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Intro -- 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 Capitalism -- Chapter 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 Loetscher -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.

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 national paradigms in cultural studies. Essays focus on the mid-century German-Japanese alliance, Chinese-German Leftist collaborations, global capitalism, travel, identity, and cultural hybridity. The authors include historians and scholars of film and literature, and employ a wide array of approaches from postcolonial, globalization, media, and gender studies. The collection sheds new light on a complex and ambivalentset of international relationships, while also testifying to the potential of Asian German Studies.