Vortrag: "Ausgerechnet zu den Chinesen..." Deutschsprachige Abenteurerinnen in China

In the organizer's words:

In their book "Ausgerechnet zu den Chinesen... - Deutschsprachige Abenteurerinnen in China" (2023), the two authors Martina Bölck and Hilke Veth portray a total of 18 women who lived in China for long periods of time or undertook extensive journeys there.

They tell the life stories of the daring women who set off for China between the Opium Wars in the mid-19th century and the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. As doctors, journalists, missionaries, writers, art collectors, scientists, spies and confectioners, they lived and worked in various regions of the East Asian country. They lived through the Opium Wars, the German colonies, the Second World War and the founding of the People's Republic of China, bearing witness to their everyday lives, their historical, social and cultural environment - and also to their respective prejudices and how they dealt with them.
Their portraits form a historical mosaic of one of the largest countries in the world, whose history and present are still only perceived to a limited extent in Europe.

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