Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Transnational Networks: The Chenbao Fujuan, 1921-1928

Xiaoqun Xu

《The China Review An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China》 4卷1期 (2004/05) Pp. 145-173

摘要

Chinese awareness of and participation in the transnational and global connections in the modern (colonial) world took place amidst tensions among various intellectual responses, such as cosmopolitanism, anarchism, pacifism, nationalism, and re-tooled Confucianism; and the tension was often framed in terms of the China-West and East-West dyads, discursive constructs that were employed and debated over by Chinese intellectuals as well as non-Chinese. Examining and contextualizing the Chenbao Fujuan's coverage of the visits and ideas of British philosopher Bertrand Russell, Russian Esperanto teacher Vasilij Eroshenko, and Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore, this essay concludes that in the various Chinese reactions to those men and their ideas one is able to observe manifestations and actualization of the cultural power relations in which the very transnational circulation of ideas was embedded, as well as the agency of Chinese intellectuals in participating in such transnational networks.