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A travel guides’ view on a (post)colonial place: Tsingtau/Qingdao, China

Travel guides and travel reports constitute an important source for the generation and spread of popular geopolitical epistemes and assumptions. With regard to colonial attitudes and their possible perpetuation, it is therefore of great interest what kind of information such texts convey regarding (post)colonial places, and how they contextualize it. The paper compares descriptions of Qingdao (Tsingtau), a German colonized territory between 1897 and 1914, in travel guides and related material from colonial and postcolonial times and in different European languages. It investigates what differences can be found between these descriptions in relation to time, language, and medium (print or online) of publication. Of particular interest is the question whether, and in what ways, colonial perspectives are perpetuated in present-day (especially German) travel literature.

A travel guides’ view on a (post)colonial place: Tsingtau/Qingdao, China

Urheber*in: Stolberg, Doris

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Language
Englisch

Subject
Reiseführer
Tsingtau
Kolonialismus
Postkolonialismus
Kolonie
China
Reisebericht
Geopolitik
Reiseliteratur
Allgemeinwissen
Sprache

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Stolberg, Doris
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Helsinki : International Association for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics
(when)
2021-07-30

URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-105240
Last update
06.03.2025, 9:00 AM CET

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Associated

  • Stolberg, Doris
  • Helsinki : International Association for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics

Time of origin

  • 2021-07-30

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