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.

Germany and China is a rich book that extends this transnational approach to Asian-German studies in general and to the study of Sino-German relations in particular. Germany and China serves as a thoroughly researched, immensely informative guide for extending German studies to new exciting encounters with other disciplines. (David D. Kim, Amerikastudien, Vol. 61 (3), 2017)

This publication truly achieves the editors' claim to provide 'a more comprehensive presentation and a broader analysis of Sino-German relations from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century than any existing volume on this topic' . I highly recommend this excellently edited volume to students and scholars of IR studies, to historians and to anyone who is interested in German-Asian studies or in transnational approaches in general. (Irmy Schweiger, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, March, 2016)

Autorentext
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

Inhalt
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