Projektnummer

0057737

Zusammenfassung

Although the German lands in the 18th century lacked both a central political authority and colonies of their own, German intellectuals were fascinated with non-European cultures. Yet contrary to Susanne Zantop, who terms German thinkers as "armchair colonizers" whose colonial fantasies paved the way for Germany's later colonial enterprise, Zhang challenges the colonizer-versus-colonized model. Instead she emphasizes transcultural moments and highlights the dynamic interplay between European Enlightenment ideologies and non-European alternative knowledge through the lenses of travelogu...