Adopting a transnational approach, this edited volume reveals that
Germany and China have had many intense and varied encounters between
1890 and 1950. It focuses on their cross-cultural encounters,
entanglements, and bi-directional cultural flows. Although their initial
relationship was marked by the logic of colonialism, interwar
Sino-German relations established a cooperative relationship untainted
by imperialist politics several decades before the era of
decolonization. A range of topics are addressed, including pacifists in
Germany on the Boxer Rebellion, German investment in Qingdao, teachers
at German-Chinese schools, social and pedagogical theories and practice,
female literary and missionary connections, Sino-German musical
entanglements, humanitarian connections during the Nanjing Massacre,
Manchukuo-German diplomacy, and psychoanalysis during the Shanghai
exile.