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.
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| Author: | Doris StolbergORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-105240 |
| URL: | https://iacpl.net/jopol/issues/journal-of-postcolonial-linguistics-52021/a-travel-guides-view-on-a-postcolonial-place/ |
| ISSN: | 2670-1421 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics |
| Publisher: | International Association for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics |
| Place of publication: | Helsinki |
| Editor: | Susana S. Fernández, Carsten Levisen |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/07/30 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | Tsingtau; colonialism; popular knowledge; postcolonialism; travel guides |
| GND Keyword: | Allgemeinwissen; China; Geopolitik; Kolonialismus; Kolonie; Postkolonialismus; Reisebericht; Reiseführer; Reiseliteratur; Tsingtau |
| Issue: | 5 |
| First Page: | 81 |
| Last Page: | 117 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Angewandte Linguistik |
| Program areas: | L1: Lexikographie und Sprachdokumentation |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International |