Yixu Lü
Biographic Data
| ID | 5777657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yixu Lü |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yixu |
| FAMILY NAME | Lü |
| SIGNATURE | LU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8168-6304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
China frisst Menschen«
Richard Huelsenbeck’s 1930 novel China frisst Menschen (China devours People) combines travelogue, avant-garde formal experimentation, and anti-colonial reflection into a text that resists conventional genre classifications. This article shows how Huelsenbeck employs aesthetic strategies to destabilise colonial patterns of perception. The China depicted in the novel appears less as a concrete cultural space than as a projection surface on which t…
Translating the East: An introduction
Transforming the East: A New Research Project in Australia
The Jesuit translations of the Confucian canon not only provided one of the first European windows into Chinese culture but also changed the intellectual and cultural history of Europe. This paper introduces a new project, which examines the rich history of these translations and their dissemination, and interrogates how Confucian ideas influenced the development of Enlightenment intellectual culture, analysing the personal and textual networks t…
Wilhelm Von Humboldt and Heinrich Von Kleist: Imagining the State in the Wake of the French Revolution
Scholarship has paid scant attention to affinities between the thought of Wilhelm von Humboldt and that of Heinrich von Kleist. Both were, at different times, fascinated by the aftermath of the French Revolution and its influence on the shape of contemporary Europe. Humboldt's essays of the 1790s plead the cause of individual ‘Bildung’ against the hegemony of an interventionist state. His verdict on the new French constitution is ultimately pessi…
On the Genesis of Colonial Geography: China in Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 1855–1914
This essay examines representations of China in Germany's most influential geographical journal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a view to establishing whether first‐hand accounts by explorers revealed a fundamentally different China from the abstract generalisations of the eighteenth century and in Hegel's philosophy of history. It charts the transition from one mythicising view of China as existing in a state of stagnat…
The Boxers in Contemporary Chinese and German Fiction: Mo Yan and Gerhard Seyfried
Germany’s colonial adventures in China have emerged increasingly over the last decade from a century of silence and neglect by historians, and in the wake of this revival the literary potential of this epoch has once more been exploited. Gerhard Seyfried’s novel Gelber Wind oder Der Aufstand der Boxer (Yellow Wind or The Boxer Uprising, 2008) has 640 pages and is exhaustively researched.1 What is claimed on the dust-jacket, that Seyfried’s work i…
Germany's War in China: Media Coverage and Political Myth
This essay examines the coverage of the Boxer uprising in the German mainstream press in 1900 as a shaper and reflection of public opinion. Through comparative analyses of contrasting strategies of reporting in three major daily papers with different readerships, the Kölnische Zeitung , the Frankfurter Zeitung and the Berliner Morgenpost , it shows how certain events emerge as ‘key experiences’, resulting in a surprisingly convergent, patriotic n…
German Colonial Fiction on China: The Boxer Uprising of 1900
This essay examines popular fiction from the years 1900-1902 that either bears directly on the Boxer Uprising or takes advantage of the vogue generated by the intense public interest in it. It focuses on the composition of the image of China that emerges from these texts, and, more importantly, on the conceptual structures underlying it. In this way it may serve as a testing ground for some aspects of Edward Said's theory of Orientalism and more …
Germany: Myth and Apologia in Christa Wolf’s Novel Medea. Voices
In 1995, Christa Wolf, the most eminent author of the former German Democratic Republic, published the novel Medea. Voices. It takes up themes which have been worked and re-worked in European literature since Euripides’ tragedy, and which go back into pre-literary myth. Medea has many guises: she can be seen as the monstrous mother; as the victim of Jason’s fickle nature; or as the perpetual ‘stranger’, the woman who has given up all her origins,…
Germany's War in China: Media Coverage and Political Myth
This essay examines the coverage of the Boxer uprising in the German mainstream press in 1900 as a shaper and reflection of public opinion. Through comparative analyses of contrasting strategies of reporting in three major daily papers with different readerships, the Kölnische Zeitung , the Frankfurter Zeitung and the Berliner Morgenpost , it shows how certain events emerge as ‘key experiences’, resulting in a surprisingly convergent, patriotic n…
