
chapter 8|14 pages
“History as a poet”
part IV|43 pages
Politics and sports during the Cold War era
