This collection of new essays explores how Germany's imagined Asia informed its national fantasies at crucial historical junctures. It will influence future scholarly explorations of Asian-German cultural transfer.

IntroductionEast-West Globality and the European Mode of Film ProductionCitizenship-Shifting: Race and Xing-Hu Kuo's Claim on East German MemoryNarratives of Transnational Divide: The Vietnamese in Contemporary German Literature and FilmFactories on the Magic Carpet: Heimat, Globalization, and the "Yellow Peril" in Die Chinesen kommen and Losers and WinnersGermany's India: A Critical Re-interrogationIndians, Jews, and Sex: Magnus Hirschfeld and Indian SexologyThe Ambivalence of a Spiritual Quest in India: Waldemar Bonsels's IndienfahrtTraveling through Imperialism: Representational Crisis and Resolution in Elisabeth von Heyking's and Alfons Paquet's Travel Writing on ChinaMeasuring Asian-ness: Erwin Baelz's Anthropological Expeditions in Fin-de-Siècle KoreaThe Tat Tvam Asi Formula and Schopenhauer's "Deductive Leap"German Indophilia, Femininity, and Transcultural Symbiosis around 1800Reading Genji in German: Reflections on World Literature and Asian-German StudiesBibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex