Format:
viii, 296 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
1137438460
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9781137438461
Content:
"Combining transcultural and comparative approaches, the essays collected here exemplify the best work being done in the emerging field of German-Asian studies. Here, a range of specialists examine the varied, multi-faceted ties between not only the various German states and China over the past two centuries, but also the more personal nature of such relationships during this important period in both these countries' histories. They cover a range of topics including economics, geography, history, human rights, philosophy, literature, politics, and religion. For the first time, they offer the reader a unique look at the role that each of these subjects played in developing what is today a very unique relationship between two of the world's most important political and economic powers"--
Content:
"Combining transcultural and comparative approaches, the essays collected here exemplify the best work being done in the emerging field of German-Asian studies. Here, a range of specialists examine the varied, multi-faceted ties between not only the various German states and China over the past two centuries, but also the more personal nature of such relationships during this important period in both these countries' histories. They cover a range of topics including economics, geography, history, human rights, philosophy, literature, politics, and religion. For the first time, they offer the reader a unique look at the role that each of these subjects played in developing what is today a very unique relationship between two of the world's most important political and economic powers"--
Note:
Papers from the German-Asian panels ... organized for the 2011 and 2012 German Studies Association (GSA) meetings, and earlier
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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PART I: BETWEEN SINOPHILIA AND SINOPHOBIA : THE LATE ENLIGHTENMENT TO WORLD WAR I1. The German Enlightenment and the End of Sinophilia
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2. Equality without Freedom : The Familial Constitution of China in Hegel's Philosophy of History
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3. A Prussian in China : Karl Friedrich Gützlaff's Travels in the Middle Kingdom
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4. Sino-German Relations, 1871-1918
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5. German Shipping and the Chinese Coolie Trade, 1850-1914
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6. Mediating Medicine : Li Benjing, Richard Wilhelm, and the Politics of Hygiene in the German Lease Kiautschou/Jiaozhou (1897-1914)
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PART II: THE UNCERTAIN PARTNERSHIP : CHINA AND GERMANY, 1918-1945 ; 7. Sino-German Relations, 1918-1945
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8. From Berlin to Nanjing : German Geography and the Globalization of Geopolitics, 1900-1949
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9. The Peculiar Placement of China in Albert Schweitzer's Politics of Civilization
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10. Apprehensions about Asia in Autobiographical Accounts of the Shanghai Ghetto and Vestiges of "Yellow-Peril" Discourse in Interwar Europe
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PART III: SINO-GERMAN RELATIONS AFTER 1945 ; 11. Divided Nations : Images of China in East Germany through the 1960s
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12. Friend or Foe? : The People's Republic of China in West German Cold War Politics
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13. Courting China, Condemning China : German Reactions to Beijing's Role in the Cambodian Genocide
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14. Vergegenkunft : Encounters with China in German Travel Literature from the 1980s
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15. The People's Republic of China and the German Reunification, 1989/90
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
China
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Internationale Politik
;
Kulturaustausch
;
Geschichte 1700-
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Deutschland
;
China
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Geschichte 1685-1990
;
Deutschland
;
China
;
Kulturbeziehungen
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=43158
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=45289
URL:
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/germany-and-china-joanne-miyang-cho/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137438461
Author information:
Cho, Joanne Miyang 1959-
