Beyond Alterity ─ German Encounters With Modern East Asia

Historians and scholars of German literature explore the German sociohistorical and aesthetic representations of China and Japan from the imperialist era to contemporary times. They cover Japan and Germany in the shadow of National Socialism; from 1920s leftist collaboration to global capitalism; negotiating identity in multicultural Germany; and trade, travel, and ethnographic narratives. Among specific topics are Japan in interwar German newsreels, collaborations between Chinese and German left-wing activists in the Weimar Republic, the Boxer Rebellion in Gerhard Seyfried's Yellow Wind (2008), Anna May Wong and Weimar cinema: orientalism in postcolonial Germany, hairnet manufacturing in Vysocina and Shandong 1890-0939 as an early globalizing home industry, and emptiness as recurring topos in recent Germany short stories on Japan. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Martin Rosenstock is Assistant Professor of German at Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and has held visiting positions at Iowa State University and the University of Connecticut. He has published on the depiction of crime and detection in literature and film as well as on German colonial literature in Monatshefte and Colloquia Germanica.