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Asian-German Filmography: A Teaching Guide, Qingyang Zhou, Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, Qinna Shen
Asian-German Filmography: A Teaching Guide, Qingyang Zhou, Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
This filmography includes fifty critically acclaimed, aesthetically creative, and/or thematically interesting Asian-German films produced by filmmakers in both the larger German-speaking world and in Asia, focusing mainly on East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. The list is organized geographically and chronologically. The countries represented are listed in descending order based on the size of the corresponding immigrant groups in Germany (see the figure below for exact numbers). Each entry includes both a short description that highlights unique features of the film and selected works of secondary literature—listed chronologically—that may be assigned as course readings.
Female Desire, Pop Rock, And The Tiananmen Generation: The Synergy Of Sexual And Political Revolutions In The Banned Chinese-German Film Summer Palace (2006), Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
The year 1989 comprises a vital part of the Tiananmen generation’s memory and identity. Yet any attempt to address the turbulent events of that year, however obliquely, carries a high risk of censorship. Lou Ye took that risk in Summer Palace (2006). His iconoclastic exploration of sex and politics at a thinly disguised Beijing University was banned in China and languishes in relative obscurity in the West. This article endeavors to ensure that Summer Palace receives the serious recognition it deserves. The film’s narrative arc stretches from Beijing to Berlin and uses a delayed death in Berlin as an opportunity …
The Berlin-Tokyo Film Axis And A Troubled Co-Production: The Makers Of New Earth/The Samurai's Daughter (1937), Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
Co-productions are often notoriously difficult, and this was certainly the case in 1936–37 for the most important co-production between Nazi Germany and Japan. What should have been one joint film for the international market turned out to be two different versions: New Earth in Japanese and English by Itami Mansaku and The Samurai’s Daughter in German and Japanese by Arnold Fanck. This article focuses on three filmmakers – producer Kawakita Nagamasa and the directors Fanck and Itami – to better understand the production and reception of the films and what led to the split between the directors. The push for …
Menschlichkeit In Der Zauberwelt: Walter Beck Und Seine Defa-Märchenfilme Aus Dem Atelier, Qinna Shen
Menschlichkeit In Der Zauberwelt: Walter Beck Und Seine Defa-Märchenfilme Aus Dem Atelier, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Implicating Buddhism In Madame Butterfly’S Tragedy: Japonisme And Japan-Bashing In Fritz Lang’S Harakiri (1919), Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
This chapter extensively examines Fritz Lang’s Harakiri (1919), an adaptation of the Madame Butterfly story made by Lang during his first year as a director. It studies the production and reception histories of the film, which was believed to be lost until a print was discovered in the Netherlands. In comparing the restored version of Harakiri with earlier versions of the story, the chapter observes that Lang’s film distinguishes itself by dramatizing the double hara-kiri of O-Take-San and her father and by transforming the Buddhist bonze (monk), who makes only a brief appearance in Puccini’s opera, into Butterfly’s principal antagonist. …
Review Of Asian Fusion: New Encounters In The Asian-German Avant-Garde, Qinna Shen
Review Of Asian Fusion: New Encounters In The Asian-German Avant-Garde, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
China, Corona Und Demokratie: Wie Können Die Chinesen Mündig Werden?, Qinna Shen
China, Corona Und Demokratie: Wie Können Die Chinesen Mündig Werden?, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
What Is Asian German Studies?, Chunjie Zhang, Doug Mcgetchin, Stefan Keppler‐Tasaki, Thomas Pekar, Caroline Rupprecht, Bettina Brandt, Johanna Schuster‐Craig, Joanne Miyang Cho, Qinna Shen, Veronika Fuechtner
What Is Asian German Studies?, Chunjie Zhang, Doug Mcgetchin, Stefan Keppler‐Tasaki, Thomas Pekar, Caroline Rupprecht, Bettina Brandt, Johanna Schuster‐Craig, Joanne Miyang Cho, Qinna Shen, Veronika Fuechtner
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Merkel The German “Empress Dowager”? Reactions To The Syrian Refugee Crisis In China And Other East Asian Countries, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
Taking a cue from a painting by Jiny Lan, a Chinese artist living in Germany, which captures Merkel’s refugee policy in 2015, the article examines both official and popular responses to the recent Syrian refugee crisis in China and other East Asian countries. In the painting, Merkel wears a Manchu-style headdress typical of women at the Qing court. Lan’s portrait of the German Chancellor resembles the Empress Dowager Cixi—one of the most powerful women in Chinese history, and a ruler with a contentious legacy. The article distills some of the major reasons for a positive or negative attitude toward accepting …
Review Of Karl Sierek: Der Lange Arm Der Ufa: Filmische Bilderwanderung Zwischen Deutschland, Japan Und China 1923–1949, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Refugee Scholar From Nazi Germany: Emmy Noether And Bryn Mawr College, Qinna Shen
