Germany and China, 2014 Transnational Encounters since the Eighteenth Century Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies Series

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 Gützlaff 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 Republic of China and the Two German States between Tiananmen Square Protests and German Reunification 1989/90; Michael Mayer

Peter Park, University of Texas, Dallas, USA Nicholas Germana, Keene State University, USA Martin Rosenstock, Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait Lydia Gerber, Washington State University, USA Christian Swanson, Columbia University, USA Shellen Xiao Wu, University of Tennessee, USA Lee Roberts, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, USA David Tompkins, Carleton College, USA Sebastian Gehrig, Oxford University, UK Min Zhou Roger Williams University, USA Michael Mayer, Akademie für Politische Bildung, Germany