Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia

This volume provides new insights into gendered interactions over the past two centuries between Germany and Asia, including India, China, Japan, and previously overlooked Asian countries including Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Korea. This volume presents scholarship from academics working in the field of German-Asian Studies as it relates to gender across transnational encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Gender has been a lens of analysis in isolated published chapters in previous edited volumes on German-Asian connections, but nowhere has there been a volume specifically dedicated to the analysis of gender in this field. Rejecting traditional notions of West and East as seeming polar opposites, their contributions to this volume attempts to reconstruct the ways in which German and Asian men and women have cooperated and negotiated the challenge of modernity in various fields. 

• gender in Asia
• gender in transnational encounters
• German-Asian transcultural analysis
• German assessment of the Asian feminine
• gendered migrant experience in Europe

• William Paterson University of New Jersey, Wayne, USA

  Joanne Miyang Cho

• Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

  Douglas T. McGetchin

Joanne Miyang Cho is Professor and chair of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA. She is co-editor of Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India (2014), Germany and China (2014), and Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan (2016). She is currently co-editing German-Korean relations. She is co-editor of Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies.

Douglas T. McGetchin is Associate Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University, USA where he studies transnational connections between Modern Germany and South Asia. His publications include Indology, Indomania, and Orientalism (2009) and several edited volumes (2004, 2014) on German-Indian connections. He is a recipient of Nehru-Fulbright and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grants.

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