[A] well-edited volume and a welcome addition to scholarship. [Its] tripartite structure aids the conceptual cohesion of its widely varying essays. Most pleasing was perhaps the insight that it is not only material produced during our own self-proclaimed age of globalization, but also texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that appear to challenge those simplistic occidental-oriental dualisms we would all do well to dispense with.

- James Hodkinson, MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW

[The editors of this volume] stake [its] claim as the first collection of essays in the emerging field of Asian German studies. It offers new insights into the particularities of the Asian German experience and draws attention to the heterogeneity of the categories of German and Asian at different times and in different geographical locations. . . . The essays . . . model possible theoretical approaches and potential topics; in this sense, this accessible volume functions as a good introduction to the field. Recommended.

CHOICE

Presenting a welcome example of interdisciplinary and transnational research, this volume brings together a dozen scholarly essays that examine German visions of Asia as reflected in filmic, literary, philosophical, sociological, and anthropological texts. As such, this volume provides insights into an area of recent development in German studies in the United States by offering a wide thematic scope of research and scholarship in the field of Asian-German studies. . . . The breadth of the thematic fields investigated is another admirable strength of the volume. . . . [S]erves as a fine example for the range and complexity of scholarship in Asian-German studies in the United States and thus makes a valuable contribution to the field of German studies.

MONATSHEFTE