Open Access Journal: Transcultural Studies

Transcultural Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal committed to promoting the knowledge and research of transculturality in all disciplines. It is published by the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries and Cultural Flows” of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

Previous Issues:


No. 1 (2010)
featuring contributions by Arjun Appadurai, Douglas Howland, James Elkins, and Gennifer Weisenfeld.


No. 1 (2011)
featuring contributions by Rudolf G. Wagner, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Christine Stephan-Kaissis, Stefan A. Faller, Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Claudia Wenzel, and Atushi Shibasaki in a translation by Gaynor Sekimori.


Current Issue:

No 2 (2011)

Table of Contents

Cover 2011/2	PDF

Editor's Note

Issue 2011/2	HTML PDF
Rudolf G. Wagner	4-5

Articles

Krishna and the Plaster Cast. Translating the Cambodian Temple of Angkor Wat in the French Colonial Period	HTML PDF
Michael Falser	6-50

The Korean Images of Tibet and Sirhak Scholars: the Plurality of Truths? In Relation to the Issue of the Epistemological Shift in Eighteenth-Century Korea	HTML PDF
Vladimir Tikhonov	51-65

Series on Multi-Centred Modernisms

‘China’ on Display for European Audiences? The Making of an Early Travelling Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art: China Avantgarde (Berlin/1993)	HTML PDF
Franziska Koch	66-139

Themed Section: The Transcultural Travels of Trends

The Transcultural Travels of Trends. An Introductory Essay	HTML PDF
Jennifer Elisabeth Altehenger, Laila Abu-Er-Rub, Sebastian Gehrig	140-163

Imagining Transcultural Fandom: Animation and Global Media Communities	HTML PDF
Sandra Annett	164-188

(Re-)Configuring Mao: Trajectories of a Culturo-Political Trend in West Germany	HTML PDF
Sebastian Gehrig	189-231

Coffee, Fast Food, and the Desire for Romantic Love in Contemporary China: Branding and Marketing Trends in Popular Chinese-Language Literature	HTML PDF
Lena Henningsen	232-270