01 Jun 2003

China um 1900 in den Augen der Zeit [China around 1900 in contemporary sources]
www.china1900.info, Austria
Supplied note: "'These pages bring to you what eyes have seen in China a hundred years ago, what ears have heard and brushes and quills have noted. They convey what Chinese literati and Western adventurers, scientists, diplomats and missionaries have lived to see around 1900 in Peking, Shanghai, Tsingdao, ..., and what they thought. If we lend their open eyes and follow their thoughts then we will see -- surprisingly enough: ourselves. We will better understand the China of today and gain new perspectives on the world we live in now. The men and women of those days can help us make a better guess on what the future will bring to us [...]' [tr. from German by HL]. A wonderful tour into old China, providing views and commentaries from a wealth of different contemporary sources such as entries from the famous German encyclopaedia 'Meyers Großes Konversationslexikon', talks given by Otto Franke at the beginning of the last century, polemics by Gu Hongming, novels by Guo Moruo and Ba Jin, and many more [...] - hl."
Contents: (1) Einleitung (Introduction); (2) Orte (places); (3) Literati und Abenteurer (Literati and Adventurers); (4) Leben (life); (5) Einschnitte (Events); (6) Verwendete Bücher (Bibliography).
URL http://www.china1900.info/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.china1900.info/
Link suggested by Diana Ehrenwert, Austria via Hanno Lecher (http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
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