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In 1965, Joseph R. Levenson began working on a new trilogy to
follow his earlier study of modern Chinese intellectual history,
Confucian China and Its Modern Fate. By 1969, he had already
sketched out basic outlines of the work, which was to be called
Provincialism, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism. It was to consist
of three volumes: one sounding the general themes of the
arrangement, and two other elaborating its motifs. Accidental death
tragically cut short Levenson's life and the preparation of the
work. He did leave behind, however, an embryo of it in the form of
this book, Revolution and Cosmopolitanism. Based upon a careful
analysis of a wide selection of Western plays translated into
Chinese during the twentieth century, Revolution and
Cosmopolitanism tries to set the Communist Cultural Revolution into
a new kind of historical perspective. Beginning with the demise of
a Confucian China which "new youth" intellectuals found too
provincial for their palates, Levenson shows how those same
cosmopolitans in the 1920s and 1920s damed later Communist
intellectuals of the 1950s for being to receptive to non-Chinese
values. As Red Guards attacked symbols of a feudal Confucian past
and a bourgeois foreign present, China slipped into a new sort of
provincialism. Levenson analyzes their transformation with profound
subtlety. Convinced that revolutionary China cannot forever seal
itself off from universal cosmopolitan influences, he expresses
sympathy throughout with the dilemma of rootless intellectuals in a
society searching for a particular non-intellectual identity. This
title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1971.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1969.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1969.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1976.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1976.
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