Contents

pp.：  7 – 8

Introduction

pp.：  9 – 18

Chapter One What was Sinology?

pp.：  19 – 52

China As Career

pp.：  20 – 21

The Research of Bernhard Karlgren

pp.：  22 – 23

Inflating China

pp.：  24 – 27

Race and Empire

pp.：  28 – 30

Sex, Power and Karlgren’s Alter Ego

pp.：  31 – 39

Striking at Mediocrity

pp.：  40 – 41

The Backbone of the Ruling Class

pp.：  42 – 44

Language and Power

pp.：  45 – 49

Sinophilia

pp.：  50 – 52

Chapter Two Archaeology and the Western Origin of China

pp.：  53 – 74

The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

pp.：  54 – 56

Johan “China Gunnar” Andersson

pp.：  57 – 57

Unearthing a Chinese Stone Age

pp.：  58 – 59

The Mandarin Archaeologist

pp.：  60 – 63

The Great Urn Traffic in Lanzhou

pp.：  64 – 66

The Archaeologist As Official of the Chinese Empire

pp.：  67 – 71

Orientalism in China

pp.：  72 – 74

Chapter Three The Swedish Chinese Expedition

pp.：  75 – 94

Sven Hedin under Attack in Beijing

pp.：  77 – 80

The Despot of Xinjiang

pp.：  81 – 83

Meeting Chiang Kai-shek

pp.：  84 – 88

Islamophobia Along the New Silk Road

pp.：  89 – 94

Chapter Four Empire and Ethnography

pp.：  95 – 108

The Plundering of Mongolian Culture

pp.：  98 – 103

The Golden Temple

pp.：  104 – 108

Chapter Five The Karlbeck Syndicate

pp.：  109 – 128

A Swedish Crown Prince in the Forbidden Palace

pp.：  109 – 110

Railway Constructor and Amateur Collector

pp.：  111 – 112

Collecting As Entrée to the Upper Class

pp.：  113 – 115

Secretly Collecting for Western Museums

pp.：  116 – 118

Treasure Seeker in China

pp.：  119 – 122

China’s Cultural History under Threat

pp.：  123 – 124

Back in Stockholm

pp.：  125 – 128

Chapter Six Distorting History

pp.：  129 – 136

The Peking Man Discovery

pp.：  133 – 136

Chapter Seven Osvald Sirén’s Spiritual Far East

pp.：  137 – 162

Snubbed by Feng Yuxiang, Received by the Emperor

pp.：  143 – 145

Starting a New Life in Paris

pp.：  146 – 147

Smuggling via Diplomatic Pouch

pp.：  148 – 151

Modern Buddhism, Fascist Scholars, Chinese Art

pp.：  152 – 157

Old Times and New

pp.：  158 – 162

Chapter Eight Swedish Maoism

pp.：  163 – 192

Political Pilgrims

pp.：  164 – 166

The Communist League Marxist-Leninists (KFML)

pp.：  167 – 170

The Swedish-Chinese Friendship Association

pp.：  171 – 173

Sinology Hijacked

pp.：  174 – 179

Using foreigners’ Strength to Propagandize for China

pp.：  180 – 182

China’s Financial Support

pp.：  183 – 183

Utopia

pp.：  184 – 187

Occidentalism

pp.：  188 – 192

Chapter Nine Report from a Chinese Village

pp.：  193 – 206

Another Career in China

pp.：  194 – 199

China’s Friend

pp.：  200 – 204

Chairman Jan Myrdal

pp.：  205 – 206

Chapter Ten Anti-Imperialism?

pp.：  207 – 228

Revisiting the Silk Road

pp.：  212 – 216

Myrdal avec Hedin

pp.：  217 – 218

“O My Friends, There is No Friend”

pp.：  219 – 223

Saluting the Yellow Emperor

pp.：  224 – 228

Sinophilia: A Conclusion

pp.：  229 – 238

References

pp.：  239 – 248

Index

pp.：  249 – 252