Selected papers from a conference held in 2009 at Heidelberg University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction. Introduction-- transcultural turbulences : towards a multi-sited reading of image flows / Christiane Brosius and Roland Wenzlhuemer -- Part II. Visual cosmopolitanism. Love in the age of valentine and pink underwear : media and politics of intimacy in South Asia / Christiane Brosius ; Shifting identities and cosmopolitan machineries : a new world imagined at the 1919 Peace Conference in Paris / Madeleine Herren ; "The 99" : Islamic superheroes-- a new species? / Susanne Enderwitz ; Guides to a global paradise : Shanghai entertainment park newspapers and the invention of Chinese urban leisure / Catherine Yeh ; The art of cosmopolitanism : visual potentialities in Ma Jun, Tomokazu Matsuyama, David Diao, and Patty Chang / Alexandra Chang -- Part III. Circulating images. Pictorial encounter : iconoclasm and syncretism on India's western coast / Alexander Henn ; Kannon, Guanyin, Virgin Mary : Early modern discourses on alterity, religion and images / Eva Zhang ; The work of goddesses in the age of mass reproduction / Sumathi Ramaswamy ; Pushpamala N. and the 'art' of cinephilia in India / Ajay Sinha ; The changing image of Sinhalese healing rituals : performing identity in the context of transculturality / Eva Ambos ; An exotic self? Tracing cultural flows of Western nudes in Pei-yang Pictorial News (1926-1933) / Sun Liying.