Germany and China Transnational Encounters since the Eighteenth Century [Hardcover]

Combining transcultural and comparative approaches, the essays collected here exemplify the emerging field of German-Asian studies. Here, specialists examine the multi-faceted ties between the various German states and China over the past two centuries, as well as more personal relationships during an important period in both countries' histories.PART I: BETWEEN SINOPHILIA AND SINOPHOBIA: THE LATE ENLIGHTENMENT TO WORLD WAR I 1. The German Enlightenment and the End of Sinophilia; Peter Park 2. Equality without Freedom: The Familial Constitution of China in Hegel's Philosophy of History; Nicholas Germana 3. Writing for the China Mission: Karl G?tzlaff in the Middle Kingdom; Martin Rosenstock 4. Sino-German Relations, 1871-1918; David M. Crowe 5. Mediating Medicine: Li Benjing, Richard Wilhelm, and the Politics of Hygiene in the German Lease Kiautschou / Jiaozhou (1897-1914); Lydia Gerber PART II: THE UNCERTAIN PARTNERSHIP: CHINA AND GERMANY, 1918-1945 6. Sino-German Relations, 1918-1945; David M. Crowe and Christian Swanson 7. From Berlin to Nanjing: German Geography and the Globalization of Geopolitics, 1900 1949; Shellen Xiao Wu 8. Weimar and the Advent of the Third Reich in the Writings of Hermann Hesse. Post-romantic Yearning for the 'Limitless' and Collective Archetypes under the Influence of Chinese Thought; Volker Wehdeking, Hochschule der Medien 9. The Privileged Place of China in Albert Schweitzer's Politics of Civilization; Joanne Miyang Cho 10. Vestiges of 'Yellow-Peril' Discourse in Interwar Europe and Its Impact on Shanghailanders; Lee M. Roberts PART III: SINO-GERMAN RELATIONS AFTER 1945 11. Divided Nations: Images of China in East Germany through the 1960s; David Tompkins) 12. Friend or Foe?: The People's Republic of China in West German Cold War Politics; Sebastian Gehrig 13. Vergegenkunft: Encounters with China in German Travel Literature from the 1980s; Min Zhou 14. No Unwanted Advice: The People's Rel£-