Saluting the Yellow Emperor

A Case of Swedish Sinography

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ID23509688
AuthorsPerry Johansson (0000-0002-8754-980X)
Year2012
Pages252
Publication date2012-01-20
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSaluting the Yellow Emperor (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004226395
OpenAlexW4248202947
Open LibraryOL29705977M
ISBN9789004226395
LanguageEN
Citations received5

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.

Ancient history · Art · Emperor · Chinese history and philosophy · European Cultural and National Identity · History · Landscape and Cultural Studies · 20th century · Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978) · china · civilization · Excavations (Archaeology) · Historiography · Jan Myrdal · Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874-1960) · Sinologists · Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952) · Sweden · To 221 B.C

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