A book of the magnitude and scope of Sven Trakulhun’s Asiatische Revolutionen is only published every few decades. A similar work appeared precisely twenty years ago: Jürgen Osterhammel’s Die Entzauberung Asiens.1 After the success of Osterhammel’s The Transformation of the World, the Entzauberung was republished first in German (Beck, 2010) and a translation was published by Princeton University last year.2 That two such books can coexist is again best demonstrated by Osterhammel: his 2009 Transformation of the World was published only five years after Chris Bayly’s equally ambitious The Birth of the Modern World.3 Just as Bayly and Osterhammel complement each other in their wide-ranging histories of the global nineteenth century, so Trakulhun and Osterhammel match in their accounts of European perceptions of Asia over the long eighteenth century: both Trakulhun and Bayly provide an argument-driven counterpart to Osterhammel’s more panoramic approach. There is anobvious connection toOsterhammel inTrakulhun’swork. Submitted in an earlier version as a habilitation at Osterhammel’s own institution, the University of Konstanz, Trakulhun’s book openly acknowledges this debt. For Trakulhun shares Osterhammel’s main findings: before the nineteenth-century’s derogatory view of a static, backward, anddespoticAsia, andafter a longperiodof uncomprehending marvel at a distant fabled Orient, eighteenth-century Europe saw a brief period of genuine interest in Asia on terms of equality or at least commensurability, that far exceeded a simple depiction of Asia as a projection screen for otherness. Both Trakulhun and Osterhammel underline the pan-European nature of this phenomenon, stressing the importance of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism. Osterhammel’s findings, however, serve asTrakulhun’s startingpoint.His guidingquestion is:

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Asiatische Revolutionen: Europa und der Aufstieg und Fall asiatischer Imperien (1600–1830) / Asian Revolutions: Europe and the Rise and the Rise and Fall of Asian Empires (1600–1830) by Sven Trakulhun

像 Sven Trakulhun 的 Asiatische Revolutionen 那样规模和范围的书每隔几十年才出版一次。二十年前出现了类似的作品：Jürgen Osterhammel 的 Die Entzauberung Asiens。1 在 Osterhammel 的 The Transformation of the World 取得成功之后，Entzauberung 首次以德语重新出版（贝克，2010 年），去年普林斯顿大学出版了译本。 2 Osterhammel 再次证明了这两本书可以共存：他 2009 年的《世界转型》在克里斯·贝利 (Chris Bayly) 同样雄心勃勃的现代世界的诞生 5 年后出版。3 正如贝利 (Bayly) 和奥斯特哈默尔 (Osterhammel) 在广泛的Trakulhun 和 Osterhammel 在他们对 18 世纪漫长的欧洲人对亚洲的看法的描述中匹配了全球 19 世纪的历史：Trakulhun 和 Bayly 都为 Osterhammel 的全景方法提供了一个论证驱动的对应物。特拉库伦的作品与奥斯特哈默尔有着明显的联系。Trakulhun 的书作为 Osterhammel 自己的机构康斯坦茨大学的早期版本提交，公开承认了这笔债务。Trakulhun 分享了奥斯特哈默尔的主要发现：在 19 世纪对静态、落后和专制亚洲的贬损观点之前，以及在对遥远的传说中的东方长期无法理解的惊叹之后，18 世纪的欧洲看到了一段短暂的时期，对亚洲的平等产生了真正的兴趣或者至少是可通约性，这远远超过了将亚洲简单地描述为他者的投影屏幕。Trakulhun 和 Osterhammel 都强调了这种现象的泛欧性质，强调启蒙世界主义的重要性。然而，奥斯特哈默尔的发现是特拉库伦的出发点。他的指导性问题是：