“最后离开的第一批”:富布莱特学者雷德斐尔德的中国之旅

“The First In-Last Out”:Fulbright Scholar Robert Redfield’s China Trip

1948至1949年度来华访问的第一批富布赖特学者是中美两国文化关系史上的一个特殊群体,他们不仅亲身经历了中国政局与中美关系最动荡的时刻,也见证了许多知识精英与普通民众在这场巨大历史转折中的心态和表现。本文依据档案考察并详细叙述了其中一位代表人物芝加哥大学人类学家罗伯特·雷德斐尔德的访华之行,以期为我们观察20世纪中叶革命形势下的中国社会和中美关系变化提供一个较为新颖的视角。

The first Fulbright scholars visiting China in 1948-49 was a special group of people in the history of China-United States cultural exchange.They not only went through the most turbulent moments of Chinese politics and China-U.S.relations,but also recorded what many local intellectual elites or ordinary people have thought and done during that time.In this essay,I try to explore the story about one of these first Fulbright scholars,a well-known American anthropologist Robert Redfield’s China Trip.It may serve to provide us with a relatively new perspective on Chinese society and China-U.S.relations in the 1949 Revolution.