This ambitious work is a multimedia, interdisciplinary study of Chinese modernity in the
context of globalization from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sheldon Lu draws on …

Consumer researchers tend to equate successful marketization—the transition from a
socialist to a capitalist economy—with the consensual acquiescence to an idealized …

Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked “nostalgia” to identify an uncritical
longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However …

Heimat is dead—long live Heimat! 1 There can be no doubt: the Heimat film genre, assumed
to be passé by so many, is alive and well. Who would have thought that this genre—which …

In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in
large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city–a place where artists from around the …

Linked to the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, UK, this series
offers a space for new research that challenges the limitations of national, linguistic and …

This article surveys three recent German films set in the former East Germany: Das Leben
der Anderen (“The Lives of Others”), Good Bye Lenin!, and Sonnenallee. It finds the critical …

“Wer hat an der Uhr gedreht?”[Who reset the clock?] was the title of an article in the German
magazine Focus with reference to the Oscar nominations of Hugo Cabret (Scorsese, 2011) …

InPrecarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and
photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary …

In former Eastern Bloc nations, nostalgia is often seen as a dangerous pining for days under
totalitarian regimes in the face of rocky transitions to democratization. This paper questions …