Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Contemporary Challenges to German Borders and Identities
6. 1: East-West Globality and the European Mode of Film Production 17
7. 2: Citizenship-Shifting: Race and Xing-Hu Kuo’s Claim on East German Memory 34
8. 3: Narratives of Transnational Divide: The Vietnamese in Contemporary German Literature and Film 50
9. 4: Factories on the Magic Carpet: Heimat, Globalization, and the “Yellow Peril” in Die Chinesen kommen and Losers and Winners 64
10. Part II: Travel and Representation
11. 5: Germany’s India: A Critical Re-interrogation 89
12. 6: Indians, Jews, and Sex: Magnus Hirschfeld and Indian Sexology 111
13. 7: The Ambivalence of a Spiritual Quest in India: Waldemar Bonsels’s Indienfahrt 131
14. 8: Traveling through Imperialism: Representational Crisis and Resolution in Elisabeth von Heyking’s and Alfons Paquet’s Travel Writing on China 155
15. 9: Measuring Asian-ness: Erwin Baelz’s Anthropological Expeditions in Fin-de-Siècle Korea 173
16. Part III: Asia Inhabits Germany’s Cultural and Intellectual History
17. 10: The Tat Tvam Asi Formula and Schopenhauer’s “Deductive Leap” 189
18. 11: German Indophilia, Femininity, and Transcultural Symbiosis around 1800 204
19. 12: Reading Genji in German: Reflections on World Literature and Asian-German Studies 220
20. Bibliography 243
21. Notes on the Contributors 267
22. Index 271