Part I. German missionaries and German-speaking Jews in China -- One family, two systems: how German missionary mothers and their Chinese "daughters" challenged the late Qing Confucian family model / Julia Stone -- Working with disaster: Weimar mission responses to the Boxer Catastrophe (1900-1901) / Lydia Gerber -- Representations of Jewish exile and models of memory in Shanghai Ghetto and Exil Shanghai / Prakash Shambhavi -- Part II. Japanese images of Germany and transnational flow between Germany and East Asia -- A close country in the distance: Japanese images of Germany in the 20th century / Toru Takenaka -- The Lex Adickes in East Asian contexts: the introduction of land readjustment and spatio-political effects / Jin-Sung Chun -- A nuclear fall-out turning political: the German-Japanese relationship and the consequences of the Fukushima nuclear incident / Volker Stanzl -- Part III. German and Austrian intellectuals/writers and East Asia -- Max Weber and East Asian development / Keumjae Park -- "History as a Poet": Stefan Zweig's historical and biographical writing in Maoist China / Arnhilt Hoefle -- Ming Ying Transreads Women: Christa Wolf and Chen Ran -- Part IV. Politics and sports during the Cold War era -- From war to peace: The Allied occupation of Germany and Japan / David M. Crowe -- War by other means: dynamics of sport in divided Germany and divided Korea / Aaron D. Horton