Introduction
Daniel Purdy and Bettina Brandt
1. How the Chinese became Yellow: A Contribution to the Early History of Race Theories
Walter Demel
2. Leibniz on the Existence of Philosophy in China
Franklin Perkins
3. Leibniz between Paris, Grand Tartary, and the Far East: Gerbillon’s Intercepted Letter
Michael C. Carhart
4. The Problem of China: Asia and Enlightenment Anthropology (Buffon, de Pauw, Blumenbach, Herder)
Carl Niekerk
5. Localizing China: Of Knowledge, Genres, and German Literary Historiography
Birgit Tautz
6. Eradicating the Orientalists: Goethe’s Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten
John K. Noyes
7. China on Parade: Hegel’s Manipulation of His Sources and His Change of Mind
Robert Bernasconi
8. Neo-Romantic Modernism and Daoism: Martin Buber on the Teaching as Fulfillment
Jeffrey S. Librett