1. Sino-German Relation, Historiography, and Organization
Joanne Miyang Cho
Part I. Politics, Business, and Teaching in the Age of German Colonialism, 1890-1914
2. Elizabeth von Heyking: China through the Eyes of a Female Aristocrat
Ulrike Brisson
3. A “War for Peace”? German-Speaking Pacifists’ Views on the Boxer Conflict
Timothy L. Schroer
4. Investing in “German Hong Kong”: The Building of a Global Economic Presence in Qingdao, 1898-1914
Matthew A. Yokell
5. “One Has to Rely Completely on Oneself”: The Challenging Life of German Teachers at German-Chinese Schools, 1898-1914
Michael Schön
Part II. Knowledge, Pedagogy, and Medical Mission, 1910s-1945
6. Max Weber and China: Imperial Scholarship, Its Background and Findings
Jack Barbalet
7. Raising Children, Educating Citizens: Chinese Readings of the German Pedagogue Georg Kerschensteiner
Henrike Rudolph
8. The Doctor as Patient: The Case of Elisabeth Kehrer and German Medical Missionaries in China
Albert Wu
Part III. Music, Film, and Activism in the 1920s and 1930s
9. “What Exactly Is China” in Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler’s
Die Maßnahme (The Measures Taken)
John Gabriel
10. Xiao Youmei: Chinese Musical Patriot or Comprador Germanophile?
Hao Huang
11. Between Imagined Homelands: Florian Gallenberger’s John Rabe
Bruce Williams
Part IV. Diplomatic Struggles and German-speaking Jews, 1920-1950
12. Illegitimate Representatives: Manchukuo-German Relations and Diplomatic Struggles in Nazi Germany
Simon Preker
13. Psychoanalysis in Chinese Exile: A. J. Storfer and His Magazine Project Gelbe Post
Thomas Pekar
Index
Joanne Miyang Cho is a Professor at the History Department of William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA.
Adopting a transnational approach, this edited volume reveals that Germany and China have had many intense and varied encounters between 1890 and 1950. It focuses on their cross-cultural encounters, entanglements, and bi-directional cultural flows. Although their initial relationship was marked by the logic of colonialism, interwar Sino-German relations established a cooperative relationship untainted by imperialist politics several decades before the era of decolonization. A range of topics are addressed, including pacifists in Germany on the Boxer Rebellion, German investment in Qingdao, teachers at German-Chinese schools, social and pedagogical theories and practice, female literary and missionary connections, Sino-German musical entanglements, humanitarian connections during the Nanjing Massacre, Manchukuo-German diplomacy, and psychoanalysis during the Shanghai exile.
Joanne Miyang Cho is a Professor at the History Department of William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA.