Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Literature, Culture, and Media

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“Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Literature, Culture, and Media presents thought-provoking essays exploring the dynamic, but sometimes uneasy flow of cultural ideas and practices across continents, across a range of forms including travel writing, film and popular music, and offers further insights into the ongoing debates on history, place and identity within the complexities of global cultural interaction.” Felicia Chan, Professor of Transnational Film Cultures, University of Manchester, UK    This volume centres exchange as an analytical tool to conceive of Anglo-East Asian entanglements in literature, culture, and media from the eighteenth century until today. In its capacity to host diverse experiences, representations, and mediations, exchange enables the discussion of productive, reciprocal, often contested cross-cultural intersections, transfers, and flows, which may initiate long-term processes of hybridisation and transculturality. At its heart, this volume explores how transcultural exchanges have shaped the formation and self-perception of ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ identities and how these processes have been constructed, complicated, and negotiated in fiction, travel writing, philosophical and economic texts, theatre, film, music, manga, multi-media installations, and exhibitions. In our examination of Anglo-East Asian exchanges, we illustrate that the lines between binary oppositions are blurry at best; the manifold types of exchanges considered here offer inroads into a deeper understanding of the separating as well as uniting factors between East Asia and the anglosphere.  

Eva-Maria Windberger is a Postdoctoral Researcher in English Studies at the University of Luxembourg, where she investigates (trans)cultural identities and belonging in British East and South East Asian theatre and digital media. She is the author of The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels (Routledge, 2023) and co-editor (with Judith Neder) of Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures: Identities, Belongings, Plurality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026).

Judith Neder is Research Associate in British Cultural Studies at TU Dresden, Germany. Her doctoral thesis studies narratives of childhood and coming of age in contemporary British Chinese writing. She is the co-editor (with Eva-Maria Windberger) of Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures: Identities, Belongings, Plurality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026).

This volume centres exchange as an analytical tool to conceive of Anglo-East Asian entanglements in literature, culture, and media from the eighteenth century until today. In its capacity to host diverse experiences, representations, and mediations, exchange enables the discussion of productive, reciprocal, often contested cross-cultural intersections, transfers, and flows, which may initiate long-term processes of hybridisation and transculturality. At its heart, this volume explores how transcultural exchanges have shaped the formation and self-perception of ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ identities and how these processes have been constructed, complicated, and negotiated in fiction, travel writing, philosophical and economic texts, theatre, film, music, manga, multi-media installations, and exhibitions. In our examination of Anglo-East Asian exchanges, we illustrate that the lines between binary oppositions are blurry at best; the manifold types of exchanges considered here offer inroads into a deeper understanding of the separating as well as uniting factors between East Asia and the anglosphere.

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