Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia

1. Introduction
Joanne Miyang Cho, Douglas T. McGetchin

Part 1. Gender Questions in Philosophy and Mission in the Nineteenth Century

2. The Colossal and Grotesque: The Aesthetics of German Orientalism in Kant and Hegel
Nicholas A. Germana

3. Goethe and Günderrode: German Poetic Readings of Indian Fatalism
Dorothy Figueira

4. “Rescuing” and Raising Basket Babies: Chinese Foundling Girls, Female Infanticide, and German Missionary Gender Role Contestation (1850s–1914)
Julia Stone

5. Picturing Labor: Gender, German Ethnography, and Anticolonial Reforms in the Philippines
Marissa H. Petrou

Part 2. Inverted Romance, Gender Ideals, and Refugees, 1900–1945

6. From Submission to Subversion? The Aidaoyuan Boarding School for Chinese Girls in Qingdao, 1904–1914
Lydia Gerber

7. Indo-German Contact Through the Lens of Gender: Three Cases of Anti-Imperialist Miscegenation: Dr. Zakir Husain, Virendrenath “Chatto” Chattopadhyaya, and S.C. Bose
Douglas T. McGetchin

8. The Liberating Masculinity of Goethe’s Werther and Its Repression in Modern China
Arnhilt Johanna Hoefle

9. German-Jewish Women in Wartime Shanghai and Their Encounters with the Chinese
Joanne Miyang Cho

Part 3. Gender, Migration, and Cultural Representation in Postwar Germany

10. The Gendered Migration Experience: South Korean Nurses in West Germany
Suin Roberts

11.
Śakuntalā in the GDR: Gender Dynamics in Vijaya Mehta’s Leipzig Production of Kālidāsa’s Play
Joerg Esleben

12.
Woman as an East–West Constant: Patriarchal Continuities in Works by Mori Ōgai and Yōko Tawada
Lee M. Roberts

13. Victims of Traffic in Women, Marriage Migrants, and Community Formation: A History of Migration of Thai Women to Germany
Pataya Ruenkaew

14. From Contract Workers to Entrepreneurs: Gender and Work Among Transnational Vietnamese in East and Reunited Germany
Gertrud Hüwelmeier

Keywords: History, Asian History, History of Germany and Central Europe, Social History, Gender Studies