Transnational Encounters Between Germany and Japan: Perceptions of Partnership in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

ISBN-13: 9781349579440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 280 str.

Joanne Miyang Cho;Lee Roberts;Christian W. Spang

Opis

This volume brings together an international group of scholars in German-Asian Studies in a survey of German-Japanese relations from 1860 to 2000. By rejecting traditional dichotomies between East and West, it highlights the intimate ways in which Germans and Japanese have cooperated and negotiated the challenges of modernity.

Recenzje

"This volume surveys key moments in Japanese-German relations from the midnineteenth to the late twentieth century with richly informed materials from a variety of perspectives. ... reviewer highly recommends this book to students and scholars interested in emerging fields of transnational studies and Asian German studies. The volume ... prepares a readership for more specialized studies that may eventually develop compelling methodologies and concepts for the booming field of global history based on the archive of Asian German Studies." (Chunjie Zhang, Monatshefte, Vol. 109 (3), 2017)

"Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan: Perceptions of Partnership in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is an anthology of scholarly essays by diverse authors discussing intersections and common themes between German and Japanese cultures over the past one hundred and fifty years. ... An index enhances this erudite, meticulously researched and presented compilation, highly recommended especially for college library World History or International Studies collections." (Mid West Book Review Library Bookwatch, midwestbookreview.com, February, 2016)

Spis treści

Introduction: Joanne Miyang Cho, Lee M. Roberts, and Christian W. Spang

Part I.  Ambivalent Partners in Modernization

1.    The Myth of the “Familiar Germany”: German-Japanese Relationships in the Meiji Period Reexamined

Toru Takenaka 

2.    Karl von Eisendecher and Japan: Transnational Encounters and the Diplomacy of Imperialism

Sven Saaler

3.    Count Hermann Keyserling’s View of Japan: A Nation of Consummate Imitators

Joanne Miyang Cho 

4.    Western Criticism of an Occidental East: A German View of the Modernization of Japanese Literature, 1900-1945

Lee M. Roberts

Part II.  Transnational Partners between Two World Wars

5.    When Jiu-jitsu was German: Japanese Martial Arts in German Sport- and Körperkultur, 1905-1933

Sarah Panzer

6.    Anna and Siegfried Berliner: Two Academic Bridge Builders between Germany and Japan

Hans K. Rode† and Christian W. Spang

7.    The Expansion of Activities of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) during the Nazi Era

Christian W. Spang

8.    Japanese Ambivalence towards Jewish Exiles in Japan

Thomas Pekar

Part III.  Post-World War II Affinity: Pariah Nations?

9.    The Nuremberg and Tokyo IMT Trials: A Comparative Analysis

David M. Crowe

10. A “Penologic Program” for Japanese and German War Criminals, 1945-1958

Franziska Seraphim

11. German-Japanese Relations after the Second World War

Rolf-Harald Wippich

12. Peace, Business, and Classical Culture: The Relationship Between the German Democratic Republic and Japan

Volker Stanzel

13. Transnational Communicability: German-Japanese Literature by Yoko Tawada

Birgit Maier-Katkin and Lee M. Roberts

O autorze

Joanne Miyang Cho is Professor and Chair of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA. She is the co-editor of Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India (2013) and Germany and China: Transnational Encounters since the Eighteenth Century (2014). She is also the co-editor of Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies. Her research focus is Asian German studies and she is currently working on German-Korean relations and German-Asian gender relations.

Lee M. Roberts is Associate Professor of German Language and Literature at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, USA. He specializes in Asian-German cultural relations. Representative publications include Germany and the Imagined East (2005; 2009) and Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik (2010). He is co-editor of Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies.

Christian W. Spang is Associate Professor of German Studies at Dait? Bunka University, Tokyo, Japan. His research deals with German-Japanese relations in the 19th and 20th century. He authored Karl Haushofer und Japan (2013) and co-edited Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945 (2006) and Heinz Altschul: 'As I Record These Memories . . .' (2014). A co-authored history of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) is forthcoming in German.

Blurb

Showcasing moments of convergence between the German and Japanese cultures towards common points of interest over the last one hundred fifty years, the chapters in this book cover such topics as culture, diplomacy, geography, history, law, literature, philosophy, politics, and sports. From the creation of two similar modern nation-states, to the aggressive struggle for national supremacy and subsequent total defeat in 1945, the necessity of coping with their earlier militarism and parallel economic miracles in the postwar era, Germans and Japanese look back on a remarkably similar past.