Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2.   V
3. Contents VII
4. 1 From the Editors 1
5. 2 在馬德拉的夜晚 – A Night in Madeira 5
6. 3 Towards a Conceptual Prehistory of “Brainwashing” / xinao 洗腦 7
7. 4 “Jadish Chicken” or “Jadish Rooster” – On the Origin of a Literary Cliché in the Colourful Bestiary of Chinese Logic 67
8. 5 Flötentöne 95
9. 6 Governing from Behind the Curtain: Empress Dowager Cixi’s Governance Style 103
10. 7 Mythological Dissent: Cases from Japan 125
11. 8 From the Islands to the Mainland: The Tension between Diaspora Identity and Nationalism in Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Novels 139
12. 9 Anarchist Vegan Vegetarianism: A Forgotten Link between Evolution and Revolution in Modern China 151
13. 10 Coming of Age in a World without Qing (情): Intertextual Connections between Ge Fei’s Landscapes Moving into Dreams and Dream of the Red Chamber 173
14. 11 Sozio-urbane Transformationen erzählen: Bild und Text im Werk von Xi Xi 189
15. 12 Asia as Question: Asian Studies in Postcolonial Globalization 207
16. 13 Not Italian Opera: Mo Yan’s Sandalwood Death and the Scourge of Western Literary Models 223
17. 14 Bio-Diversity and Local Knowledge in Monsoon Asia: The Forests and the Mekong 233
18. 15 Lo Sirong’s Album More than One as Female Ecotopia 255
19. 16 The Art of Anti-Utopia: Visual Narratives of the Chinese Dream and the Covid-19 Nightmare 271
20. 17 Embracing Shadows: The Twisted Love Stories of Lord Voldemort and Lin Daiyu in Cyberspace 297
21. 18 Li Bai in Space: Poetry and Translation in Chinese Science Fiction 335
22. 19 Detours – Chinese Reflections on Aimless Wandering 353
23. Authors