Ruth Mayer

Vanessa Künnemann

myths and realities of an urban phenomenon

Chinatowns in a transnational world

Judith Keller

Simone Lappert

Elisabeth Alexander

Liliana Bosch

Charlotte Brandi

Rosemarie Egger

Erika Flück

Ursula Niemand

Anna Ospelt

Marlen Saladin

Katrin Schregenberger

Ruth Schweikert

Eva Seck

Esther Spinner

Tabea Steiner

Anna Stern

Henriette Vasarhelyi

Laure Wyss

Frauen erfahren Frauen

Michael Gamper

Tweets, SMS, Facebook-Statusmeldungen oder Microblog-Einträge: Die Verfahren, Neuigkeiten zu verkünden und Wissen zu teilen, werden scheinbar immer kürzer. Dieser Band setzt den aktuellen Trend der Verknappung in Bezug zu seiner Vorgeschichte und zeigt: Die Konjunktur des Kurzen und Knappen setzte lange vor dem digitalen Zeitalter ein. Die Karriere der kleinen Formen hängt eng mit kulturellen Errungenschaften des 17. Jahrhunderts zusammen, die bis zum 19. Jahrhundert in der Herausbildung professioneller Mediennetzwerke rasant an Bedeutung gewannen. Seitdem bilden Anekdoten, Fallbeispiele, Kurzmeldungen, »Vermischtes«, Schlagzeilen und Miszellen »aus aller Welt« wesentliche Elemente der Organisation und Kommunikation moderner Wissensbestände.

Zur Mediengeschichte kleiner Formen vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart

Kurz & Knapp

This book explores the history, the reality, and the complex fantasy of American and European Chinatowns and traces the patterns of transnational travel and traffic between China, South East Asia, Europe, and the United States which informed the development of these urban sites. Despite obvious structural or architectural similarities and overlaps, Chinatowns differ markedly depending on their location. European versions of Chinatowns can certainly not be considered mere replications of the American model. Paying close attention to regional specificities and overarching similarities, Chinatowns thus discloses the important European backdrop to a phenomenon commonly associated with North America. It starts from the assumption that the historical and modern Chinatown needs to be seen as complicatedly involved in a web of cultural memory, public and private narratives, ideologies, and political imperatives. Most of the contributors to this volume have multidisciplinary and multilingual backgrounds and are familiar with several different instances of the Chinese diasporic experience. With its triangular approach to the developments between China and the urban Chinese diasporas of North America and Europe, Chinatowns reveals connections and interlinkages which have not been addressed before.

Ruth Mayer

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