Bettina Brandt is a Teaching Professor of German and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. Daniel Leonhard Purdy is a professor of German Studies at Penn State University.

‘The volume as a whole and each individual essay will inspire future scholarly interest in the German reception of China.’- Weijia Li (Monatshefte ) ‘The book collects eight remarkably coherent essays by historians, philosophers, and Germanists… After reading these well-crafted essays, we cannot help feeling the gratification afforded by new historical knowledge.’- Chenxi Tang (The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory) "This collection of essays by both older and newer voices in Asian-German studies does an excellent job of illuminating both ‘the problem of China’ and ‘the problem of Europe’ from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first. It will undoubtedly spur on new and, hopefully, equally productive responses." - Nicolas A. Germana (University of Toronto Quarterly )

• IntroductionDaniel Purdy and Bettina Brandt1. How the Chinese became Yellow: A Contribution to the Early History of Race TheoriesWalter Demel2. Leibniz on the Existence of Philosophy in ChinaFranklin Perkins3. Leibniz between Paris, Grand Tartary, and the Far East: Gerbillon’s Intercepted LetterMichael C. Carhart4. The Problem of China: Asia and Enlightenment Anthropology (Buffon, de Pauw, Blumenbach, Herder)Carl Niekerk5. Localizing China: Of Knowledge, Genres, and German Literary HistoriographyBirgit Tautz6. Eradicating the Orientalists: Goethe’s Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und TageszeitenJohn K. Noyes7. China on Parade: Hegel’s Manipulation of His Sources and His Change of MindRobert Bernasconi8. Neo-Romantic Modernism and Daoism: Martin Buber on the Teaching as FulfillmentJeffrey S. Librett

Bettina Brandt is a Teaching Professor of German and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. Daniel Leonhard Purdy is a professor of German Studies at Penn State University.

‘The volume as a whole and each individual essay will inspire future scholarly interest in the German reception of China.’- Weijia Li (Monatshefte ) ‘The book collects eight remarkably coherent essays by historians, philosophers, and Germanists… After reading these well-crafted essays, we cannot help feeling the gratification afforded by new historical knowledge.’- Chenxi Tang (The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory) "This collection of essays by both older and newer voices in Asian-German studies does an excellent job of illuminating both ‘the problem of China’ and ‘the problem of Europe’ from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first. It will undoubtedly spur on new and, hopefully, equally productive responses." - Nicolas A. Germana (University of Toronto Quarterly )

• IntroductionDaniel Purdy and Bettina Brandt1. How the Chinese became Yellow: A Contribution to the Early History of Race TheoriesWalter Demel2. Leibniz on the Existence of Philosophy in ChinaFranklin Perkins3. Leibniz between Paris, Grand Tartary, and the Far East: Gerbillon’s Intercepted LetterMichael C. Carhart4. The Problem of China: Asia and Enlightenment Anthropology (Buffon, de Pauw, Blumenbach, Herder)Carl Niekerk5. Localizing China: Of Knowledge, Genres, and German Literary HistoriographyBirgit Tautz6. Eradicating the Orientalists: Goethe’s Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und TageszeitenJohn K. Noyes7. China on Parade: Hegel’s Manipulation of His Sources and His Change of MindRobert Bernasconi8. Neo-Romantic Modernism and Daoism: Martin Buber on the Teaching as FulfillmentJeffrey S. Librett

Bettina Brandt is a Teaching Professor of German and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. Daniel Leonhard Purdy is a professor of German Studies at Penn State University.

‘The volume as a whole and each individual essay will inspire future scholarly interest in the German reception of China.’- Weijia Li (Monatshefte ) ‘The book collects eight remarkably coherent essays by historians, philosophers, and Germanists… After reading these well-crafted essays, we cannot help feeling the gratification afforded by new historical knowledge.’- Chenxi Tang (The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory) "This collection of essays by both older and newer voices in Asian-German studies does an excellent job of illuminating both ‘the problem of China’ and ‘the problem of Europe’ from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first. It will undoubtedly spur on new and, hopefully, equally productive responses." - Nicolas A. Germana (University of Toronto Quarterly )

• IntroductionDaniel Purdy and Bettina Brandt1. How the Chinese became Yellow: A Contribution to the Early History of Race TheoriesWalter Demel2. Leibniz on the Existence of Philosophy in ChinaFranklin Perkins3. Leibniz between Paris, Grand Tartary, and the Far East: Gerbillon’s Intercepted LetterMichael C. Carhart4. The Problem of China: Asia and Enlightenment Anthropology (Buffon, de Pauw, Blumenbach, Herder)Carl Niekerk5. Localizing China: Of Knowledge, Genres, and German Literary HistoriographyBirgit Tautz6. Eradicating the Orientalists: Goethe’s Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und TageszeitenJohn K. Noyes7. China on Parade: Hegel’s Manipulation of His Sources and His Change of MindRobert Bernasconi8. Neo-Romantic Modernism and Daoism: Martin Buber on the Teaching as FulfillmentJeffrey S. Librett