Imagining Germany Imagining Asia – Essays in Asian–German Studies

Introduction East-West Globality and the European Mode of Film Production Citizenship-Shifting: Race and Xing-Hu Kuo's Claim on East German Memory Narratives of Transnational Divide: The Vietnamese in Contemporary German Literature and Film Factories on the Magic Carpet: Heimat, Globalization, and the "Yellow Peril" in Die Chinesen kommen and Losers and Winners Germany's India: A Critical Re-interrogation Indians, Jews, and Sex: Magnus Hirschfeld and Indian Sexology The Ambivalence of a Spiritual Quest in India: Waldemar Bonsels's Indienfahrt Traveling through Imperialism: Representational Crisis and Resolution in Elisabeth von Heyking's and Alfons Paquet's Travel Writing on China Measuring Asian-ness: Erwin Baelz's Anthropological Expeditions in Fin-de-Siècle Korea The Tat Tvam Asi Formula and Schopenhauer's "Deductive Leap" German Indophilia, Femininity, and Transcultural Symbiosis around 1800 Reading Genji in German: Reflections on World Literature and Asian-German Studies Bibliography Notes on the Contributors Index