A Refugee Scholar From Nazi Germany: Emmy Noether And Bryn Mawr College, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Tiananmen Square, Leipzig, And The "Chinese Solution": Revisiting The Wende From An Asian-German Perspective, Qinna Shen
Tiananmen Square, Leipzig, And The "Chinese Solution": Revisiting The Wende From An Asian-German Perspective, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Chinese Culture And Its Impact On Today’S Consumers And Markets, Boram Yi, Jason Q. Zhang, Qinna Shen
Chinese Culture And Its Impact On Today’S Consumers And Markets, Boram Yi, Jason Q. Zhang, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Raising The "Bamboo Curtain": Chinese Films In Divided Germany, Qinna Shen
Raising The "Bamboo Curtain": Chinese Films In Divided Germany, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Mothers, Comrades, And Outcasts In East German Women's Films (Review), Qinna Shen
Mothers, Comrades, And Outcasts In East German Women's Films (Review), Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Dekonstruktion Des Orientalismus: Defa-Filme Über Ostasien, Qinna Shen
Dekonstruktion Des Orientalismus: Defa-Filme Über Ostasien, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives. Edited By Jack Zipes, Pauline Greenhill, And Kendra Magnus-Johnston., Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Deconstructing Orientalism. Defa’S Fictions Of East Asia, Qinna Shen
Deconstructing Orientalism. Defa’S Fictions Of East Asia, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Von Bildhaftigkeit Zu Bauhausprinzip: Im Gespräch Mit Xin Lu (1) & Wer Hat Die Schönste Im Ganzen Land: Im Gespräch Mit Xin Lu (Interview With Xin Lu), Qinna Shen, Martin Rosenstock
Von Bildhaftigkeit Zu Bauhausprinzip: Im Gespräch Mit Xin Lu (1) & Wer Hat Die Schönste Im Ganzen Land: Im Gespräch Mit Xin Lu (Interview With Xin Lu), Qinna Shen, Martin Rosenstock
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Deploying Orientalism In Culture And History: From Germany To Central And Eastern Europe. Edited By James Hodkinson And John Walker, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Question Of Ideology And Realpolitik: Defa Documentaries On China, Qinna Shen
A Question Of Ideology And Realpolitik: Defa Documentaries On China, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Factories On The Magic Carpet: Heimat, Globalization, And The ‘Yellow Peril’, Qinna Shen
Factories On The Magic Carpet: Heimat, Globalization, And The ‘Yellow Peril’, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Story Of Little Mook & The Dress, Qinna Shen
The Story Of Little Mook & The Dress, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Revisiting The Wound Of A Nation: The ‘Good Nazi’ John Rabe And The Nanking Massacre, Qinna Shen
Revisiting The Wound Of A Nation: The ‘Good Nazi’ John Rabe And The Nanking Massacre, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Barometers Of Gdr Cultural Politics: Contextualizing The Defa Grimm Adaptations, Qinna Shen
Barometers Of Gdr Cultural Politics: Contextualizing The Defa Grimm Adaptations, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
This essay examines adaptations of the Grimms' fairy tales by the East German Film Studio, die Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA). After a brief discussion of the condemnation and rehabilitation of fairy tales in the Soviet Union and GDR (German Democratic Republic), it analyzes selected fairy-tale film adaptations against their political, ideological, and cultural-historical background. This investigation shows that the conception of the films, as well as their reception, responded quickly to vacillating liberal and repressive trends and thus functioned as a barometer of cultural politics in the GDR. As children's films, these adaptations illustrate an interesting synthesis of art and politics, …
The Ambiguity Of Revolution: Wu-Wei, Pathology And Criminality In Alfred Döblin’S "Die Drei Sprünge Des Wang-Lun. Chinesischer Roman", Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Defa Märchenfilme As Brechtian Parables: Gerhard Klein’S Die Geschichte Vom Armen Hassan And Konrad Petzold’S Das Kleid, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Shedding, Witchcraft, And The Romantic Subject: Feminist Appropriation Of The Witch In Sarah Kirsch’S Zaubersprüche, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
Against a background of the feminist appropriation of the witch taking place concurrently in second-wave American, French and West German feminism, the paper examines Sarah Kirsch’s appropriation of the witch as a subversive figure in her poetry cycle Zaubersprüche (Conjurations, 1973). In subverting the traditional image of the witch, Kirsch establishes a new one: that of a feminist witch and a feminist witch-writer. The witch is both the fictive character created by Kirsch, and her own self-designation; in the latter case, writing, especially writing in the experimental fashion, is a form of witchcraft. The paper analyzes the poems …
Feminist Redemption Of The Witch: Grimm And Michelet As Nineteenth-Century Models, Qinna Shen
Feminist Redemption Of The Witch: Grimm And Michelet As Nineteenth-Century Models, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
重组认同结构：东德德发制片厂1946–1961的电影 [Restructuring Identification: Defa As Counter-Cinema 1946–1961], Katie Trumpener, Qinna Shen
重组认同结构：东德德发制片厂1946–1961的电影 [Restructuring Identification: Defa As Counter-Cinema 1946–1961], Katie Trumpener, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.