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Title Transnational Encounters Between Germany and Japan: Perceptions of Partnership in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan Dec. 2015 Secaucus : Springer [distributor]

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Series Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies
Palgrave series in Asian German studies.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction German-Japanese Relations from Meiji to Heisei: A Case Study of Entangled History; Part I Ambivalent Partners in Modernization; 1 The Myth of "Familiar Germany": German-Japanese Relationships in the Meiji Period Reexamined; 2 Karl von Eisendecher and Japan: Transnational Encounters and the Diplomacy of Imperialism; 3 Count Hermann Keyserling's View of Japan: A Nation of Consummate Imitators
4 Western Criticism of an Occidental East: A German View of the Modernization of Japanese Literature, 1900-1945Part II Transnational Partners between Two World Wars; 5 When Jiu-Jitsu was German: Japanese Martial Arts in German Sport -- and Körperkultur, 1905-1933; 6 Anna and Siegfried Berliner: Two Academic Bridge Builders between Germany and Japan; 7 The German East Asiatic Society (OAG) during the Nazi Era; 8 Japanese Ambivalence toward Jewish Exiles in Japan; Part III Post-World War II Affinity: Pariah Nations?; 9 The Nuremberg and Tokyo IMT Trials: A Comparative Analysis
10 A "Penologic Program" for Japanese and German War Criminals, 1945-195811 Restoring German-Japanese Relations after World War II; 12 Peace, Business, and Classical Culture: The Relationship between the German Democratic Republic and Japan; 13 Transnational Communicability: German-Japanese Literature by Yoko Tawada; List of Contributors; Index
Summary 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
Subject Science.
sciences (philosophy)
science (modern discipline)
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th Century.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Science
Form Electronic book
Author Cho, Joanne Miyang, editor
Roberts, Lee, editor
Spang, Christian W., editor
ISBN 9781349579440
1349579440
9781137573971
113757397X