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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 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 Fulfilment -- Contributors -- Index.
China in the German Enlightenmentexamines the connections between eighteenth-century philosophy, German Orientalism, and the origins of modern race theory.