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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Beyond Alterity
• Author: Qinna Shen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 316
• EAN: 9781782383604
• ISBN: 1782383603
• ID: 04845314
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 544 g
• Dimensions: 160 × 231 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2014

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