Germany and China
Subtitle: transnational encounters since the eighteenth century
By: edited by Joanne Miyang Cho and David M. Crowe
Contributors: German Studies Association
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781137438461
Subjects: Congresses; Relations; Foreign relations; HISTORY / Asia / China; HISTORY / Europe / Germany; HISTORY / Modern / General
Description: "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"--
Notes: Papers from the German-Asian panels ... organized for the 2011 and 2012 German Studies Association (GSA) meetings, and earlier.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: PART I: BETWEEN SINOPHILIA AND SINOPHOBIA : THE LATE ENLIGHTENMENT TO WORLD WAR I; title: 1. The German Enlightenment and the End of Sinophilia / Peter Park; title: 2. Equality without Freedom : The Familial Constitution of China in Hegel's Philosophy of History / Nicholas Germana; title: 3. A Prussian in China : Karl Friedrich Gützlaff's Travels in the Middle Kingdom / Martin Rosenstock; title: 4. Sino-German Relations, 1871-1918 / David M. Crowe; title: 5. German Shipping and the Chinese Coolie Trade, 1850-1914 / Shirley Ye; title: 6. Mediating Medicine : Li Benjing, Richard Wilhelm, and the Politics of Hygiene in the German Lease Kiautschou/Jiaozhou (1897-1914) / Lydia Gerber; title: PART II: THE UNCERTAIN PARTNERSHIP : CHINA AND GERMANY, 1918-1945; title: 7. Sino-German Relations, 1918-1945 / David M. Crowe and Christian Swanson; title: 8. From Berlin to Nanjing : German Geography and the Globalization of Geopolitics, 1900-1949 / Shellen Xiao Wu; title: 9. The Peculiar Placement of China in Albert Schweitzer's Politics of Civilization / Joanne Miyang Cho; title: 10. Apprehensions about Asia in Autobiographical Accounts of the Shanghai Ghetto and Vestiges of "Yellow-Peril" Discourse in Interwar Europe / Lee Roberts; title: PART III: SINO-GERMAN RELATIONS AFTER 1945; title: 11. Divided Nations : Images of China in East Germany through the 1960s / David Tompkins; title: 12. Friend or Foe? : The People's Republic of China in West German Cold War Politics / Sebastian Gehrig; title: 13. Courting China, Condemning China : German Reactions to Beijing's Role in the Cambodian Genocide / Andrew Port; title: 14. Vergegenkunft : Encounters with China in German Travel Literature from the 1980s / Min Zhou; title: 15. The People's Republic of China and the German Reunification, 1989/90 / Michael Mayer.