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Abstract: Pan Jing studied in Paris and stayed in Europe in the late 1900s and the first half of the 1910s. Despite being an unprepossessing intellectual, Pan left dynamic accounts of his life in China and Europe. This article highlights the significance of Pan and many other seemingly obscure overseas graduates marginal to the elite historiography of crosscultural communication and social transformation. It provides a case study of Pan’s European experiences, transnational horizons and efforts, and reflections on European and Chinese societies before the late 1930s. The encounter of what Pan had experienced in Europe and China, entangled with patriotism, Eurocentrism, racism, anti-imperialism, anti-communism, and emotions, complicated his ideology, and resulted in his ambivalence toward both Europe and China. His mental struggles and individualized narratives of Europe involve his concerns about the reality and future of his own country in an age of dramatic change. The experiences and ideas of such border-crossing figures enable a polyvocal understanding of the painful transformation of Chinese society and even globalization. |
