China in the German Enlightenment /edited by Bettina Brandt and Daniel Leonhard Purdy. 

 - Toronto ;  Buffalo ;  London :  University of Toronto Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - German and European studies ;  24 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction /  1. How the Chinese became Yellow: A Contribution to the Early History of Race Theories /  2. Leibniz on the Existence of Philosophy in China /  3. Leibniz between Paris, Grand Tartary, and the Far East: Gerbillon's Intercepted Letter /  4. The Problem of China: Asia and Enlightenment Anthropology (Buffon, de Pauw, Blumenbach, Herder) /  5. Localizing China: Of Knowledge, Genres, and German Literary Historiography /  6. Eradicating the Orientalists: Goethe's Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten /  7. China on Parade: Hegel's Manipulation of His Sources and His Change of Mind /  8. Neo-Romantic Modernism and Daoism: Martin Buber on the Teaching as Fulfillment /  Daniel Purdy and Bettina Brandt --  Walter Demel --  Franklin Perkins --  Michael C. Carhart --  Carl Niekerk --  Birgit Tautz --  John K. Noyes --  Robert Bernasconi --  Jeffrey S. Librett. 
<br/><br/> "Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and everything to do with Enlightenment conceptions of political identity and Europe's own burgeoning global power. China in the German Enlightenment considers the place of German philosophy, particularly the work of Leibniz, Goethe, Herder, and Hegel, in this development. Beginning with the first English translation of Walter Demel's classic essay "How the Chinese Became Yellow," the collection's essays examine the connections between eighteenth-century philosophy, German Orientalism, and the origins of modern race theory."-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442616998 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>20159084733 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>German literature--History and criticism.--18th century<br/>Enlightenment--Germany.<br/>Philosophy, German--18th century.<br/>Orientalism--History--Germany--18th century.<br/>Orientalism in literature.<br/>Race in literature.<br/>Chinese in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PT289  / .C456 2016