Sino-German Encounters and Entanglements

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.

Chapter 1: Sino-German Relation, Historiography, and Organization. - Chapter 2: Elizabeth von Heyking: China through the Eyes of a Female Aristocrat. - Chapter 3: A War for Peace ? German-Speaking Pacifists Views on the Boxer Conflict. - Chapter 4: Investing in German Hong Kong : The Building of a Global Economic Presence in Qingdao, 1898-1914. - Chapter 5: One Has to Rely Completely on Oneself : The Challenging Life of German Teachers at German-Chinese Schools, 1898-1914. - Chapter 6: Max Weber and China: Imperial Scholarship, Its Background and Findings. - Chapter 7: Raising Children, Educating Citizens: Chinese Readings of the German Pedagogue Georg Kerschensteiner. - Chapter 8: The Doctor as Patient: The Case of Elisabeth Kehrer and German Medical Missionaries in China. - Chapter 9: What Exactly Is China in Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler s Die Maßnahme (The Measures Taken). - Chapter 10: Xiao Youmei: Chinese Musical Patriot or Comprador Germanophile? . - Chapter 11: Between Imagined Homelands: Florian Gallenberger s John Rabe. - Chapter 12: Illegitimate Representatives: Manchukuo-German Relations and Diplomatic Struggles in Nazi Germany. - Chapter 13: Psychoanalysis in Chinese Exile: A. J. Storfer and His Magazine Project Gelbe Post.