Joanne Miyang Cho - Musical Entanglements between Germany and East Asia: Transnational Affinity in the 20th and 21st Centuries

This series contributes to the emerging field of Asian-German Studies by bringing together cutting-edge scholarship from international scholars in a variety of fields. It encourages the publication of works by specialists globally on the multi-faceted dimensions of ties between the German-speaking world (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and German-speaking enclaves in Eastern Europe) and Asian countries over the past two centuries. Rejecting traditional notions of West and East as seeming polar opposites (e.g., colonizer and colonized), the volumes in this series attempt to reconstruct the ways in which Germans and Asians have cooperated and negotiated the challenge of modernity in various fields. The volumes cover a range of topics that combine the perspectives of anthropology, comparative religion, economics, geography, history, human rights, literature, philosophy, politics, and more. For the first time, such publications offer readers a unique look at the role that the German-speaking world and Asia have played in developing what is today a unique relationship between two of the worlds currently most vibrant political and economic regions.

ADVISORY BOARD:

Prof. Sebastian Conrad, Freie University of Berlin

Prof. Dorothy Figueira, University of Georgia

Prof. Doris Fischer, Wrzburg University

Prof. Suzanne Marchand, Lousiana State University

Prof. Lee M. Roberts, Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Prof. Franziska Seraphim, Boston College

More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14664

Cover illustration: English: Gertud Eysoldt as Turandot; Alexander Moissi as Calaf. Photos from the program book for Max Reinhardts 1911 production of Gozzis Turandot with incidental music by Ferruccio Busoni.

This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG

The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

The editor would like to express her appreciation to Editor Meagan Simpson at Palgrave Macmillan for her generous assistance and accommodation. She is grateful to her fellow Asian German Studies scholars, many of whom are regular participants at the German Studies Association annual conferences, where they present their exciting new research and support each others scholarly endeavors. The contributors are especially thankful to Sarah Panzer for her tireless and invaluable assistance in editing the manuscript.