Comments on: The Nazis Distrust of Sinology http://www.chinarhyming.com/2008/12/02/the-nazis-distrust-of-sinology/ A gallimaufry of random China history and research interests Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:00:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Oliver http://www.chinarhyming.com/2008/12/02/the-nazis-distrust-of-sinology/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Oliver Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:35:00 +0000 http://www.chinarhyming.com/?p=46#comment-78 German Wikipedia has no more than 1 sentence: "Das Exil vieler Chinawissenschaftler in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus schadete der Sinologie nachhaltig." "A great number of sinologists was in exile during the Nazi period, which did lasting damage to sinology." It also mentions that almost a quarter of all German sinologists in the post-war era were trained in Eastern Germany, then relocated to Western Germany. Evidently the renewed Eastern German interest in China was due to a large part to the fact that post-1949 China was communist.<br/><br/>Which, of course, still doesn't answer the question why the Nazis hated sinologist.<br/><br/>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinologie#Geschichte_der_Sinologie German Wikipedia has no more than 1 sentence: “Das Exil vieler Chinawissenschaftler in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus schadete der Sinologie nachhaltig.” “A great number of sinologists was in exile during the Nazi period, which did lasting damage to sinology.” It also mentions that almost a quarter of all German sinologists in the post-war era were trained in Eastern Germany, then relocated to Western Germany. Evidently the renewed Eastern German interest in China was due to a large part to the fact that post-1949 China was communist.

Which, of course, still doesn’t answer the question why the Nazis hated sinologist.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinologie#Geschichte_der_Sinologie

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