Saluting the yellow emperor : a case of Swedish sinography /
Johansson, Perry.
Saluting the yellow emperor : a case of Swedish sinography / by Perry Johansson. - 1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) - Sinica Leidensia, v. 104 0169-9563 ; . - Sinica Leidensia 104. Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223219. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One What was Sinology? -- Chapter Two Archaeology and the Western Origin of China -- Chapter Three The Swedish Chinese Expedition -- Chapter Four Empire and Ethnography -- Chapter Five The Karlbeck Syndicate -- Chapter Six Distorting History -- Chapter Seven Osvald Sirén’s Spiritual Far East -- Chapter Eight Swedish Maoism -- Chapter Nine Report from a Chinese Village -- Chapter Ten Anti-Imperialism? -- Sinophilia: A Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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Saluting the Yellow Emperor tells the fascinating story of a group of Swedish scholars who rediscovered the pronunciation of the Chinese classics, buried Silk Road cities, and a Chinese Stone Age, while spiriting antiquities out of Asia. Mining Swedish archives and drawing on letters, diaries, personal papers, and published accounts, it is the first collective history on this group of China scholars. In his analysis, Perry Johansson turns Edward Said’s argument about orientalism inside out. Rather than simply serving Western imperialism, Bernhard Karlgren, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Sven Hedin, Osvald Sirén, and Jan Myrdal were opportunists who highly appreciated the Chinese Empire whose civilizing mission in East and Central Asia they supported in word and deed. Whether friendly with Mao or Hitler, their occidentalist disdain of Western egalitarian societies made them champions of the Chinese mythology of obedient peasants ruled by an enlightened autocracy.
9789004226395
10.1163/9789004226395 DOI
Karlgren, Bernhard, 1889-1978.
Andersson, Johan Gunnar, 1874-1960.
Hedin, Sven Anders, 1865-1952.
Myrdal, Jan.
Sinologists--History--Sweden--20th century.
Historiography--History--Sweden--20th century.
Excavations (Archaeology)--China.
China--Civilization--Historiography.--To 221 B.C.
DS741.25 / .J65 2012
932.0072/022485
Saluting the yellow emperor : a case of Swedish sinography / by Perry Johansson. - 1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) - Sinica Leidensia, v. 104 0169-9563 ; . - Sinica Leidensia 104. Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223219. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One What was Sinology? -- Chapter Two Archaeology and the Western Origin of China -- Chapter Three The Swedish Chinese Expedition -- Chapter Four Empire and Ethnography -- Chapter Five The Karlbeck Syndicate -- Chapter Six Distorting History -- Chapter Seven Osvald Sirén’s Spiritual Far East -- Chapter Eight Swedish Maoism -- Chapter Nine Report from a Chinese Village -- Chapter Ten Anti-Imperialism? -- Sinophilia: A Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Saluting the Yellow Emperor tells the fascinating story of a group of Swedish scholars who rediscovered the pronunciation of the Chinese classics, buried Silk Road cities, and a Chinese Stone Age, while spiriting antiquities out of Asia. Mining Swedish archives and drawing on letters, diaries, personal papers, and published accounts, it is the first collective history on this group of China scholars. In his analysis, Perry Johansson turns Edward Said’s argument about orientalism inside out. Rather than simply serving Western imperialism, Bernhard Karlgren, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Sven Hedin, Osvald Sirén, and Jan Myrdal were opportunists who highly appreciated the Chinese Empire whose civilizing mission in East and Central Asia they supported in word and deed. Whether friendly with Mao or Hitler, their occidentalist disdain of Western egalitarian societies made them champions of the Chinese mythology of obedient peasants ruled by an enlightened autocracy.
9789004226395
10.1163/9789004226395 DOI
Karlgren, Bernhard, 1889-1978.
Andersson, Johan Gunnar, 1874-1960.
Hedin, Sven Anders, 1865-1952.
Myrdal, Jan.
Sinologists--History--Sweden--20th century.
Historiography--History--Sweden--20th century.
Excavations (Archaeology)--China.
China--Civilization--Historiography.--To 221 B.C.
DS741.25 / .J65 2012
932.0072/022485