Transcultural Turbulences

1. Introduction – Transcultural Turbulences: Towards a Multi-sited Reading of Image Flows
Christiane Brosius, Roland Wenzlhuemer

2. Love in the Age of Valentine and Pink Underwear: Media and Politics of Intimacy in South Asia
Christiane Brosius

3. Shifting Identities and Cosmopolitan Machineries: A New World Imagined at the 1919 Peace Conference in Paris
Madeleine Herren

4. “The 99”: Islamic Superheroes – A New Species?
Susanne Enderwitz

5. Guides to a Global Paradise: Shanghai Entertainment Park Newspapers and the Invention of Chinese Urban Leisure
Catherine Yeh

6. The Art of Cosmopolitanism: Visual Potentialities in Ma Jun, Tomokazu Matsuyama, David Diao, and Patty Chang
Alexandra Chang

7. Pictorial Encounter: Iconoclasm and Syncretism on India’s Western Coast
Alexander Henn

8. Kannon – Guanyin – Virgin Mary: Early Modern Discourses on Alterity, Religion and Images
Eva Zhang

9. The Work of Goddesses in the Age of Mass Reproduction
Sumathi Ramaswamy

10. Pushpamala N. and the ‘Art’ of Cinephilia in India
Ajay Sinha

11. The Changing Image of Sinhalese Healing Rituals: Performing Identity in the Context of Transculturality
Eva Ambos

12. An Exotic Self? Tracing Cultural Flows of Western Nudes in Pei-yang Pictorial News (1926–1933)
Sun Liying

Keywords: Humanities / Arts / Design, Regional and Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Anthropology