Contact Zones in China

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Merle Schatz, Laura De Giorgi, Peter Ludes, Merle Schatz, Laura De Giorgi, Peter Ludes

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2020
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110663426
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

The local experiences of foreigners in China in the 19th and early 20th centuries exemplify the often latent or tacit patterns of social encounters, individually or in groups, with certain cultural boundedness, stability, and homogeneity. This book takes into account virtual, mediated, imaginative contact zones and looks back at much slower and delimited times and focuses primarily on some selective experiences by Italians and Germans. In doing so it accounts for trajectories from individual and small groups with local, territorial, physical and fully sensual interfaces to fully programmed and highly steered contact zones in the 21st century.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 A German Missionary in China (1862–1898)
• 2 Political Terms in Lobscheid’s English- Chinese Dictionary (1866–1869)
• 3 The Italian Community in ‘Old Shanghai’ (1842–1941)
• 4 Sino-Italian Encounters in the Late Qing Press (1872–1911)
• 5 Italian Diplomats in China during the Republican Era (1912–1949)
• 6 Italians in Beijing (1953–1962)
• 7 Italians in Soviet-Sponsored International Organizations in China
• 8 West-German – Chinese Trade Experiences in Historical Perspective
• 9 Communicating with/via Modern Chinese Philosophy during the 20th Century
• 10 Contact Zones and/as Combat Zones: Representing the Nanjing Massacre
• 11 Local, Virtual, and Programmed Contact Zones
• Conclusion
• Contributors