1 Ye Jun, “Shijia yishi yu yiguo duixiang—Zhongguo xueshu shiye li de aoguo wenxue zhi chengli,” Tongji daxue xuebao shehui kexue ban 17, no. 4 (2006): 2.
2 For example, we do not include the persistent discussion on the Austrian School of Economics in post-Mao China. It is partly due to our belief that in the Chinese context the “Austrian School of Economics” has become a code word for many things other than Austria or economic theories. The Chinese usage of the term needs its own analyst.
3 About the publishing of “grey books,” see “Huipishu, huangpishu: Yidai ren de jingshen shiliang,” 14 July 2008, <news.xinhuanet.com/book/2008-07/14/content_8542369.htm> (29 Dec. 2010). For a more detailed account on the “grey books” and its literature counterparts, “yellow books,” see Shen Zhanyun, Huipishu, huangpishu (Guangzhou: Huacheng chubanshe, 2007).
4 “Huipishu, huangpishu.”
5 Editor’s preface to Otto Bauer, Baoweier wenxuan (Otto Bauer Anthology), ed. Yin Xuyi (Beijing: Renmin chubanshe, 2008), 1-2.
6 Yin Xuyi, “Aodili makesi zhuyi,” Dangdai shijie yu shehui zhuyi 3 (1981): 112-29.
7 Ibid., 128.
8 For example, Chen Lin, “Aodili makeshi zhuyi gaishu,” Dangdai shijie yu shehui zhuyi 4 (1991): 7-13; idem., “Qiantan Aodili makesi zhuyi yu minzhu shehui zhuyi zai lilun shang de luoji lianxi,” Dangdai shijie yu shehui zhuyi 2 (1992): 65-69. Song Yunxia,“Shehui minzhu dang yu minzhu shehui zhuyi,” Lilun xuekan 2 (1990): 37-38.
9 Translations of European and American writings and Chinese-authored pieces on related topics are too numerous to mention here. Austria is frequently featured in these studies.
10 Wang Haixia, Aodili Shehuiminzhudang Yanjiu (Beijing: Beijing guangbo xueyuan chubanshe, 2003). See, for example, pp. 43-46, 49, 80, 88, 96 when Lenin is cited.
11 Bauer, Baoweier wenxuan, 1-2.
12 Rudolf Hilferding, Jinrong ziben: ziben zhuyi zuixin fazhan de yanjiu, trans. Fumin et al. (Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan, 1994).
13 Wang, Aodili Shehuiminzhudang Yanjiu, i, iii, 200-03; “Renmin wenku chuban qianyan,” in Bauer, Baoweier wenxuan, i-ii.
14 Feng Zhi, “Qiantan aodili wenxue,” Waiguo wenxue pinglun 3 (1991): 25.
15 Translator’s note to the first edition (1991), in Stefan Zweig, Zuori de shijie: yige ouzhouren de huiyi (Die Welt von Gestern), trans. Shu Changshan et al.(Guilin: Guangxi shifan daxue chubanshe, 2004), 348-49.
16 Ye, “Shijia yishi yu yiguo duixiang,” 4. On Rilke’s popularity and reception in China, see the very informative website dedicated to all things about Rilke translation and research in China, Lierke zhongwen wang (with its original German title Übertragung und Forschung über Rainer Maria Rilke ), <rilkecn. com/default. asp> (4 Jan. 2011). In Taiwan, the influential poetry journal Li (Bamboo Hat ) dedicated an entire issue to Rilke, and the most important Taiwanese Rilke translator Li Kuixian, himself a leading poet, contributed an essay “Lierke zai taiwan” (Rilke in Taiwan), Li, 163 (1990): 127-37.
17 For a list of current and former CASS researchers who publish on Austrian literature, see <foreignliterature.cass.cn/chinese/NewsInfo.asp?NewsId=1070> (accessed 30 Dec. 2010).
18 Feng, “Qiantan aodili wenxue,” 25.
19 Zhang Songjian, “Lierke zai zhongguo: chuanbo yu yingxiang chutan, 1917-1949,” from Lierke zhongwen wang, <rilkecn.com/text.asp?ID=1688> (accessed 4 Jan. 2011).
20 Han Ruixiang and Ma Wentao, 20 shiji aodili ruishi deyu wenxueshi (Qingdao: Qingdao chubanshe, 1998).
21 Ye, “Shijia yishi yu yiguo duixiangi,” 2, 5-7. The quote is from p. 5.
22 Journal articles on Austrian history that appear in China often lack either substance or originality, or both. Even the ones published by leading academic journals do not fare much better. Perhaps the isolated development of the Chinese world history community is partly to blame; the old party lines on the “correct” understanding of world history certainly did not help. Another possible reason is the belated—and still ongoing—development of formal and informal academic standards and norms in the historical profession.
23 The former is based on the fourth edition of the Zöllner book. It is translated by Li Shumao, Du Wentang, and Lin Rongyuan, and published by Shangwu yinshuguan in Beijing. The latter is translated by Huang Yuwen and published by Taipei’s Maitian chubanshe in 2002, years after the Japanese translation appeared (1983). Moreover, the Schorske book is translated and read not as an Austrian Studies title. It is marketed to and received by the Taiwanese historical profession and other Taiwanese humanities scholars as an example of innovative cultural-intellectual history.
24 Eva Priester, Aodili jianshi, trans. Tao Liang and Zhang Fu (Beijing: Sanlian shudian, 1972). Even so the book was still labeled as “internal-circulation only,” readers were exhorted on the title page that if they decided to cite it, they should reference “the original version.” The reason for this was not clear. However, the publisher never made it clear what “the original version” meant: Was it the German original? Or the abridged Russian translation on which the Chinese translation was based? Actually, down to the present day the ill-developed citation/reference practices and standards still plague the mainland Chinese academic community, as attested by many contentious controversies over accusations of plagiarism in recent years.
