Hysteria is alive and well in our present time and is apparently spreading contagiously: especially the second decade of the twenty-first century has displayed an ever-increasing interest in the term. A quick Google search opens the gates to sheer endless swathes of discussions on hysteria, covering almost every aspect of public discourses. The arts-as it is often in such cases-seem conspicuously involved in and engaged with this hysterical discourse. Surprisingly, while the strong academic interest in hysteria throughout the twentieth century and most prominently at the turn of the century is well known and much discussed, the study of how these discourses have continued well into twenty-first-century art practices, is largely pressing on a blind spot. It is the aim of this volume to illustrate how hysteria was already well established within the arts alongside and at times even separately from the much-covered medical studies, and reveal how those current artistic practices very much continue a century spanning cross-fertilization between hysteria and the arts.

Hysteria is alive and well in our present time and is apparently spreading contagiously: especially the second decade of the twenty-first century has displayed an ever-increasing interest in the term. A quick Google search opens the gates to sheer endless swathes of discussions on hysteria, covering almost every aspect of public discourses. The arts-as it is often in such cases-seem conspicuously involved in and engaged with this hysterical discourse. Surprisingly, while the strong academic interest in hysteria throughout the twentieth century and most prominently at the turn of the century is well known and much discussed, the study of how these discourses have continued well into twenty-first-century art practices, is largely pressing on a blind spot. It is the aim of this volume to illustrate how hysteria was already well established within the arts alongside and at times even separately from the much-covered medical studies, and reveal how those current artistic practices very much continue a century spanning cross-fertilization between hysteria and the arts.

Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und China etablierten sich seit fast 40 Jahren erfolgreich. Doch seit dem deutschen Regierungswechsel 2005 wird von chinesischer Seite eine Verschlechterung der Beziehungen und damit einhergehend eine schlechtere Darstellung Chinas in deutschen Medien beklagt. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht das Chinabild im deutschen Nachrichtenmagazin "Der SPIEGEL" und konzentriert sich dabei auf die Bildberichterstattung im Kontext von Artikel berschrift und Bildunterschrift. Prim res Ziel der Arbeit ist es, das aktuelle Nationenbild Chinas zu ermitteln und zu berpr fen, inwiefern sich dieses im Vergleich zum Jahr 2004 tats chlich ver ndert hat. Dazu wurden s mtliche Bilder der beiden Jahrg nge 2004 und 2009 mit einer quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse untersucht und statistisch ausgewertet.