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. Joanne Miyang Cho is a Professor at the History Department of William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA.

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Joanne Miyang Cho is a Professor at the History Department of William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA.

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CONTENTS

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 Ma*ßnahme (*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