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Seeking the Self
This book is about the self in contemporary Japan. In contrast to Euro-American cultures, in which the self is considered to be the essence of personhood, in Japanese culture the self is constantly reconstructed in relation to others. This particular self is studied by examining the ways popular culture is consumed, with a special focus on manga, the Japanese word for comics and cartoons. The first part of the book contains an ethnographic research in which the author investigates the relationship between popular media and the search for self-knowledge. In the second part a historical analysis traces the development of self-seeking in Japan since the country's modernisation period.
The Sword Or the Needle
Focusing on narratives about female knights-errant (xia) along thematic lines in Chinese literacy history, this text provides an overview of the narrative subgenre, the literary representation of gender and the particularities of the Chinese knight-errantry narrative.
Asiatische Studien
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Democratizing Luxury
Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to mass-produced products as an important business model. Japanese name-brand luxury evolved alongside a consumer society emerging in the late nineteenth century, with iconic companies whose names became associated with quality and style. At the same time, Western ideas of modernity merged with earlier artisanal ideals to create Japanese connotations of luxury for readily accessible products. Businesses manufactured items at all price points to increase consumer attainability, while starkly curtailing pr...
Contemporary Asian Modernities
This book is a collection of selected essays presented at the International Symposium on «Contemporary Asian Modernities: Transnationality, Interculturality and Hybridity» hosted by the Humanities Programme of Hong Kong Baptist University in September 2006. As «modernity» has been used to describe the cultural, economic and socio-political conditions in the Western worlds, the time in which we now live and the Asian countries where capitalistic transformation is extensively carried out are already articulating their own descriptions. The essays collected here discuss the notions of «contemporary», «Asia» and «modernities» as they relate to the global trend of adopting capitalism. They probe into questions related to modernity as well as global modernity, ranging from China in particular to Asia in general. As reflected in the pluriversal meanings in the title, the book endeavours to make critical inquiries into the concept of modernity/modernities from different perspectives.
Laozi flankt, Konfuzius dribbelt
Seit dem zweiten Jahrhundert vor unserer Zeitrechnung haben chinesische Historiographen, Literaten und Künstler aufmerksam das Thema «Fussball» verfolgt und dessen positive Wirkung auf Körper und Geist gepriesen. Diese kunst- und kulturgeschichtliche Studie untersucht zahlreiche literarische und bildliche Darstellungen und zeichnet die Entwicklungslinien nach von den mythischen Anfängen hin zu ethisch-moralischer Tugendbildung, zu paramilitärischem Konditionstraining sowie zur aktiven Freizeitgestaltung und der Fussballbegeisterung an den Höfen einiger Kaiser. Bildliche Darstellungen bieten einen Einblick in den technisch perfekten Umgang mit dem Ball, der seit etwa 700 n. Chr. «rund...
Experiment Tibet
Die Autorin dieses Buches widmet sich mit dem Thema «Bildung in Tibet» einem Bereich, der zwar in der wissenschaftlichen Forschungsliteratur zu China und Tibet erst marginal diskutiert wird, im Rahmen der Modernisierung Chinas jedoch aktueller denn je ist. Bildung für wen und wozu und in welcher Sprache? Von dieser Frage geleitet, geht die Autorin den Motivationen und Aktionen unterschiedlicher Handlungsträger auf verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen und bürokratischen Ebenen nach. Sie beleuchtet historische Vorbedingungen, erläutert zeitgleiche politisch-ökonomische Kontexte und macht so die komplexen Mechanismen zwischen Regierungszentrale, Lokalbehörden und Schulen sichtbar. Interviews mit tibetischen Jugendlichen vor Ort und mit den Initiatoren mehrerer Schulprojekte runden die historisch-soziologische Studie ab und schlagen die Brücke zur wahrnehmbaren Realität der Gegenwart.
Karneval der Götter
Originally presented as the author's habilitation (Heidelberg) under the title: Nationale Mythen und Konfigurationen kulturellen Wandels in der chinesischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts.
