世界主义与20世纪中国另类现代性

Cosmopolitism and the Alternative Modernity in the Twentieth-Century China

在众声喧哗的中国现代史的论述里,一些较为和缓中道的"非革命性"的声音被掩盖。本文旨在检视世界主义在中国20世纪的话语和实践,审视20世纪上半叶世界主义的公共文化在上海的形成,重新梳理并回顾上世纪两位知名作家周作人和林语堂,在应对中国当时的文化问题时,他们另类的主张被拒斥为保守落后、资产阶级、颓废迂腐。然而,借重历史的"后见之明",我们不妨对中国的现代性多作探究,也对当时的思想家有更持平的判断和评价。

In the cacophony of writings about the modern Chinese history,moderate and rational‘non-revolutionary’voices are covered up.This article intends to examine the discourse and practice of cosmopolitanism in the twentieth-century China by looking at how it was formed in Shanghai with its public culture in the first half of the twentieth century and by re-sorting out and reviewing the alternative views held by Zhou Zuoren and Lin Yutang,two well-known writers in the last century,in relation to the then cultural issues in China,as these views were denounced as conservative and backward,bourgeois,decadent and pedantic.Now,with the hindsight of history,we might explore the Chinese modernity more and hold fairer judgements of and commentaries on the then thinkers.