German Colonial Fiction on China: The Boxer Uprising of 1900
This essay examines popular fiction from the years 1900-1902 that either bears directly on the Boxer Uprising or takes advantage of the vogue generated by the intense public interest in it. It focuses on the composition of the image of China that emerges from these texts, and, more importantly, on the conceptual structures underlying it. In this way it may serve as a testing ground for some aspects of Edward Said's theory of Orientalism and more …
Germany: Myth and Apologia in Christa Wolf’s Novel Medea. Voices
In 1995, Christa Wolf, the most eminent author of the former German Democratic Republic, published the novel Medea. Voices. It takes up themes which have been worked and re-worked in European literature since Euripides’ tragedy, and which go back into pre-literary myth. Medea has many guises: she can be seen as the monstrous mother; as the victim of Jason’s fickle nature; or as the perpetual ‘stranger’, the woman who has given up all her origins,…
German Colonial Fiction on China: The Boxer Uprising of 1900
This essay examines popular fiction from the years 1900-1902 that either bears directly on the Boxer Uprising or takes advantage of the vogue generated by the intense public interest in it. It focuses on the composition of the image of China that emerges from these texts, and, more importantly, on the conceptual structures underlying it. In this way it may serve as a testing ground for some aspects of Edward Said's theory of Orientalism and more …
Germany's War in China: Media Coverage and Political Myth
This essay examines the coverage of the Boxer uprising in the German mainstream press in 1900 as a shaper and reflection of public opinion. Through comparative analyses of contrasting strategies of reporting in three major daily papers with different readerships, the Kölnische Zeitung , the Frankfurter Zeitung and the Berliner Morgenpost , it shows how certain events emerge as ‘key experiences’, resulting in a surprisingly convergent, patriotic n…
The Boxers in Contemporary Chinese and German Fiction: Mo Yan and Gerhard Seyfried
Germany’s colonial adventures in China have emerged increasingly over the last decade from a century of silence and neglect by historians, and in the wake of this revival the literary potential of this epoch has once more been exploited. Gerhard Seyfried’s novel Gelber Wind oder Der Aufstand der Boxer (Yellow Wind or The Boxer Uprising, 2008) has 640 pages and is exhaustively researched.1 What is claimed on the dust-jacket, that Seyfried’s work i…
On the Genesis of Colonial Geography: China in Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 1855–1914
This essay examines representations of China in Germany's most influential geographical journal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a view to establishing whether first‐hand accounts by explorers revealed a fundamentally different China from the abstract generalisations of the eighteenth century and in Hegel's philosophy of history. It charts the transition from one mythicising view of China as existing in a state of stagnat…
Transforming the East: A New Research Project in Australia
The Jesuit translations of the Confucian canon not only provided one of the first European windows into Chinese culture but also changed the intellectual and cultural history of Europe. This paper introduces a new project, which examines the rich history of these translations and their dissemination, and interrogates how Confucian ideas influenced the development of Enlightenment intellectual culture, analysing the personal and textual networks t…
Wilhelm Von Humboldt and Heinrich Von Kleist: Imagining the State in the Wake of the French Revolution
Scholarship has paid scant attention to affinities between the thought of Wilhelm von Humboldt and that of Heinrich von Kleist. Both were, at different times, fascinated by the aftermath of the French Revolution and its influence on the shape of contemporary Europe. Humboldt's essays of the 1790s plead the cause of individual ‘Bildung’ against the hegemony of an interventionist state. His verdict on the new French constitution is ultimately pessi…
Translating the East: An introduction
China frisst Menschen«
Richard Huelsenbeck’s 1930 novel China frisst Menschen (China devours People) combines travelogue, avant-garde formal experimentation, and anti-colonial reflection into a text that resists conventional genre classifications. This article shows how Huelsenbeck employs aesthetic strategies to destabilise colonial patterns of perception. The China depicted in the novel appears less as a concrete cultural space than as a projection surface on which t…
History (8 works) · History (7 works) · Art (5 works) · China (5 works) · German (5 works) · German Colonialism and Identity Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works)