25 Zhao Tangshou, Aodili wenhuashi (Beijing: Beijing daxue chubanshe, 2002).
26 Hao Yanhong, “Daqing wangchao yu aodili weiyena shibohui—yuanzi qinggong dangan de jizai,” Dangan chunciou 8 (2010): 15-17. This article comes out in the journal’s special issue on World Expos in celebration of the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
27 Li Xuetong,“Zhanfuying zhong de meihao shiguang,” Kanlishi 6 (2010): 78-83; Li Xuetong and Gu Weiming, eds., Zhongguo deao zhanfuying (Fuzhou: Fujian jiaoyu chubanshe, 2010).
28 David Kranzler, Japanese, Nazis, and Jews: The Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai, 1938-1945 (New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1976). Kranzler began his research in the 1950s.
29 Tang Peiji et al., Shanghai youtairen (Shanghai: Shanghai sanlian, 1992).
30 For example, the Chinese translation of the Kranzler book came out in 1991. Translation of memoir pieces can be found, for example, in Pan Guang and Li Peidong, eds., Youtairen yi shanghai (Shanghai: Shanghai zhengxie wenshi ziliao bianjibu, 1995).
31 Wang Jian, Shanghai youtairen shehuishenghuoshi (Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe, 2008).
32 Rao Lihua, Shanghai youtai jishibao yanjiu (Beijing: Xinhua chubanshe, 2003).
33 Xu Buzeng, Xunfang youtairen (Shanghai: Shanghai shehuikexueyuan chubanshe, 2007).
34 Tang Yating, Shanghai youtai shequ de yinyue shenghuo (Shanghai: Shanghai yinyuexueyuan chubanshe, 2007).
35 More scholarly: Pan Guang and Wang Jian, Yigeban shiji yilai de shanghai youtairen: youtai minzu shi shang de dongfang yiye (Beijing: Shehuikexue wenxian chubanshe, 2002); and the bilingual picture book that targets the international lay audience: Pan Guang, ed., Youtairen zai shanghai (Shanghai: Shanghai huabao chubanshe, 1995, 2005 rev. ed.).
36 Bi Chunfu, “Chongqing guomin zhengfu anzhi taowang youtairen jihua chouyi shimo,” Minguo dangan shiliao 3 (1993): 17-21. The plan amounted to nothing more than some preliminary promotions because of the lack of sufficient funding.
37 For example, Xu Buzeng, “Cong weiyena dao shanghai—Ji jiwei cengjing zai shanghai shenghuo guo de aodili youtairen,” Shanghai dangan 5 (1992): 52-55.
38 Huang Yao and Zhang Huixin, Yige daxie de ren: Luo shengte zai zhongguo (Beijing: Jiefangjun chubanshe, 1992); Zhonggong linyi diwei dangshi ziliao zhengji weiyuanhui and Zhonggong junanxian weiyuanhui, eds., Luo shente zai zhongguo (Jinan: Shandong renmin chubanshe, 1992); Wang Xianglian and Sun Jianhong, Luo shengte (Beijing: Zhonggong dangshi chubanshe, 2005); Ma Zhixin, 9615 hao qiutu (Beijing: Zuojia chubanshe, 2005).
39 Gerd Kaminski, ed., Zhongguo de dashidai: Luoshengte zaihua shouji, 1941-1949, trans. Du Wengtan (Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshee, 2003). The translation of Gerd Kaminski’s Rosenfeld biography is published as Luo shengte zhuan, trans. Du Wentang and Li Chuansong (Beijing: Lüyou jiaoyu chubanshe, 1995). Its original title is General Luo genannt Langnase: Das abenteuerliche Leben des Dr. med. Jakob Rosenfeld was published in 1993.
40 Xu, Xunfang youtairen, 176, 178.
41 Pan and Wang, Yigeban shiji yilai de shanghai youtairen, 1.
42 Pan, ed., Youtairen zai shanghai, 119. The quote is taken from the English original of this bilingual book.
43 The story of Fanny Ebner, an Austrian who married a politically problematic Chinese husband but stayed in China after 1949, has been made into a feature film, Am anderen Ende der Brücke (dir. Hu Mei, 2002). Unlike some other non-Chinese spouses, she survives the turmoil.
44 The contrast is most obvious between the still accusatory and judgmental tone of Tang et al., Shanghai youtairen (1992) and the generally neutral, sometimes even grudgingly admiring one in Wang, Shanghai youtairen shehuishenghuoshi (2008).
45 The German Studies Association in the United States, for example, has been organizing and encouraging dedicated German-Asian panels at its annual conference for several years. The 2008 GSA presidential address is a discussion on “Transnational Approaches and Their Challenges.” The German academic community’s “transnational turn” begins even earlier.
46 For example, though its individual points can be challenged or are in need of revision, Gerd Kaminski and Else Unterrieder’s encyclopedic Von Österreichern und Chinesen (Vienna: Europa Verlag, 1980) as a whole is hard to replace.
47 And of course, vice versa: how China and the Chinese become (or fail to become) part of an Austrian’s mental cosmos? How does it shape his/her behavior as a consumer? This is especially pertinent amid the current global “China fever.”
48 An example in this vein—though not exactly an Austrian topic—is a first journalistic sketch on psychoanalysis in contemporary China: Evan Osnos, “Meet Dr. Freud: Does Psychoanalysis Have a Future in an Authoritarian State?” The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2011, 54-63.
