Contemporary German-Chinese Cultures in Dialogue

Introduction. - Part 1. Facilitators. - 1. Individuals as Gatekeepers: The Dissemination of Chinese Films in the German-language Region from the 1970s to the Early 1990s. - 2. Forty Years of Chinese-German Cultural Projects and Diplomacy. Chen Ping in conversation with Anna Stecher. - Part 2. Creators. - 3. Digging Deep into Chinese Reality---An Interview with Li Yang About His Cinematic Trilogy. - 4. Performing Disaster and Trauma: A Cross-cultural Dialogue between Post-socialist China and Munich in the Age of Globalization. - 5. The Invisible Person: Duan Yingmei as Centerpiece of German Chinese Art. - 6. In an Ambush from All Sides. On the Conditions of Feminist Performance Art in the PRC. A Sino-German encounter with feminist performance artist Li Xinmo. - Part 3. Transmission. - 7. The Distribution and Translation of German Films in China (1949 1966). - 8. Impressions of Chinese Opera in 19th Century German Travel Notes. - 9. Cultural Symbols: A Way to Boost Cultural Dialogues between China and Germany. - Part 4. Transformation. - 10. Textual Metamorphosis Along With Poetical Re-Creation: The `Nachdichtung of Ancient Chinese Poetry in Gustav Mahler s Das Lied von der . - 11. When Kafka Rode a Paper Tiger Toward the Peach Blossom Spring. A Conversation on Contemporary Performance with Tian Gebing and Christoph Lepschy. - 12. Martin Heidegger and Daoism in Dialogue.